#woodworker #Woodworking #jig Cove Cutting Jig, one of the essential jigs in the woodworking shop ▶Business inquiries: rlatjdbf@gmail.com ▶Facebook: / woodworkingno1 ▶Instagram: / wood.no1
Your engineering and clarity of design is, as usual, elegant and sound. Thanks for showing! Excellent saving of setup time and effort over the usual clamping of board to table as a fence.
I have often used my table saw sideways, but I put the fence the other side of the blade so that the cut is pushing the work toward the fence. This makes it safer.
I like the combo of the safety finger with the micro jig (for those watching, lateral pressure could have been achieved by lowering the L-shaped leg to the table level on the right of the jig from the viewer perspective).
Thank you for showing the final application, even when for a short time. Still it would be nice if you have also shown us, how you got to the final piece 🙂
I did this last year while replicating an antique. It worked as intended, but I was sweating bullets for fear of safety. If that gate moves during a pass, things would go jelly-side-down in a flash! I'm happy to see someone else do this odd cut because it assures me I wasn't completely crazy in my guess in how they did it.
I made cherry cove mouldings for my kitchen a number of years ago using the same method by simply clamping temporary parallel fences to the top of my tablesaw. It saved me a ton of money. If I were planning to make a quantity of them then a jig like this would be a good idea. I sanded the curves smooth with sandpaper wrapped around an empty wine bottle that was just the right diameter.
Robert... another good way to get a perfectly profiled sanding block is to simply put a sandpaper sheet in the cut curve, grit side up, and rub an appropriately sized polystyrene block into it to take the shape... that then is your sanding block ! ... 😎👍☘🍺
30-odd years ago the DeWalt radial arm demo videos showed how to make dished panels using a similar technique swinging the blade through an arc on the gimbal mount.
Very inventive but honestly I would grab the last piece you put on thrown out the rest and set it up from your table channel/slides, yup just one piece of wood and 10min later.
really? which hand is missing the fingers? maybe you should watch closer. he seems to like curling his spare fingers up. 5:17. full right hand. thats already more fingers than you counted. maybe you got confused? left hand. ring finger. missing the tip. who says it was due to timberwork? judgemental, much?
I’ve done that numerous times w no issues. Just be sure to take small bites & let the saw do the work. I’m more interested in the miter gauge that was being used.
I've seen people doing this (the arch cut at the beginning of the vid) before, but I can't help but think this is obscenely dangerous. In general, of course, but in this particular case, the fence is MUCH lower that the contact point of the blade with the top of the arch and therefore, producing a torque on the workpiece that encourages it to rotate to camera left. How on earth do you do this and ensure that a slight wiggle in the workpiece doesn't turn into a ballistic block of cellulose? 6:33, for example.
You use a push stick for a 4 1/2" wide piece of plywood and cut those little angled pieces with your finger a1/2" inch from the blade. I would have used my miter saw. Down to 1 3/4" I never use a push stick because you need your fingers to keep it to the fence.
Having watched videos I tried something very similar to that. It cost me a set of bearings for my Ridgid table saw. Table saws were not meant to put up with that kind of thrust loading no matter how small a bite you take. Be warned.
I am still a noob and had no idea you could cut that way. Funny thing is I have been wondering lately on options to cove. Funny thing fate is! I'd probably keep things a little more simple but this is genius sir!
You are putting a side-strain on the saws spindle bearings which they were not designed for so it needs to be a decent sized saw to begin with & you need to only take small bites.... 😎👍
Buen día Maestro, primero que nada, excelentes tecnicas en la manipulacion de la madera, segundo, seria posible que usted crease un dispositivo para armar cajones estandar, ya que en anteriores videos uste creo un dispositvo para tornear haciendo uso de la sierra. Gracias de antemano por compartir su conocimiento. =)
I reckon if you tried really hard, you could make that jig slightly more complicated and twice as expensive to make😂 why not just clamp a guide to you table🤷♂️🤣
Looking at the last picture and still can't find the jig! I'm guessing that's exactly the point :D Curious what you'll use this for, waiting for next video!
Best not to layout on the centerline of the cove. It is easy to use the profile drawing dimensions to set the fence distance to the blade after choosing the finished height. Many or most table saws swing the arbor up and down on a pivot to adjust height. This moves the center of your blade ellipse forward and backward in the cove as you cut incrementally. My procedure is to set the blade height to the drawing dimension, determine the angle needed to meet the cove width, lock the fence at the distance needed, then drop the blade and start taking tiny bites until the cove matches the profile that you have drawn on the end of your stock.
I just worked building a boat for a 1/2 payment in two pallets of Hawaiian Koa. And silk oak beams and ceder siding. Going from fiberglass fabrication to wood working. Will I be successful? I figured, sharp tools are safe tools, some tools are not worth the budget buy. Some are. I also am going to ask to be shown how to use and handle any tools I'm unfamiliar with. I do amazing things with a worm drive saw that brakes rules . I may not be so lucky with a shop full.
unfortunately it produces parabolas and not true curves. lol at everyone commenting on missing digits. watch it again. i see one left hand ring finger missing the tip. lol at comments on how dangerous it is. all timberwork is dangerous. im not seeing excessively deep cuts or forcing machinery beyond its capabilities... perfectly fine as long as you slow down and think for a change.
