Making a Jig for Shaping Curves with Tom McLaughlin 

Thank you! I actually am a big fan of starter pins and will always use them when there is a clear need. This jig is made to have part of the lower guide platform engage the cutter bearing safely and smoothly so that you are in full contact with the base pattern before the cutter engages the leg. Hope that makes sense. Thanks for your kind words and for watching! 👍😎

You're welcome 👍

Thank you so much for those kind words...and you’re never too late to this party! 😎 I look forward to having you involved, thanks for being part of us!! 👍

Thanks Yali, good question, sorry I just noticed you had asked this one. I hope I can word this right too...some things are easier to show. But as you see in the video, I set the stop blocks for both the first and second cut, referencing off the bottom of the master pattern. So when bandsawing out the parts before using the jig, I take care to bandsaw the bottom of the leg, squarely and accurately right to the line (traced from the master pattern), while the rest of the piece is sawn just leaving the line so there is material there to trim flush using the jig. Then the carefully sawn bottom of each part is referenced, or indexed, against the stop blocks for both the first and second cut. You will find that since with each cut you are referencing from the same bottom cut, the results will be quite accurate, and will not result in enough variation to cause any problem. Hope that helps! Thanks for watching, Tom

Richard Madsen thank you Richard, my aim is to keep it coming👍 It does me good to know you are finding them beneficial and enjoyable! My Best, Tom

Mike Minor Hi Mike, thanks for watching and for your interest. The master pattern in this case was taken from the Craftsman style rocking chair project drawing. I use a stippling method (poking through the drawing with and awl) tracing the leg shape onto a 1/4" thick piece of masonite, then retracing and connecting the dots (you can also use carbon paper). Then the Masonite shape is bandsawn out and fared smooth with a spokeshave, blockplane and file. I take care to get this shape as smooth and accurate given it will become the pattern for creating the jig to reproduce multiples. Thanks again, Hope that helps! Tom

Thank you for the explanation. I had not thought of using your stippling method. Nice job.

ndudman8 No silly questions 🙂...it’s a 1/2” shank, 2” long flush trim bit, with the cutter diameter being 3/4”. Also, the bearing is at the bottom when mounted in the router table...I think the brand is Whiteside. Hope that helps, thanks for watching, Tom

Many thanks, no silly question indeed :) Exactly what I needed to know. Thanks again for the video and sharing freely with me and others.

Great, glad it helped...and thanks for watching!👍

It’s difficult to say exactly without knowing the style of the credenza. But I most often hang that sort of door using butt hinges, which I get from Horton Brasses. And I like their “precision butt hinges”, the PB407 or PB409 style. Here’s the link, hope it helps! www.horton-brasses.com/precisionbutt.asp

@@EpicWoodworking thanks very much for your suggestion. I’ll look into the Butt hinges. 🙏

Yes, some form of that method would work well. The trick is to make a simple layout position jig/template that hold the overlapping curves in the desired position while knifing the outline of the overlap on each piece. The rough out the waste of the lap, clean to the depth with hand chisel, Router or router plane, and finally chisel to the previously knifed overlap lines to finish fitting the lap. Hope that makes sense 👍 Thanks!

@@EpicWoodworking Thank you so much. Practiced about 3 hours last night...not bad, but not nearly good enough.

Thanks Phil, it’s our pleasure! Tom

Thanks Basil. To make the template I began with a drawing, transferred to 1/4” MDF, bandsawing as smoothly and close to the line, then fared the curves smooth with a spokeshave, blockplane, files and sanding. Hope that helps! Tom

Thanks for you reply I don’t fully understand why you you can’t you the templates to make the actual leg ?

+ejfurniture It's good to know it was well received -- looking forward to providing more!

JAY Croyle My pleasure Jay, glad you enjoyed it! Your may be interested in the free live-streams I’m doing each week, you can find out more on our website epicwoodworking.com

@@EpicWoodworking do you post the live streams to you tube?

JAY Croyle Yes, they are Thursday nights at 8 PM EST, we call it Shop Night Live. Starting a special free class tomorrow night (Tuesday’s and Saturday’s) making a Shaker style end table with a drawer...and one person will win the finished table. If interested, you can find out more at the website. Thanks for watching!

Robertson cleto koerner Thank you!!👍😀

Thanks, you are the first to like my handwriting :) And thanks for watching too!! Tom

Jenno Vices All I can say to that is “I have a fever for more cowbell!”

yeah seriously, I honestly thought there were lots parts of the video where you sounded like CW, pardon the pun, but i'm sure you could really nail it to do a really good impression .... BTW, loved the video :-)

Thanks, glad you liked it 👍 Guys who can do that impersonation crack me up, thanks to you, maybe I have an undiscovered talent I have to work on 🙂

give it a shot