Table saw info

What about inventors, innovators, crafters and artists?
By George at Woodjig.com 12/2007

Duplicate on a saw.

This is a little offbeat, but it explains some things about tools
from a new perspective.

I have built and delivered close to two hundred woodworking devices since 2001.
When you clearly describe to others about making things in volume, or using their tools, or making
box joints effectively, like the guy making the low budget movie, you almost have to outdo
the moguls of the hobby media in order to help them. It is the hobbyist in motion, one
discovering and advancing that keeps the industry afloat.

Woodworking; making things in volume and getting things bought and sold is vital. It
leads to advanced work with tools and machines. In another woodworking story here there is a mention
of how Economists (and those in the counting house) consider a machine as working capital. When it is
not producing a surplus, or generating products, then it is non-working capital.

"At all times it is better to have a method."

Read "Jigs and Gauges" for beginners too... MORE

We can’t stop progress from advancing because the influential and famous (not saying this in a
negative sense) too often unknowingly become a barrier to progress from outside. For example;
how many times are we going to see mega-stars, star news, and drama everywhere when the economy
might need to be more serious about our inventors, innovators, mechanics and crafters? Sure we have
American Inventor, Martha Stewart, and a few shows on cable TV about making things, working in a shop.
But few of these TV shows know about, or mention the practicality of making things in volume, and
establishing principles and methods needed in an economy.

“It saves more time to make a batch than it does to make everything from scratch.”

Would we make just one Lexus, one MAC truck, or only one Rolex?
My rant here is about how people don't seem to focus on what's going on inside the gears.
They need to use their tools with practical means, because some very skilled people really want to
know, and can develop into something big. Some can do the work of two or more people, called a
surplus, and using jigs and gauges and combined with certain machines, the possibilities are infinite.
If more people knew just about jigs alone, they could become more familiar with common woodworking
tools, even learning how to make things in high volume. The ultimate devise is where a table saw is
fitted with a crosscut box, which is then the starting point for which jigs can do precision high
volume machining of wooden parts.

Knowing about jigs is a good way for beginners to increase their interest in woodworking. With the help
of certain jigs and fixtures, a table saw can produce consistent, uniform, interchangeable parts. This is the
mostly forgotten basics of mass production. Done properly, building jigs is what leads to high volume work.
They are devices used to manufacture interchangeable parts using even common machines many people own.
Just by starting out with a “solid gauge” box joint jig, things which use to be tough
become more natural to accomplish.

Right now artists and craftsman around the world attempt to produce a work of art, dreaming to
produce and then successfully sell a winning product. Maybe even a product that might be in demand
one day. What they need to do is what most manufacturers do. They need to duplicate a winning piece,
and mass produce it. More people need to learn the importance of wood jigs, even if it
just saves good hardwood

Here is part of the problem....

Many, many people rush into a hobby, or into woodworking by purchasing numerous expensive
machines. They thrive for awhile dreaming of some time in the future where they will produce
something, be self sufficient, become self reliant upon their craft. Many have tried this, and then
found out that hand made artwork without a duplication method often requires so much hand work
that for the average person, it is not very profitable.

Woodworkers can then expand their hobby and their productivity if they “Unlearn” many misconceptions of
what tools do. If we focus more on….. “high volume” than just “making things the best”, then we can break
out of the mold. We can then focus on progress. Just because things are mass produced, doesn’t mean it is low
quality. Learn to build jigs, because they are permanent, used over and over, and they are quickly set aside
and a new one accurately ready for the next batch or process. In other words, they goof proof things.

Even some experts in woodworking or who own fine machines lose interest. Many get discouraged or
maybe they have been use to making things by hand, or using only outdated techniques. Few people for
example know that most table saws with a cast iron table can become a precision machine. Most
table saws have two accurately milled miter slots. These slots hold a cut through the blade uniform and
straight. What some new table saw owners don’t realize is that these two slots enable a saw to
become a precision tool. This means that an ordinary table saw, with a few simple additions
can become a high volume machine, making uniform batches of wooden parts for assembly.

This means that with the help of certain jigs and fixtures a saw can produce consistent,
uniform, interchangeable parts. This is the mostly forgotten basics of mass production.
Done properly, with teamwork and certain other expertise this is what leads to an economy
of scale, a high volume economy. An economy of tradable goods begins with the unique but
basic knowledge of how to manufacture interchangeable parts using precision tools.

All being said, people can gain enormous skill from using a box joint jig, especially one with
solid little pin gauges. These are Cool Tools.

Why know how to duplicate or.... how to make box joints?

In the manufacturing industry many shop hands spend their whole careers perfecting only a few
operations with machines. Many perform operations using the same, time honored tools, many of them
producing precision, quality parts. In other words, in manufacturing, most machine operators
do not require many of the vast planning, “pre-production” skills. (This is the principle behind the
division of labor). The ones who do the brainy work, the planning, “pre-production” skills are the engineers
and shop leaders. They are often the ones who create the original plans, the jigs, the fixtures and the
designs. These are the ones who understand, often after decades of effort, the true productive value of
gauging, locating, and innovative ability. Those who graduate to the level of jig maker or fixture
makers, automation technicians, and engineer know the “real” value of machines, not the
undeveloped, basic, perceptive value.

Right now, an innovator, a creator who looks at an idle machine doesn’t see an iron edifice with
switches, gears and motors, but something with vast capability. What a box joint jig does (one with solid,
interchangeable gauges) is to change many of it’s user’s from an observer of machines to
someone who finally sees it. They employ a sequence of steps to effectively produce box joints.
Someone who learns how to use just simple, but accurate gauges can discover the true productive
potential of a table saw. Then, not only do owners make nice box joints, but they can go on to
apply the principles to make many machines become more productive and yielding. Many
jigs, especially a box joint for instance is a stepping
stone towards woodworking mastery.

The beginner, or “Novice” gains great insight into woodworking when they understand jigs…. Once
you master certain woodworking techniques, like using a (solid gauging) box joint jig, things which use
to be tough become much more natural to accomplish. When you learn to use jigs, especially a box
joint jig, you can do all sorts of projects such as making boxes, humidors, component parts, PC
stands, mobile phone stands, or mobile phone accessories, storage for computer items, wooden
trays and stands. You can build mini toys, storage items, furniture, chests, letter trays, pen boxes,
candy dishes, stationary holders, CD holders, cassette holders, video holders, filing stands,
coasters, magazine holders, and many, many more.

There really is a “secret technique” to it. When woodworkers use a table saw to make
box joints for example, it is a genuine benefit in the shop. And it saves good hardwood.

Want to sell your woodworking projects at a
neighborhood fair, market, or craft shows?
Then you need a device to make components accurately
and consistently, with precision, and now it's possible.
Our books and jigs can be your solution.

Few Minutes....Download $12.95, at.... PAYPAL

For all other Credit cards...

Download's only..... 24/7
All Major Visa / MC Now $12.95
Download size is approximately 6-700 kb.
Windows PC. 98-XP and up... You will be directed to download the full version.
Here

Not only is this is truly a very thorough, proven box joint technique,
many will learn a method that is a genuine benefit to the shop. Now, the
book includes a link to download the BONUS E-book called......

"The 50 Giants of Industry"
A very interesting historical account of the top 50 most notable
greats in the history of science and the arts. Few people have any idea
how influential these Giants were.   Much of the world's progress
is the result of "The 50 Giants of Industry"   The "Gentle Giants."

We rarely get into it critically enough to be convinced of the
amount of contribution these 50 Industry Icons (many unknown) made to
productivity and the potential that machines were capable of, even before the the
1900's had begun. These "Giant Hearts" fought adversity, doubt, critics, and
setback, and selfishly gave mankind it's value. It sounds like hyperbole during
some pretty mix up times, and mixed ideas and views of history, but when it
all boils down, society would not be a very welcome place without them. If we
lost everything tomorrow, all of the benevolence we would receive
might just be the result of the richness and depth that productivity has
engraved into Western society.

A few want to see this book as required reading in trade
schools...its FREE with the box joint manual.

Somebody once said....

"Advice is seldom welcome, and those
who need it the most, like it the least"
The best advice is to plan, innovate, and
learn to duplicate, and have a Giant Heart.

A locked mine...
For too many, owning a shop full of machines is a short lived
hobby, like owning a mine, and covering the entrance and never
knowing its full potential.....George-woodjig.com

"At all times it is better to have a method."
We could be doing a 1,500 piece puzzle, but that
doesn't improve our production methods......

Woodworking tools became tailored mostly to those looking for a
pastime. Consequently most of the tools and machines available have
been intended for hobbies and wood crafting...until Woodjig.com
Those who build jigs and who discover how to automate
see their machines for what they really are. A means to do things
better, more efficient and more productive. This begins when
their is insight shared in books like ... making box joints.

Duplication jig? This is the website for the rare Kahuna
of table saw devices. It also includes "Ingenious Machines and
Methods" on CD. Plus ...The box Joint manual, and the included
Woodworking DVD called "Duplicate like a Pro"
On Sale Now....~New and Improved~
U.S. Shipping Only