How To Make A Bandsaw Cutting Jig For Pattern Woodworking | 1412 Bandsaw

Glad to see a red tool that I can afford 😉

Thank you for the practical tips!

I love how you even painted it red so it looks like the rip off woodpeckers tool they just released

That is slick! Great job, guys, thanks for the share.

I made two of these following this video. My band saw is only a 10” model so I had to make the jig a little shorter. I measured from the furthest distance I could mount it to my fence to make it as long as possible. I’ve used them over the past two days. My first observation is obvious-that there’s a trade off between the width of the opening and the ability to follow steeper curves. Using a 1/4” blade, I wanted to follow a lot of curves in my templates. However, given my 10” bandsaw, there’s a limit to how much you can turn the stock because I can come into to contact with the fence and can’t continue a curve. So I have to remove the fence and freehand certain curves. Also, with an opening just slightly larger than the 1/4” blade, because I’m trying to maximize the ability to follow curves, it’s impossible to avoid the blade touching the front inside of the opening. It’s fine for awhile but eventually it breaks off. I made “replacement openings” out of 1/4” mdf and glued them on top of the Formica and then power sanded down the other side so the template doesn’t get too thick. Then, the process repeats…except for when I dropped the jig and broke one of the opening sides off. 😢 If one were to want to improve on the design, I would try to incorporate replaceable “tips” made out of something more durable like hard plastic that could easily be changed. When I first made these, they were beautiful. I used white Formica but they looked nice. Now, they don’t look so good, but they work… with some issues. 😢

Thumbs up to Laguna for putting out a video on how to make a useful, generic jig that people can whip together with scraps. There's a time and a place to drop cash on a factory made jig but this is not one of them. This concept is so simple and works great with a Kreg fence. If you have a smooth fence, just give the vertical piece enough height to give yourself a wide range of clamping heights.

Brilliant

Nice jig. And I like the colour 👌

What router bit was that? I've never seen such a huge fish trim bit and it would be perfect for guitar neck templates. Great video btw, making this over the weekend. Thanks!

Nice jig!

Best bandsaw template jig on the internet !!!!!