September 2025 Contest

[Michael Mathews]

For September let's see if we can get a LOT of entries! How about if everyone posts pics of their homemade jigs. This can be for the Table Saw, Bandsaw, Drill Press, you made a jig, post a pic or three!

This contest will end September 28. Voting will run September 29-30.

Rules:
- Must be created within the last 60 months. That's 5 years
- One submission per creator/artist per category (month). Pick one piece. If you have a set and want to show how it matches okay but you are only entering one piece. Hi-light that one piece.
- Members vote for winners so your submittal 'marketing' post should reflect quality. Limited to 3 photos and 500 words. One post per submittal.
- Any Q&A regarding a submittal should be handled by separate post, or DM/PM. Expect questions to be deleted. Separate posts do not clutter the contest thread, avoids vote biasing, and everyone can share How's It Made (Resources forum content).
- Each creator can win a contest no more than once every six months.
- In case of a tie, a judge panel will make the selection. Judges' decision is final. Judges will remain anonymous.
- Each monthly contest will have two winners, novice and experienced/journeyman/veteran/pro. Novice is defined as <3 years woodworking, cumulative. "Experienced" is all others. Submitters must indicate if they are novice; honor system applies. If you don't declare, you're an experienced woodworker.

 

[DSWalker]

I'll go first unless someone beats me to this post.
Tapered Table Leg Jig:

I've made 4-5 tables and a few of the people I was gifting them to wanted tapered legs. So this is my jig. Pretty simplistic and basic, but it gets the job done.

The bolt at the bottom can be screwed in or out to adjust the degree of the angle in conjunction with the fence positioning.

Okay, it can only get better from here. What else do y'all have?

 

[woodgnome]

T track work station / drill press table forth coming with pics ( 1st time using new dado stack on table saw
Just bumping post up a bit.

 

[beloitdavisja]

Experienced Entry
Hand cranked spiral jig for the lathe. Crank attached to a threaded rod, which is attached to a sled where the router is mounted. The other end of the threaded rod is connected to the pulley system, which was connected to the lathe chuck. Had to calculate a multi-pulley ratio for the desired spiral - 1 rotation = 6" linear travel. 78 cranks to go the full rotation/6 inches (Rod was 13tpi, times 6). Process was tedious, but the end result was pretty consistent.

Results

 

[SabertoothBunny]

Table saw jug for making exact Celtic knots for pen blanks or other long, smaller spindles. It is quite effective and remarkable how simple it is once you stop overthinking it. -- I would classify myself as a journeyman woodworker but veteran turner.

 

[Bill_L]

Table saw jug for making exact Celtic knots for pen blanks or other long, smaller spindles. It is quite effective and remarkable how simple it is once you stop overthinking it.

How does that jig work? I've made a Celtic knot before so I'm trying to understand.

 

[SabertoothBunny]

How does that jig work? I've made a Celtic knot before so I'm trying to understand.

The bottom of the jig has a track that lines up in the table saw track to get it strait/even. The back is just for grip to push the sled.

The other 2 strait pieces of wood are angles for the celtic knot, one at 40 degrees for longer knots and one at 45 degrees for shorter knots. So you can make marks along strait pieces of week, pending length of blank, so that you can make consistent cuts for inlaying a wood to created the knot without cutting all of the way through the blank (cutting all the way through causes knots to be out of alignment). The clips hold the wood in place when cutting. Glue the desired inlay material into the 1/8" cut (or smaller if using a thin kerf blade) and rotate the blank to the right, realign and cut again then glue the next inlay piece. Rinse and repeat. You could increase the number of inlays by changing the shape of the blank from square to an octagon but I find it to be too busy for smaller pieces.

Does the explain it?

 

[Bill_L]

The bottom of the jig has a track that lines up in the table saw track to get it strait/even. The back is just for grip to push the sled.

The other 2 strait pieces of wood are angles for the celtic knot, one at 40 degrees for longer knots and one at 45 degrees for shorter knots. So you can make marks along strait pieces of week, pending length of blank, so that you can make consistent cuts for inlaying a wood to created the knot without cutting all of the way through the blank (cutting all the way through causes knots to be out of alignment). The clips hold the wood in place when cutting. Glue the desired inlay material into the 1/8" cut (or smaller if using a thin kerf blade) and rotate the blank to the right, realign and cut again then glue the next inlay piece. Rinse and repeat. You could increase the number of inlays by changing the shape of the blank from square to an octagon but I find it to be too busy for smaller pieces.

Does the explain it?

Yes. Didn't realize the different angles were for different pieces. I saw the 40 / 45 written on the board but wasn't sure why the different angles. Thanks!

 

[bainin]

Oh! I actually have something to enter

Its a fence mounted rip-jig for small stock. Had the kid 3D print the white parts..i just had to make the ply box that straddles the fence and figure out the hardware.
Some short 3/8" pieces for frame stock shown.

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[Canuck]

Built this mini TS sled for cutting small parts a little more safely. Stop block and hold down to keep fingers away from spinning blade.

 

[LeftyTom]

Here is my pipe clamp supports, panel flattening jig, and hybrid infeed / assembly table

 

[JNCarr]

I had to cut hundreds (720 if I remember correctly) of 1-1/2 x 1-1/2 blocks to exactly 1-3/4 length. This jig allows accurate cut length and automatic safe retraction before the cut begins.
When the sled is pulled away from cutting, the stop bock sets to the desired cut length by compressing the spring.
As the sled is pushed to the blade, the simple track allows the stop block to be moved away by the spring, giving clearance so the cut part wont bind.
Not a big deal for a few parts, but for hundreds it saved me a lot of time over other methods.

 

[rcarmac]

Jig for the table saw

 

[woodgnome]

After purchasing Kreg’s portable Dog hole / grippy string work table, I decided I wanted something similar with T-tracks
During the build I modified the design to serve as a drill press table as well as stand alone

Being my first use of a Dado Stack, I’m tickled with the finished product & relieved to allow the Router to rest for most dados

 

[woodgnome]

Apologies, I neglected to plunk myself in a classification.
I am a hobbyist who aspires to be an intermediate woodworker.

 

[creasman]

I'll throw my fluting jig into the mix. It's a jig used on a router table. I'm in the experienced category. You can read more about where/how it's used in this post.

Essentially, the jig is a long box/cradle to hold a turned column so flutes can be routed down the length. Not seen is a slot in the base that runs the length of a flute. This allows the router bit to extend up through the base and into the column as the jig is passed against the router table fence.

End blocks clamp the column in place so it doesn't turn during the process. A vertical mark on these is used to align the column for each pass. I wanted 12 flutes so the circle I printed is marked in 30 degree increments. For each pass the column is turned to align the mark with the next increment before tightening the clamp.

 

[HMH]

Jig for the table saw
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Cool jig! My only advise on this, seeing as it’s riding a sawstop fence - is to replace those (metal) screws in the backstop piece w/ either just glue, or dowels or something if it needs reinforcing. If you forget, and happen to raise that blade a bit before a cut, you’ll get to buy a new brake cartridge/ blade - ask me how I know, ha.

 

[Dave Richards]

Here's a small panel glue-up clamp I've used for years. The cauls provide pressure along the edges of the panel pieces. The base is 24 inches square but it could be made any size. I don't have access to the actual jig right now but here's the SketchUp model.