Joinery routing guide
Reach for your router and this jig to cut clean, accurate dadoes, rabbets, and half-laps.
- • Start with a plywood base
- • Positioning the guides
- • Two cuts rout a rabbit
- • Rout rabbets, dadoes, and half laps with ease
Start with a plywood base
To make this jig, cut a 3/4x8x18" plywood base, shown in the drawing. Then cut the remaining jig parts from a 2x48" blank that's a hair thicker than your workpieces. Drill countersunk pilot holes and screw the 18"-long fence to the base with the edges and ends flush. Place a workpiece against that fence and butt the edge of the 13"-long fence against the workpiece. Drill and screw the 13" fence in place.
Quick Tip: Add shims for clearance. If you don't have a planer to size the fences thicker than your project parts, raise the fences by inserting kraft-paper shims to provide clearance. Now drill and screw one router guide 90° to the two fences and flush with the end of the 13" fence. Then place a scrap the width and thickness of your workpiece in the jig under the router guide and clamp it in place.
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worked for me - good idea
3/16/2012 10:15:52 AM Report AbuseIt is not the computer. The code is wrong to perform the enlargemnt
3/15/2012 03:23:59 PM Report Abusedude; Have your computer checked out. All you have to do is click on the picture. If that doesn't work, have someone look at your computer as it should enlarge. Not 8X10 but good enough to get the idea. :)
11/25/2011 11:26:54 AM Report AbuseOkay, once again the pictures do not enlarge.
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