Workshop Accessories & Jigs [Archive]

dassic

27th January 2009, 01:38 AM

Commercial jigs are so expensive or I can't find them anywhere in Australia. I have friends in the U.S. and the Woodworking market is huge, you can buy just about anything from Jigs to Accessories that increase your <link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Tony/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"><style>  </style>Precision at a reasonable prices. Is there such a source in Australia, I need a Mortise Jig, another for drilling holes for Adjustable Shelves(32mm Spacing for pins) and I would have to work for a hole month just to pay for them. Any one got any ideas. Why do these aids cost 1000's times more than the material that is in them.

Rookie

27th January 2009, 04:22 PM

.........and the Woodworking market is huge, you can buy just about anything from Jigs to Accessories that increase your <LINK href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Tony/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml" rel=File-List><STYLE>  </STYLE>Precision at a reasonable prices.......

That's your reason right there. Economies of scale.

I don't know a lot about jig availability, but there seem to be many which don't cost a month's salary. But not a lot of people here are commercial so they tend to make their own if the store bought are too expensive.

Others can tell you more.

Barry_White

27th January 2009, 05:19 PM

Hi Dassic

Welcome to the forum.

Have browse through this forum and you may find something you are looking for.

http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=16776

There are a lot of jigs made by forum members that you could perhaps make yourself.

Waldo

27th January 2009, 05:30 PM

G'day and welcome,

For a mortise jig have a look at Rocker's site, he's a member on here and has a few jigs available for download to make yourself. It might even inspire you to make some yourself, a bit of thinking with the noggin can save a pile of $ at times. :2tsup:

http://rockerswoodwork.blogspot.com/

Template Tom

27th January 2009, 06:32 PM

Commercial jigs are so expensive or I can't find them anywhere in Australia. I have friends in the U.S. and the Woodworking market is huge, you can buy just about anything from Jigs to Accessories that increase your <link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Tony/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"><style>  </style>Precision at a reasonable prices. Is there such a source in Australia, I need a Mortise Jig, another for drilling holes for Adjustable Shelves(32mm Spacing for pins) and I would have to work for a hole month just to pay for them. Any one got any ideas. Why do these aids cost 1000's times more than the material that is in them.

Dassic
My advice is to enquire about alternative methods of using the router. Yes Jigs are very expensive, and over my 55 years working with wood I have still to purchase my first jig. I make my own for all sorts of projects such as small elliptical boxes that required a couple of jigs and templates to be made to the construction of dining room chairs that required about 20-30 jigs to complete all the processes required in the construction. All made from material available in my workshop without a great deal of expense involved.

Learn new skills with the router with the aid of the template guides to increase greater safety awareness and also produce an increase in the number of projects you can produce.

Tom

Chipman

27th January 2009, 06:41 PM

For 32 mm shelf spacings, I simply drilled 5mm holes along an aluminium strip... works really well and even if the spacings are a tad out it doen't matter because if you index off the bottom shelf. they will be all the same.

Make your own jigs!

Cheers,

Chipman