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One way to make a perfect circle

Disc-sand the workpiece with this quick-and-easy jig

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Here's a circle-sanding jig you can make in no time flat. First, screw together the jig, shown in the drawing below, from a couple of pieces of particleboard or plywood. Then follow the three steps shown in the photos, below.

Position the jig on your disc sander's table with the cleat contacting the table's right-hand corner, but about 2" away from its left-hand corner. With a single clamp, secure the jig's base to the table. As shown in photo 1.

Fasten the oversize bandsawn top to the jig's base with a #8×1-1/4" flathead wood screw. The top overhangs the edge of the jig's base that faces the sanding disc by about 1/4". As shown in photo 2.

Switch on the sander. Pivot the jig until the cleat contacts the sander's table along its full length. Rotate the top against the disc. Keep the jig's base and cleat tight against the sander's table. As shown in photo 3.

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Comments (5)

tundradave wrote:

Download Irfanview software (free). Do a screen print of the page and paste it in the software. Crop it as you wish, then save.

4/18/2013 07:45:40 PM Report Abuse

b_miller841908 wrote:

I was unable to print both pages at one time. By printing page one then printing page two I was able to print it out.

1/4/2013 11:10:02 AM Report Abuse

marykumar1 wrote:

I've added a comment in Jig #3: Vertical Hole Jig on how to create a pdf document.

8/14/2012 08:33:48 AM Report Abuse

Killbuck wrote:

Having same problem with this plan as with #2, won't print. It shows no way to download any PDF of it so it can be stored, as well as printed. Becoming a major discouragement.

8/14/2012 07:12:59 AM Report Abuse

fixitcr63 wrote:

Having same problem with this plan as with #2, won't print. It shows no way to download any PDF of it so it can be stored, as well as printed. Becoming a major discouragement.

8/10/2012 04:17:53 PM Report Abuse