Ingenious Jigs & Shop Accessories: Clever Ideas for Improving Your Shop and Tools Fro

by Fine Woodworking Magazine

Book Overview

Jigs are attached to commercial tools (such as routers and tablesaws) as guides, references and safety devices during woodworking operations. This guide should enable readers to build useful jigs,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561582964
• ISBN13: 9781561582969
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Finally!

We woodworkers all build jigs, you know those shop built attachments that hopefully allow a tool to function better than it did out of the box! If you're like me you use them and store them in the rafters. For surely they will come in handy again!? Unfortunately most of them never get used again and end up collecting dust until you finally throw them out. For this reason I have never been a big fan of jig books which to my mind just help add to the clutter.However, in this new book from The Taunton Press we are finally treated to a selection of jigs and accessories that will undoubtedly be useful over and over again. The authors of the jigs presented are all experienced woodworkers who clearly gave some thought to the longevity and usefulness of these accessories.The first chapter discusses materials used to build jigs including various plastics. Chap 2 shows benches and bench fixtures. The rest of the chapters are divided according to the type of tool the jigs or accessories are designed to work with, routers, tablesaws, etc. There is also an overview of some commercially available router tables.Some of the jigs are a bit complex, but even if you don't build exactly what is shown, the ideas for expanding the usefulness of a particular tool are really innovative and should get your own creative juices flowing! It would be a rare woodworker who wouldn't find at least several useful ideas in this book.It would be nice if tool designers gave more thought to how we woodworkers use their tools and incorporated more versatility directly into their tools, but until then, this book offers an overview of well designed jigs and accessories to fill the gap.