A collection of jigs from Atelier du Bricoleur

[Cherryville Chuck]

I don't know how many here remember Daniel who went by the user name Santé but he was a member of RF for a while. He was quite talented and I missed him when he decided to devote all his time to Atelier du bricoluer. Daniel was from Belgium if I remember right but I know they also had many French members and we saw a few on RF.
There are quite a few jigs here with links to the description of how they were made. There are some other categories to have a look at too and all of the links I've opened so far had English as well as French.
https://atelierdubricoleur.wordpress.co ... igs-index/

[Nickp]

Good reminder...I do remember this...

[DaninVan]

I'm confused, i thought his name was Serge?

[Nickp]

Now I know why I don't have any room on my shelves...too many "one-time" jigs that are still waiting for "one-more-time"...

[Cherryville Chuck]

I'm confused, i thought his name was Serge?

You may be right Dan. I may have gotten the one Daniel belonged to confused with this one. It's a good collection of jigs anyway.

Nick I'm with you on one time jigs. In fact I try to keep my jigs as simple a possible so that they aren't worth saving. The only one I use very much is the TS crosscut sled so it has a spot and a long piece of ply which I can bolt to my unifence for straightening out boards with sweep when I rip them. Almost all the rest get dismantled as soon as I finish.

[Sominus]

How is Woodpeckers going to make any money now?

[Bushwhacker]

I was cleaning out my shop a while back (this is going to take a while since I am STILL cleaning my shop). I came across a shelve where i had been storing Jigs I made for various jobs. Most of them , I could not remember what they were gigs for.
So, I did the adult and intelligent thing. I moved them to another shelve.

Bushwhacker

[Sominus]

I was cleaning out my shop a while back (this is going to take a while since I am STILL cleaning my shop). I came across a shelve where i had been storing Jigs I made for various jobs. Most of them , I could not remember what they were gigs for.
So, I did the adult and intelligent thing. I moved them to another shelve.

Bushwhacker

Now that cluttered shelf is clear! Win win!

[Bushwhacker]

Exactly !

Bushwhacker

[Cherryville Chuck]

I was cleaning out my shop a while back (this is going to take a while since I am STILL cleaning my shop). I came across a shelve where i had been storing Jigs I made for various jobs. Most of them , I could not remember what they were gigs for.
So, I did the adult and intelligent thing. I moved them to another shelve.

Bushwhacker

Having exactly the same thing happen, i.e. going through them and not remember what they were for or in some cases not remembering how to use them either, is what prompted me to change jig strategy and build them as disposable versions. I found after that that I often didn't build the same jig for a job the next time I needed to do the same thing. You wind up building on gained experience and I think my jig building has become more efficient as a result.

[Herb Stoops]

Permanent jigs are for production work. When I got out of High School , I worked 2 summers in the jig shop at Boeing. Those were jigs that they used to build hundreds of assemblies on. One off woodworking like we do really doesn't need fancy jigs with specialized hardware. Unless you like to build jigs, like I do. The fun of them is that they hold the parts correctly for cutting,shaping or assembly. It is kind of a let down after you use it once and fun to see how easy it is to make a cut , then never use it again.
Herb

[Bushwhacker]

I have begun to write on the gig what it was made for. I was surprised at how many of my old gigs I did not know what I originally made them for.

Bushwhacker

[Cherryville Chuck]

Permanent jigs are for production work. When I got out of High School , I worked 2 summers in the jig shop at Boeing. Those were jigs that they used to build hundreds of assemblies on. One off woodworking like we do really doesn't need fancy jigs with specialized hardware. Unless you like to build jigs, like I do. The fun of them is that they hold the parts correctly for cutting,shaping or assembly. It is kind of a let down after you use it once and fun to see how easy it is to make a cut , then never use it again.
Herb

It's either like you said Herb to hold a collection of parts together (and in a specific relationship to each other) or to locate an operation to a specific spot such as in drilling a hole or making a mortise from piece to piece or to orient an operation to your work in a specific way such as at an angle or combination of angles as in making a chair. The first task in making any jig is to figure out exactly what it needs to do. Lots of times the building of the jig is easy when you have the first part figured out.

[Herb Stoops]

In the field you seldom built jigs, just cobble something together and go. Time was more of the essences. Unless you had to route the locations of 200 doors/ jams X 3 Butts each. Then you were usually furnished a factory jig set up. Now a days, that is subbed out to a millwork shop and the doors or most production type work is done off site and the installers just install in place.
I watched a factory machine bevel the door,mill the butts,and lock set locations,and poop it out as another was being milled in a matter of a few minutes.
HErb

[kmealy]

I'm confused, i thought his name was Serge?

Serge Duclos, a French-Canadian. Now retired, but he's been a very frequent contributor to magazine's handy hints sections for years.

[kmealy]

I only have a hand-full of jigs. Most, if not all, are sliding tables for the table saw. I can't see spending half a day to make a one-time jig when I can improvise and get it done in a couple minutes, even if I have to do by hand tools. That said, I did make a larger miter sliding table to do the quilt-pattern star that I made last week, but it only took me about 10 minutes to make