Popular Woodworking 2002-04 № 127, страница 17
Double-duty Dovetail Jig I was intrigued with Nick Engler's Ingenious Jigs article from December 2001 that showed you how to make a jig for cutting perfect dados in the sides of case pieces. After my last project, where the routing was the most repetitious and boring part of the piece, I thought there should be an easier way. I wasn't happy with the dados made using my router table, radial arm saw or table saw. I don't like to take the time to make a jig, even though some have been proven helpful and many times reusable. In looking around my shop, my eye alighted on my commercial dovetail jig. It had all the properties of the jig from the article: a good straight sturdy hold-down clamp with a wide throat to accommodate wide boards or even multiple boards needing the same dado. The clamp that holds boards in the jig makes a perfect fence for my router. When running multiple boards, I did take the precaution of clamping the pieces together with another clamp to prevent them from slipping in the jig, as many times slight variances of wood thickness will allow this to happen. Roberta Keefe Lexington, Kentucky Make a Tenon Square From Scrap A router mounted in a table with a straight bit can be used to cut nice tenons. But usually these tenons are on the end of a narrow board and require a miter gauge to hold the board. Unfortunately my router table lacks a miter slot. However, a square block of wood serves just as well. Cut a square block of wood approximately 12" x 12". Butt it against the router fence and clamp the board to be tenoned to the square board, keeping the tenon end also flush against the router fence as shown in the drawing. This has the added advantage of providing a backer board, which also reduces tearout. Bill Law Cincinnati, Ohio Custom Scrap Wood Clamps Recently, I had to glue up many slender pieces of wood to make tapers for a pencil post bed that had revealed layers. Because the posts were almost 8' long, I needed a wealth of clamps that I didn't have. I came up with this design in order to save money, and I have since used these clamps on many other projects with great success and only a little cost. PW Yoko Sorensen Raleigh, North Carolina |
