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   OLDWING | Dec 24, 2002 02:56pm | #1

   I don't have a photo (no digital cam) but I did make a tenon jig based on a plan from FWW a lot of years ago.  If you pay attention to detail - make the square things square and the face of the jig perfectly perpendicular to the tablesaw slot - it will work very well.  Mine has worked fine for at least ten years. 

   Bruce

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   UncleDunc | Dec 24, 2002 11:13pm | #2

   One thing I really liked about the tenoning jig I remember seeing in FWW was that the face angle was adjustable, so you didn't have to take extraordinary care making it. Just make it pretty close and then adjust it to prefection.

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   aakBoston | Dec 25, 2002 06:45am | #5

   Does anyone know which issue of FWW that jig appeared in?

   Thanks

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   JeffKurtz | Dec 25, 2002 12:07am | #3

   Rich,

   Some of the old style Delta tenoning jigs are still available (new) at the candy stores.  I just got mine a month or so ago and really like it.  What struck me about the new Delta and the Jet was the poor quality/sloppiness of the clamping screw.

   Jeff

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   rkkelly36 | Dec 25, 2002 06:03am | #4

   Where have you found the old style jig still available?

   Thanks,

   kevin

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   JeffKurtz | Dec 25, 2002 07:01am | #6

   Wood Worker's Depot, Green Bay.

   http://www.woodworkersdepot.com/

   They had quite a few in stock.

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   Telemike | Dec 25, 2002 09:25am | #7

   I bought the delta tenon jig several years ago for abourt $90.  It had numerous flaws that took some fixing to use:

   1.  Someone had run a blanchard grinder into the base at an angle and mashed a lumpy edge of cast iron on the periphery of the mishap that had to be stoned off before mating parts would move over it. 

   2.  Someone was in a hurry to ease the edges of the bar that goes into the mitre slot and guides the jig.  They mashed the metal and it didn't fit any mitre slots (even for my friend's unisaw, not to mention my old sears).  It again needed to be ground and stoned to fit.

   3.  The hole for the screw that holds the clamp in place was threaded for all of an 1/8th inch.  Not enought to hold the clamp.  I finished it myself.

   4.  They affixed a thin embosed sheet metal label with the product ID and info.  But, they put it on sloppliy at an angle.  A corner sticking out from the assembly gave me a 1/4" deep 1 1/2" slice on the heel of my hand that I closed with butterfly bandages - I still have a scar.  It really needed stitches, but I was going on an overnight ski trip and couldn't afford the ER time.  Delta ducked a bullet on this one because this is the kind of happening that the trial lawyers association (rightly) drools over.

   All in all, after a couple of hours work, the device works pretty well and would work better with a delta saw.  However, I still cut most of my shoulders on a huge Hitachi resaw.

   My first delta.  I'm buying a cabinet saw this winter; a grizzley I think, not a delta.