Woodworking Jigs
How to Cut Molding on Beam Ends Using a Jigsaw
Cutting moldings on wooden rafters and crossbeams with a jigsaw doesn't seem like the best idea at first. But you'll be surprised. Clearly, the...
I make a better Jigsaw Fence to Cut Straight with the jigsaw
Not long ago I had made a simple side fence for my jigsaw that allows me to make straight cuts in wood boards. Now...
Lateral jigsaw fence for precision straight cuts in wood with the jigsaw
Yes, I know that the jig saw we just bought comes with its own side guide, the same as any hand-held circular saw we...
Woodworing jig for vertical miter cutting with the jigsaw
After making the guide with bearings for the jigsaw blade that allows me to make a perfect vertical cut at 90 degrees in wood...
Portable jig for straight vertical cuts with the jigsaw
When cutting wood with the jigsaw, sometimes, more than might seem normal to us, we find that the vertical cut is not straight at...
How to cut boards to make them exactly identical
Sometimes, for some of our woodworking projects we need to cut boards to be exactly identical. And even if we have a circular saw...
How to use Adirondack chair woodworking templates
In a previous post we saw how to make the woodworking templates from the Adirondack chair plans. Those plans were on paper at 1:1...
How to make woodworking templates from Adirondack chair plans
A few days ago I bought some plans of an Adirondack chair, which is a really nice and really comfortable garden chair. These typical...
How to make a wooden lamp with hangers
To see the whole process on how to make the wooden lamp shade using hangers do not miss the videos. In the first video...
Impossible dovetail joint with curved pins and tails
Let's see how to make a curved dovetail joint on the router table. A variant I came up with to make from the typical...
Leonardo Da Vinci’s self-supporting bridge
From children to adults, Leonardo Da Vinci's inventions always catch everyone's attention. Not only because of the thing he intended to achieve in the...
10 homemade woodworking jigs explained step-by-step
In our home woodworking shop we may have many power tools or hand tools, of poorer or better quality, but if we want to...
Miter sled to cut miter joints with the table saw
Making 45-degree miter joints seems pretty straightforward, and it's the type of wood joint we think of for many of our woodworking projects. But...
How to make tongue and groove without router bit set
In the previous post we saw how to make the jig for routing tongue and groove joints with the plunge router. On that occasion...
How to make a tongue and groove jig for plunge router
We could make tongue and groove boards with a router table and a special tongue and groove router bit set that is ready to...
How to make a drill press table with pivoting fence
I wasn't planning to make a table for the drill press because, like many other things that later surprised me in my small woodworking...
How to cut circles out of wood with a jigsaw table
Cutting a circle of wood by hand is often tricky, although the tests I have done so far with this jigsaw table have been...
A fence to make straight cuts with the jigsaw table
When I installed the support with bearings to keep the jigsaw blade vertical on my homemade jigsaw table, I didn't worry about not having...
Makeshift jig support for cutting small pieces on the miter saw
The miter saw is maybe not the most dangerous machine in the shop, but like with all the electric tools in the woodworking shop,...
How to make a display case for an earthenware pot, part 3
Once the main parts of the glazed display case are done, I can now assemble the legs and decorations, and finish assembling the whole...
Tenon jig for router table
Now that I have "fixed" the side fence of my router table, I can already route on the end of the wood strips without...
Improving the router table with a split fence
When I made the double side fence for the router table and the table saw (you can see it here) I had not too...
Problems with jigsaw blade alignment and miter sled cuts
Everything was working so well in this DIY jigsaw table that I decided to make a miter sled for 45Āŗ cuts to make miter...
Some considerations on the table jigsaw
Seeing how simple it seems to be making a jigsaw table and its sled for accurate and square cuts, I thought I had to...
Crosscut sled for precise cuts on the table jigsaw
Seeing how well the jigsaw cuts with the guide that keeps the blade vertical, now all I needed was a crosscut sled to make...