Workshop Woodworking Jigs

You can make mortises with a fixed-base router mounted in a router table. To make a mortise this way, you have to lower a workpiece onto a spinning bit. It takes a little bit of setup to do this safely and correctly.

At the link you can download the free plans and watch the video to build your own single blade box joint jig.

We built our own Frid jig a dozen years ago and have used it steadily since; you will find it lying about the store somewhere near the routers, looking a little rough around the edges but still willing. The design is so simple and effective that it deserves to be a standard accessory in every shop equipped with a plunge router.

Instead of making three separate jigs for common woodworking joinery, Doug Blacke found a way to combine all three into one super jig.

Here are free step-by-step instructions to build your own box joint jig.

Here is a simple jig for your table saw that can do a great deal of the work of a jointer. In this set of free woodworking plans, learn how to build a simple table saw jointer jig that will give you clean, straight edges from which to do glue-ups, make other joints or just ensure a clean edge for that piece of stock.

I own a fixed-base router, so I figured I had have to invest in a more expensive plunge router if I ever wanted to make plunge cuts. But then I figured out a way to make safe, accurate plunge cuts with my fixed-base router.

You can trim a miter quickly and accurately with nothing more than a sharp hand plane and a simple jig, like the one shown here.

If you are building something that requires a lot of dowels the same size, you should build this dowel cutting jig first. It also helps prevent tearout.

I designed a jig, ... that lets me rip short strips (less than 2 ft long), without having to readjust the fence between cuts or get my hands close to the blade.

Follow along with the step-by-step instructions, pictures and video to make your own star knob jig.