Tablesaw single blade box joint jig no dado 

The pin needs to be smaller. Not bigger. To allow the saw blade to travel further and hog out more material. This is mentioned in the video supplied when purchasing the plans from The Woodfather. Nice work on the video, clear and very watchable.

Don't doubt yourself dave, grate jig mate, will be making one

After a lot of searching, I found The Woodfather - Mario's design from 8-9 years ago, and then your excellent video, which seems to be largely based on his plan. I'm definitely going to make this - I had planned on a similar style of router jig, but this looks easier to make and use.

Nice job. Thanks for your honesty in showing what didn't work too well as well as what did. So many content creators only show take 18 and not the 17 failures that when we go to our own workshops and make a few mistakes it can be demoralising.

This is genius! I much prefer this to those 'ultimate jigs' that use 200 quid's worth of timber and clamps to do exactly the same thing. Keep the mistakes in please - it lets the rest of us know we're not on our own. Happy New Year.

Very very good Grumpy, a very good indexing machine!! Bravo 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Nice one Grump. I'll watch it over 4 or 5 times and then give it a go I think. Many thanks, regards, Fred

So glad you gave credit to The Woodfather who did this jig some time ago. A clear video though - try a flat top saw blade - not sure if that was what you were using.

Love it, great video with clear instructions well done Dave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Nice job Dave. I have just been looking at making one of these jigs myself and watching and listening to you making this one has give me the push I needed to get on with it and do it! Thank you. Take care and hopefully see more from you soon. 👍

Great build.Like the way you show your mistakes.It surely helps a lot.You have a wonderful 2024.

Blinding job young man! 😎 That's nothing short of genius and presented in a very easy to understand format. Thanks indeed matey. 👍

That is a piece of genius.

That is cool and such a useful jig. I have been toying with the idea if making a box jig some point, but yours definitely take it up a level from what I have in my head. Thanks for sharing

Hi, came across this after looking at the woodfather version. Cracking job. I’ll definitely be trying your version.

I'll tell you what Dave, that's a superb jig design and build. I enjoyed watching, the end result is brilliant. Nice work. Tony

Well done another excellent video and you shouldn’t doubt yourself you have great skill set when it comes to making things off cuff like you do 👍

Thanks for sharing your ideas I will give it a try.😊

Nice video - I made one of these a couple of years ago and , given a couple of the questions below, I have two furthere suggestions. You can make different patterns, if you cut the sides (call them the rails) of your box with whatever pattern of ups/downs you chose, then cut the stiles (without a spacer on the front of the jig) by reversing the ups to down - and the downs to up and they will match perfectly! As for the pin.... I cut s slot just thinner than the saw blade and then hang - WAIT FOR IT - feeler gauges down through the slot so they hand about an inch down between the adjustable fingers. You can fine tune it by swapping combinations of feeler gauges till it's perfect. Aslo, if you change to a blade of different thickness you can change the pin width easily. Job done!

Top man, top jig!!!!

Happy New Year to you and the family....Big pat on the back for you Dave, great jig to have around the shop. Don't know why you'd even doubt yourself in your ability to make it. Well done once again.

Just thought about it, your pattern blocks on the back just add a bit of painters tape toe eash to allow for the blad to move further

This jig is great Dave. I don't think I could have built it better than you. I have learned a lot and i thank you for sharing it. The process of making it is very interesting and simple only because you have presented it that way. Thank you again. God bless you for your enthusiasm in wood working.

Nice jig Dave, you must have the patience of a saint. Well done mate.

Thanks for the just what I was looking for

That's really clever Dave. I wasn't sure how you were going to solve the problem of cutting out consistent fingers. Nice job!

Nice project you have motivated me to make some plywood storage boxes to replace all the awful fabric covered cardboard ones the slacker in me purchased on Amazon.

Excellent! I'd suggest adding a steel plate to the spacer that contacts the template holding bolt. It will give more consistent tightening of the template blocks I think. I'd cut up a cover plate from a metal outlet box.

Great job!

Nice video Dave, great jig. Never doubt yourself, we've all had to learn. Happy New Year

Brilliant! Well done mate, something for me to attempt when I finally get a decent table saw 👍

Well done Mate works a treat you never know if you can do it until you give it ago. 👍🔨

Top work Dave, I was looking for a way to make box joints without buying a dado stack. Now I just gotta buy the table saw

Great jig Dave. I’ve been watching probably similar videos on various jigs that I want to make when im back on my feet after my recovery.

Good idea! Nice

Excellent and a job well done. I shall attempt to build one in the next few weeks 👍👍👍👌👌👌

Nice one mate looks like a well made jig that will come in handy

Great video Dave, a very useful jig and your video makes it easier to understand how to make one I might try making one in the future 👍👍

Really wonder thnks for your vedio.

Very nice jig. Some day we just have to try something like this. (when we get better at woodworking.) 😀

Nice job Dave I love this one 👌🏻

somehow this title went into my head as "really easy box joints!!"... I'm now 8 minutes in and know i'm never making this and there must be much easier ways to make one of the simpliest joints in the world. the iriony in a lot of woodworking videos: "make this gorgeous workbench!... BUT, you'll need a gorgeous workbench.. with two vices, dogholes, PERFECTLY flat, separate assembly table with glue station, dust collection not mandatory but highly suggested". LOL. Like, yo I don't have half these tools or nice things... just trying to make a box for my dad.

Nice job 👍🏻

That’s a great versatile jig Dave and you really shouldn’t doubt yourself. I made one for my basic router table based on Matt’s (Badger Workshop) design and added a stop to it like you’re going to do 👍. It’s good that you leave in your mistakes so we don’t repeat them, ‘cos then we can make new ones of our own 😂😂😂.

Great idea, good video as always, never knew that you could do that on a table saw definitely going to try it out too happy new year to you,& family 🎉

Good for you mate.good job.well done.👍

Nice trick with the superglue plus wood glue. Like the way you work.

Great video. Loved the stats at the end 😆

Realy like your Video Dave. Keep up the good work

I noticed that your pin was flexing a bit. That's going to make a big difference on the size of each finger. I suggest a steel pin, like a finishing nale or upholstery staple. Cheers🥂

Absolutely brilliant! Way to go. I'm going to make one for myself this weekend. You also got another sub here. Thanks for sharing your idea! Cheers

Buentrabajo ...Gracias. Me he suscrito a tu canal.

Absolutely awesome, It’s like a wooden enigma machine, Definitely going to give this a go. Can you do an update video when you have thrashed out the pin size?

That's how I work I normally change and improvise halfway through last year I made a lovely dovetail pair of underpants

Nice one mate !!

Well! You have 1 more sub, partner! Keep up the good work

nice and simple, well done, to make life easier i would glue your template blocks together so to change size you just pull out the block and put the new size in

Wrap a little tape around your pin to increase the diameter and spacing between the fingers. You can check it with a pair of calipers and see how many wraps you need to cut down on how many tries it takes you.. About 4 thou over the thickness of your stock is what should be about right for a good glue joint.

If you want the joint to be looser you need the diameter/width of the pin to be slightly smaller than the kerf of the blade.

Nice jig. Love it. Great idea. I wonder if I wouldn't adapt it to a router table, of course using a bit that's not too big, say 6 mm in diameter.

I was about to say that looks mighty familiar ;) But you worked it out without needing the plans. Mario recently re-did a new version of this but yes, his original one is a very old video. It is certainly a good design folks can adapt to their own saws.

Hey! I like this jig. It's very straight forward and practical. I watch a lot of creators and have seen some fancy, complicated box joint jigs. Yours is right up my alley. Thus design would be easy to make a variety of different patters for variations. A thought occurred to me: the pin could be made to swivel up after each cut for ease of moving over to next notch(?). Not trying to redesign your jig. Thanks for sharing your work!

That's an exceptional piece of work my bro.. U made this from ur head.. So u thought about it and made it.. I gotta give u huge credit mate bcos that takes a bit of thinking.. Keep up the great work pal.. Love the easy going nature of ur channel too man.. When I saw u making the 1st lotta cuts my thought was Oh shit that's really clever.. Honestly broI salute u for that Jig.. Hello from Dublin too btw..

How do you manage the sawdust ? I have built the jig and started testing it. The very first concern is that every two fingers, there is some amount of sawdust squeezed below the sliding piece of wood which prevents to do precise cuts. Any suggestion will be more than welcome. Frédéric (from France).

your a asda price shopper :) :) smart man

Man some 1/4 in aluminum bar stock cut up to make the fingers and even the kurf pin if you ground it down to the width of blade. It would make sure moisture in the air never affects fit. You drill a hole through all the aluminum fingers for then to swivel up or down and then round the bottom corner off the finger that sets to the bottom and against the fence so it can rotate up and down. Then you could run a piece or 3/8 all thread through them to spin on so they are either stood up or laid down. Then you just tighten a knob like a draw bar to secure them all together and you never have to worry about losing the fingers they are precisely 1/4 inch increments you could make any joint you want. You could use plywood too or better yet even the HDPE plastic instead of aluminum to make the fingers. Sorry I can't help but try and improve everything I see. But this is a very awesome build. I have a box joint jig I use that I made, it uses a large 16 tpi all thread and half nut to move over every time and it makes great fingers but they are all one width and I use a dado. I love this and I see one in my very near future. Thank you for the upload.

Wouldn't this jig also work to create uneven fingers? Try putting two vertical template pieces separated by one horizontal piece (repeating the pattern), then load two sides, cutting both ends. Reverse the template pattern, then cut both ends cutting the rest of the fingers. If that works, you might try a random pattern. Great jig already!

I would check the thickness of each individual piece of plywood from the template as i figured there can be inconsistencies in thickness in plywoods which can result in a tight or inaccurate fit in this case

to stop your runners expanding when screwing them on make sure you drill clearance holes in the runners.

Nice jig is that mate,,,,Dave instead of pilot drilling then countersinking you can get them that do it all in one go you know so it saves time on swapping them over.

A thicker pin would make the slots wider?

😂 181.3 years.... is that all 😂. Your still going to get there before me 😂🤣. Nice jig Dave. Have a bit more faith in what you can do. You just proved you can do it so good job. Stay safe mate 😁👍

Nice job! Round the top of the runner and wax it with paraffin.

looks like a good simple jig, i dont know if it would work, but could you put a single layer of tape on one face of every other pin to allow for glue? maybe it would throw everything off..

Do you have rough dimensions of each of the pieces?

Thanks for this, nice little jig, Stop doubting yourself ,your doing well, earned a sub from me.....Question please, What table saw are you using in this video please ? Cheers

You can get a CMT Orange tools 6mm kerf blade it's more efficient for less passes over blade make sure you look carefully at the dimensions [ groving 240.060.06M O150mm bore=30mm Z =12 FLAT MAX RMP 10000 ] .... Can be stacked carefully of course

can you tell me what you did to make the jig cut the fingers so that they slid in to allow for the glue thanks keith

Toward the end, wouldn't the pin be too large not to small? Smaller pin allows more travel...would need a smaller not larger I think.

Instead of having to keep swapping the templates to the size needed all the time.Could you not have 1 long piece with pre cut out different size spaces so you could just swap the whole piece to the size required.If you put 1 threaded bolt from each side you could lock it in place then.

This is fantastic mate, awesome job. I've wanted to build some kind of box joint jig and this is definitely the one I'm going to go for. Out of interest, what blade are you using? Is it flat top? I can't seem to find one🤨

I know my elevator doesn’t go to the top floor but which pin are you adjusting??

Should the pin be as wide as the kerf of your blade?

I love your take on the #woodfatherjig, as well as the original jig itself. With that in mind, I was wondering… Assuming you have a way to ensure that you could make repeatable straight holes in exactly the same spot on the template pieces, could you put a threaded rod through them with a nut on one end to tighten and loosen the pieces?

Olá boa noite, faça um pra mim lhe agradeço adorei muito bom maravilha 😻

It occurs to me that the support slide is getting cut too isnt it

Hi grumpy I've just watched your video and I think you have done a fab job making your jig, in my opinion it doesn't make a scrap of difference who's original idea it was your interpretation works so happy days 👍👍👍👍👍👍 I've had to subscribe so I hope it reduces your 181.3 years lol here's an idea for yo why not add a metal plate between your locking screw and first block, this should prevent the screw denting n distorting the block n provide more overall even clamping pressure, just a thought 😉 oh n trust to your skills your better than you credit yourself for, at first I thought I was watching me in your video becoz I do the same thing lol very loudly 10/10 from me to you brother

Hey, hoping you see this. I have that same tablesaw but the red Diablo blades are thinner than the stock riving knife that came with. We’re you able to find a thinner one? I have been looking for awhile. The stock knife is too thick that makes the cuts get stuck when the material tries to pass.

Great work! I've made this jig too (and made a video haha) it's the absolute tits and versatile. Cheers

' that the woodfather actually designed the first variation of this jig' LOL That's only a minor reversal of 'Fisher's Shop' 's jig from years before. And if you find other similar jigs, some of the videos reference articles from the 1980's and before. None of this stuff is new, these are extremely minor variations of old ideas.

Shame you ended the video without showing the actual, correct pin size for correct width. I think that is the piece that'd make this a stand out jig.

For your next project make a kerf jig for making datto cuts for future jigs. Something else you can do if your kerf pin is slightly too small is add tape to it, that will add about .002-.004 inches (0.050-0.10mm) to the width of your cuts. If the pin was too loose you could simply sand it down a tad.

Bb

Hi Dave, I saw Inspire Woodcraft doing a very similar jig and he has a great way of accurately cutting the pin to exact blade width. This is his link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nsw5qlrdx2A.html it saves trial and error. Another thing that might be altering your cut tolerance is how tight you are tightening the blocks at the back. Compressing too much will make the gaps smaller and tighter

Yours is similar to the "Woodfather" design, but not exactly the same. I like yours better. The fact that there is wood out in front of your fence means you don't have to put anything down in front of it before you do a project like he does.

a lot of work, just go buy a dado stack for $100, the time to don't waste with this method you will pay you back many times.

The finger joint is tight because you compressed the template too much and your jig copied it perfectly.

Sorry, that's all I could stand, about 4 minutes. Please tell me, why do you guys not pronounce the "T" in words with a "T" in it? SOMETIMES. When you write those words, do you leave the "T" out? Why or why not!? It's maddening.

YES BUT THIS JIG HAS A PROBLEM. IF THE JOINTS ARE TOO TIGHT YOU HAVE NO WAY TO LOOSEN THEM.. SO YOU JIG SUCKS !!!!!!