Canadian Woodworking jig articles showcase clever shop-made jigs, accuracy-boosting setups, repeatable techniques, and time-saving solutions that improve safety, precision, and efficiency in your woodworking projects.
Cutting clean dados for case joinery is a fundamental skill for furniture makers. Dado joints are strong, self-squaring, and attractive. Some woodworkers don't have a dado set, so this jig allows you to use a standard-width blade to create perfectly fitting dados. Best of all, with the use of this jig, they are easy and quick to cut.
This simple sled provides a safe, accurate and easy way to cut mitres on large work-pieces.
An ellipse is fairly easy to make, and looks very impressive. All you need is an accurate jig.
This quick and easy jig makes short work of jointing veneer to produce virtually invisible seams.
Make accurate and dependable 90° cuts with this adjustable table saw sled.
There is still hope for those of us who don’t have a commercial jig for cutting a mortise and tenon joint.
This jig will cut any circle you need for those special curvy projects.
Use this jig to mill boards too wide to run through your thickness planer.
With this sled you can quickly and easily make perfectly fitting miter joints.
This versatile jig enables you to rout mortises for furniture construction and hardware installation.
Create strong, attractive mitre joints with splines.
When working with sheet stock, thick solid wood edge banding will give you greater design flexibility than thin commercially available iron-on veneer tape. Use this jig and your router to trim edge banding flush with the surface of your sheet stock.
Safety is all about putting some distance between your body parts and the sharp metal bits that shape wood.
Shooting boards come in various sizes. In many shops you will find two: a long shooting board for edge grain, and a shorter version for trimming end grain.
To cut a consistent angle on the table saw with safety and precision, use a shop made tapering jig.
