Caveman jigs

[Dave Bagwill]

I had some free time so threw together a couple of caveman-easy things to make life easier.
I copied a mm scale and an inch scale from the computer, taped it to an old ruler with clear tape, marked the mm on one side and repeated with an inch scale on the other. The good thing is that '0' is in the center, which makes find the center of a board real easy to find. I have a Woodpecker's scale that does the same thing but it's 24" long and I don't need that much, much, muchacho.

A fretboard radius jig, loosely based on Ken's suggestion. Works just fine - I hold the fretboard down with the double-sided masking tape/CA trick, which I use for everything I can now.

The dremel now can be used like a little bottom-mounted router. It's just handy.
The 45 degree bench stop is for accurate miters on fretboard bindings etc. Actually more accurate than my miter box, go figure.

Also made a 5" tall mini-workbench that sits on top of my HF bench - no more hunching over.

[John Link]

Nice ideas.

[Dave Bagwill]

My wife was going through some junk I had marked for throw-out, and she found the miter gizmo that I'd not been able to successfully use - yard-saler for $3 I think.
I thought it SHOULD work fine so I hauled into the shop, took it apart (simple), straightened a few things and voila! It works.
I mounted it on the mini-workbench (I just 1/4" dowels instead of screwing or gluing things like the bench together - in a small shop it pays to have things that you can set up and then take down quickly, and the friction of the dowels is enough to hold the miter gizmo in place, as well as hold the mini-bench together and hold it to the main bench as well.)

Anyway NOW it cuts wickedly good miter joints.

Also, since I've got it, a pic of beauty and the beast and some goats grazing outside her sister's house in Arizona last week. Some yaks were grazing off to the side somewhere.