Toolmaker/Jig maker.....George Here. 

 
An "Ordinary" website with "Xtra" products.

Thank You.... to our customers and visitors!  Along with the original  wood jigs, this site is now filled with E-books about woodworking history, craft history, shop history and more, including many new and  elusive techniques found nowhere else but here.  
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All of the electronic books and manuals offered for 
instant download are written and made possible  by 
in-house woodworker, writer, toolmaker...



.....meaning that most of the information included is very  useful, independent or Xtraordinary.  

If you are an industrial arts teacher or technical school instructor, you will appreciate the information included with our wood jigs in particular. 

Building woodworking jigs can ensure the accuracy of your work. Jigs ensure and qualify that the correct location of individual components will be precise and that each operation is in the exact same location. Then each procedure can be duplicated identical from first to last. To make things in volume, you need to contain each process with a certain level of precision, and guarantee that each procedure in any operation is duplicated the same. Also, duplication means you need to regulate your system, to categorize every operation and standardize each part; each and every process. 

Sure, their are procedures and standards to follow, but, "Un-think" some principles we thought were the only way to go.   That is, if we can't afford the latest supplies or the best technology,  we can improve by finding better ideas in all facets, and by possibly testing and developing what works better.  

You may have once thought that hand made stuff would be the best you could do. But really, hand made is for hobbies, for making models, or for pastimes or the very few who have a well established reputation by  making things in that manner.  I like to think that hand made is more for making models, or for a one shot, very limited, often detailed project, or even occasional or test projects. To specialize in hand made, custom built guitars, or by making things by hand has it's expenses and some limits. For the majority of those who would like make things on a professional scale, learn to build jigs for almost each operation. Some people search and search for tools and machines, or search for bargain supplies and never discover the precision, even the productive potential of jigs in a shop.  As an example of what I mean, just watch the news.  They often like to visit a family owned operation 
where things are made by hand.  Either it is a small chocolate shop or 
an artist, or candle shop.  They rarely emphasize the need to advance to a level where precision, where jigs or automation are employed.  They almost always emphasize the integrity and the worth of a "Family owned, home made, hand made theme."  Sure, this is a setting set apart from the rigid corporate bustle, but often the news stories are telling little about the need for waste saving, high tech automation and job creation which begins with a predictable, gauged  and measured, guess-free operation.  

"Don't make just one..."
With the Mascut 1.0, and the included books, you will discover volume, accurate duplication almost instantly.   Then duplicate ideas in volume, or even instruct the "small fry"  how to easily gauge parts, to produce a surplus; duplicate furniture parts, and much more.   Even show a young woodworker how they can make the best use of machines, using a saw to make predictable parts like a small factory.  Even new  furniture businesses can be created by using a system of local suppliers with the skills to make their parts in more  volume.  Our jigs, especially the online delivery of some books and materials will surprise you like many others.  The best tool or the cheapest tool is no longer the question.  It becomes, what is the best way to arrange this or the best way to arrange the next step or operation.  

"Pump up the volume"

Having a precise operation in woodworking becomes really interesting 
when many discover that most of the pleasure is in the production mode.  It's not always "what is the best tool, or what is the cheapest tool, or where do I get that power tool."  Precise volume is a new, much more interesting goal for those who really know machines and their full, accurate potential.  That is how manufacturing happens, one operation at a time.  Then when you are done with one operation, you set a target to finish the next.   With a precise jig, you follow through ensuring that there is little chance of missing the mark with any of the operations. With a Mascut, it becomes more like "making things on the fly."  You make a cut, turn it, maybe make another cut, and then drop it in the bucket or bin!  They get hooked and say "Why didn't I get one sooner."  It prevents  guessing, it sometimes solves merely buying more, shiny chrome or platinum tools, and maybe using a few precision tools to ensure accuracy.  The Mascut 1.0 is precise. 

  Woodjig.com was first online in the spring of 2001.  You might ask...Why name the company "Xtra Products?"  Well, it sort of 
stands for extraordinary, which means beyond common.  

See Toolmaker/Jigman.....George Here. 

 
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"If they found a niche, an idea, and a  method to manufacture...they would need machines." 

When you clearly describe to others about making things in volume, or getting the most from their tools, just like the guy making the low budget movie, you need to discover a niche.  Another niche, or another angle different from the massive hobby media.  Even with the huge woodworking tool business, you need to get the word out about making things in volume for example,  in order to help them.  In other words, the machine tool industry needs a boost.  Machine tools are not flying out the door.   But, getting it done and selling machines without  misguiding some people about the demands of business is another thing.   

Just having skill and ordering a new saw doesn't touch on many of the  details.  The arts and crafts media have provided millions of hobbyists their stories, plans, tools and guides and even some television.  But, they are rarely into many advanced business principles, or how they relate to woodworking and to the arts or to crafting.  We still see crafters who are very ambitious, very knowledgeable, but know little about making things in volume.  Some even say that hand made, custom, singular production is the only way, or a way in which the majority of the economy could prevail.   They are unaware of tool making, precision machines, or the massive advances in automation. 

Making more in volume is where the next level resides, and the economist really begins to take a peek at the quantity, sales, and purchases and says; "They found a niche, an idea, and a  method to manufacture...they will buy machines."  It is the hobbyist in motion, one discovering and advancing that keeps the industry, beginning with the craft and hobby media afloat.  Yet, in order to be careful, to stay conservative,  all of the edits result in published stories that are cautious about recommending a business bend to their readers craft or hobby.  In other words, the traditional world media realizes that turning many hobbies, or woodworking into a business is expensive, especially if you have to buy your own hardwoods.   They rarely mention the "Biz" word, because most people may need to try very hard keeping and enjoying their current job.  That's reasonable, but then again, people need to know about duplication and automation in order to increase an interest in machines.  There is not always an agreement about how to present the concept; to draw more into the idea about the capability and  potential that machines, used correctly have.  

The next link in the loop is numerous government agencies, specifically the SBA, who recommends, probably carefully, that everyone pursue a business slant.  They would encourage a method, or an accountable system of uniformity, duplication and delivery...carefully, and methodically.  They would suggest that manufacturing has many beginnings in  woodworking, in those who test the waters, each according to his skill level and financial ability.   The business twist, the extra mile begins by establishing more of a  knowledge of the complex processes, of what business demands and how they can be met.  It is a sequence, a process that develops into ideas, into new or better products, and then if possible, a goal of more volume and then consistent,  mistake free delivery.  

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Production woodworking?  
Make furniture?
Technical schools, trade schools;  Want to mass produce 
furniture, crafts?  Inquire about the MASCUT 1.0

Want to know the best possible way to make box joints:
 inquire about the [MINNIE CUT] 

Instructors....make more than one with a Mascut 1.0
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We have Two innovative and precision wood jigs.   The Mascut 1.0 and the MINNIE CUT are invented by and marketed only by us.  As of this time, we are the only source for these two jigs.  We also have various other woodshop products, E-books, and more.