Do a little dance... wait no I mean jig.

[Radman]

Just curious how many of you out there are tempted to make some form of jig jig any time you are doing repetitive work, such as say making fifty identical foam bricks, or 23 sconces? Or how about drilling the same holes into different pieces? I personally find myself wanting to make a jig for about half the work I do. I feel it really helps the quality of the workmanship. That said, I usually don't.

[Footer]

I jig out everything... whenever im doing steel work nothing gets welding enless it gets put in a jig, if im cutting more then 5 of anything i set a jig... whenever we build flats (mostly hollywood out of 1x3) they are made in a jig... if you jig everything odds are that everyting will come out square and true... that being said as long as the jig is made well...

[Mayhem]

I have a jig for making floor stands into which I drop the cut lengths of steel before welding. I also have templates speaker box and roadcase hardware and for most panel mounted or non-round sockets etc that I use.

[Kelite]

<that being said as long as the jig is made well...>

Amen! You've gotta have it square to come out square!

2x4's and other dimensional lumber are great for knocking out a quick jig for multi- set pieces. The trick is getting to the point where these can be found in the same spot for re-use. Yikes!

[nez]

here here repetatie works sucks and yea i know puts some music on and do a little dance ahahha

[soundman]

At the shop there are three jigs we would not get by with out. The coffin lock jig that slips over the 2* and let you router out both part of the hole. The 2nd being the coffin lock jig that goes on the plywood to drill the holes out. Third is the lap joint jig.

[Radman]

One thing I jigged that made work zoom by was just screwing in a block on the bench so i could butt the foam i was cutting up against it after each new cut and have it perfectly square and the right length in a second's time. No need to measure, mark, anything. Just zip zip zip for a few minutes and boom, 50 bricks knocked out.

[Chris15]

Originally Posted by Radman

One thing I jigged that made work zoom by was just screwing in a block on the bench so i could butt the foam i was cutting up against it after each new cut and have it perfectly square and the right length in a second's time. No need to measure, mark, anything. Just zip zip zip for a few minutes and boom, 50 bricks knocked out.

Works for timber too. and if you don't want something so permanent, cramp the block rather than screwing it. Similarly, don't we tend to mark out a distance on the bench, the floor or some other place when making cables so that we don't have to measure each one.

[Radman]

Originally Posted by Chris15

Works for timber too. and if you don't want something so permanent, cramp the block rather than screwing it. Similarly, don't we tend to mark out a distance on the bench, the floor or some other place when making cables so that we don't have to measure each one.

Definitely, I was just using that as an example. And I screw something like that in if its gonna be used for a large number of things, after constant butting, clamps can slip itsy bits.

[soundlight]

I was recently drilling floor bases for our PAR-38 striplights to be used as groundrow-level cyc lighting. I drilled one, and then put that on top of the next one...and the next one...and the next one, drilling each the same way. This ensured consistency, and mean that I didn't have to go back and check each individual floor base against the next.