Re: down scaled Jimmy Jig on my Table saw

made a fence saddle that slides also on on the aluminum fence and works as a tenon jig WOOHOO!

ripped several pieces of scraps and hard wood (teak)

i s4s a really rough teak using my old TS rip jig ( i just removed the runners and had it ride against the fence) on two sides. The the other two ripped it the conventional way

ripping is smooth everytime. No sign of binding or fence misalignment. smooth smooth SMOOTH!

Added 2 inserts at workable widths. These widths allow me already to rip any size i want

been moving the jig left and right countless of times.

everything is a charm so far.

Will post pictures tomorrow. 🙂

The only thing missing in the jig is a fine adjustment mechanism. I would imagine a row of teeth right under the runners and hand cranked wooden gears...

The MDF will wear off soon i suspect. When it does i will be using aluminum runners

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fence sliding saddle

rip rip rip! the far right is the teak

quick squared on tenons, safely. Pic shows a single clamp. for illustration purposes only hehe

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Things are getting along smoothly then for you and your Jet TS.
- What is the maximum wood thickness that the TS could rip with that jig?
- Did the jig solved the problem of the imperfect original table?
- Have you already fixed the squareness of the blade when raised or lowered?

If these are addressed, a Jet + McDuff jig would probably be a cheap solution then.

Re: down scaled Jimmy Jig on my Table saw

Things are getting along smoothly then for you and your Jet TS.
- What is the maximum wood thickness that the TS could rip with that jig?
- Did the jig solved the problem of the imperfect original table?
- Have you already fixed the squareness of the blade when raised or lowered?

If these are addressed, a Jet + McDuff jig would probably be a cheap solution then.

the mcduff plans alone cost 10USD plus the materials I estimate to cost around 3K plus the Jet ts, should set you back around 15K, depth of cut should be reduced by 3/4" thick and should be around 2 1/4" capacity leaving you with a 2" capacity safely.

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Hi Jarod

The blade is squared naman when raised and lowered it just that it shifts a few mm left (when riased) to right (when lowered) . But it maintains its parallelness

It did solved the imperfect ness of the table because the sliding table top rests on the aluminum guide rails. hence it has its own reference flat

Maximum wood thickness... lets see... 85mm - (2mm + 12mm ) = 71 mm theoretical maximum. 2mm is the amount of rise the guide rails have over the table saw top. The 12mm is the half inch ply wood/mdf . I assume the saw cuts 85mm instead of the usual 90 for 10inch TS

If you ask me to re assess my TS purchase, i am still mixed. Nothing will ever replace a good TS. the bosch gts10 is still in my list because of the power it has over the other benchtop saws. even the dewalt 745 apparently lacks power. The gts10 also has more grunt DAW than the 4100.

but for those on a budget and enjoys jigs and contraptions. This makes a bad table saw into a good table saw

in theory i can rip woods at 140mm thick. Then rip one side then flip and rip again technique. I tried doing it. It will work on my saw IF my saw can cut the wood at full blade height without bogging down. But either my blade is dirty or my saw dont have enough grunt. Hence i had to cut the wood in several passes at different heights , then flip. With that and the shifting blade thing.... you get a very rough cut , which have to be fed to the thicknesser

i will be spraying polyurethane on the top and botto,m of the jig later. Spray can poly. 🙂 wipiing is too tedious.

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Very nice work Bee. I've seen that site before but did not pay much attention to it. Now that you say the jig is really good, I might consider doing one too though I must say do like the JJWS.

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yeah the Jimmy Jig workstation looks neat. Since it also had a dedicated cross cutting area. Plus you can slap a RT on it , jigsaw table , hand planer upside down jointer thingy...

I think Macduff even made a slot mortising router jig...

I am contemplating on replacing the runners underneath to acrylic.. since i have boat loads of it at home at the moment. But some adjustments are needed and the runners are glued. Or i may grab a 1/2 inch phenolic and redo the top... oh well will see

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went and had a look at the JJWS.. its concept is the same pala but execution is reversed. This time it is your saw unit that moves not the table top.

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JJWS??? :confused:

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http://megatech.tk/jj/index.php?name=Products&page=Jimmy_Jig_Workstation

jimmy jig workstation

the same guy who made the plans for the jimmy jig

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hehehe, thanks...

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i had the same reaction when Louis said JJWS... took me half an hour to figure it out

I cleaned my blade today. Rips sweeter than yesterday.

OT: I cant get myself to buy the freud thin kerf combi blades... 2.5K a pop! any local alternatives?

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Kayo naman the JJWS is just a little lower on the Product page. I'm thinking I'd like to do that using the saw motor I scrounged but this is OT.

This is OT but heck its Bee's topic and he brought it up .... My impression is that P2500 for a Freud is worth it. I'd give it a shot Bee then if it doesn't live up to your expectation do buy another. Where is this P2500 Freud?

Recently I bought a thin kerf Powercraft (I think) blade from Hans. IIRC, the kerf is only 1.7 or 1.5 mm. Seems ok but I haven't really had a chance to use it extensively because it is only 7-1/4" and the workpieces I had were too thick.

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akala ko kasi eh, jejemon thingy yun :p:eek::rolleyes::p.
well there is the Bosch saw blades, for the moment all I use is the one with the 4100 but it isn't think kerf. Irwin Hardware has these on stock, they might have thin kerf and iirc the price was 1.7K.

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Bro, I don't even know what "jejemon" means. What does it mean anyway?