Shows how to make jigs for use with routers, sanders, drill presses, radial arm saws, and band saws

A guide to using forty kinds of jigs with ideas for adapting them to different shops and projects.

Any savvy woodworker knows that the right jigs and fixtures can greatly expand your capabilities and creativity in the shop. In fact, they'll allow you to perform many tasks that a basic table saw, router, drill press, band saw, or other machine simply can't do alone. In this book, woodworking expert Danny Proulx presents a superb collection of woodworking jigs and fixtures that you can make yourself. They'll help you with everything from sawing panels, tenons, and tapers to routing dadoes, arcs, and circles. You'll discover jigs for making better frame-and-panel doors on the router table, and fixtures that will make gluing up miters and other difficult-to-clamp joints a breeze. Among other things, you'll find plans for a band saw fence that adjusts for blade drift, and a jig for quickly aligning your table saw fence. All of these invaluable shop helpers are easy to build from commonly available materials and supplies. You make these jigs, and they'll make you a better woodworker. Count on it.

Covers all aspects of building your dream woodworking shop. Includes 5 basic layouts and dozens of projects.

Simple, Astonishingly Effective Jigs You've Never Seen Anywhere Else Add speed, accuracy and ease to almost every operation in your shop with this book of 16 ingenious jigs, clever workshop aids and amazing devices that you simply cannot buy in any store. These jigs are the helping hands that turn a bench-pounding frustrating glue-up into a calm, controlled and confident operation. They're the things that tool manufacturers should have added to all your tools, and they're the time-saving shortcuts you wish you'd thought of. • Cut accurate tenons on any curved shape with a one-piece table saw jig. • Trick your drill press to bore accurate mortises at any conceivable angle. • Sculpt elegant raised-panel doors with the safest and most adjustable jig ever. • Turn parts of any length (yes, any length) without ever moving your lathe's tool rest. • Secure parts of any shape to your bench with ever-obedient bench dogs and dirt-simple cradles. • Draw accurate arcs and circles that are out of range of all commercial compasses.

If power tools provide the muscle you need to work wood, then jigs and fixtures provide the finesse. These shop-made accessories make your tools safer, more accurate, and easier to use, expanding your shop's versatility by allowing you to perform more woodworking techniques with the tools you already own. This step-by-step pictorial manual shows you how to design and build jigs for every operation in your shop, choose materials for strength and durability, and find the best place to purchase particular hardware. It also gives you a "craftsman's dozen"-- a special section with detailed plans and instructions for 12 jigs and fixtures that you'll use everyday.