We are having our house rewired at the moment which means there is chaos everywhere. We have had about 15 ceiling spotlights removed from the kitchen alone (previous owners went mad with them!). This leaves many large-ish holes in the ceiling which I need to now fill in with small circles of wood to then be plastered/stippled over.
I don't have a circle cutting jig and as I have many of these pieces to cut I thought this would be a good opportunity to make Steve Maskery's circle cutting jig for the bandsaw!! Fortunately I also have a Scheppach Basato bandsaw which has the same dimensions as the circle jig in his DVD series. This means I had nothing much to change dimensionally. It has taken a few hours but only because I am slow, and made a few school boy errors! I'm still getting to grips with using a table saw so every move is carefully calculated before pressing the big green button. I used my Woodrat to make the slots in the main board of the jig using a horizontal table (which is a Woodrat jig you need to make if you have a Woodrat). With some simple stops and a clamp guide setup on the horizontal table, I was able to easily cut the long slot for the adjustable circle pivot block.
I used the lathe to turn the needed pivots in some scrap ash. For the adjustable circle pivot block I used a threaded insert (M8) into which a similar sized bolt is screwed from underneath the jig. I didn't have any posh threaded plate handy! Anyway, below you will see a few photos, I haven't actually changed my bandsaw blade over to a smaller one yet (ran out of time tonight), so the blade has yet to cut into the actual jig. Once this is done then we can start making circles!
Thanks to Steve Maskery for his great DVD(s), they are truly inspirational and very helpful.
I need to make another jig now with a slightly smaller radius capability (~30mm radius) or I might be able to add a row of small holes which will take very narrow diameter pins/nails (between the closest point of the pivot to the blade). This jig has a minimum radius of about 65mm.
cheers
Steve
I don't have a circle cutting jig and as I have many of these pieces to cut I thought this would be a good opportunity to make Steve Maskery's circle cutting jig for the bandsaw!! Fortunately I also have a Scheppach Basato bandsaw which has the same dimensions as the circle jig in his DVD series. This means I had nothing much to change dimensionally. It has taken a few hours but only because I am slow, and made a few school boy errors! I'm still getting to grips with using a table saw so every move is carefully calculated before pressing the big green button. I used my Woodrat to make the slots in the main board of the jig using a horizontal table (which is a Woodrat jig you need to make if you have a Woodrat). With some simple stops and a clamp guide setup on the horizontal table, I was able to easily cut the long slot for the adjustable circle pivot block.
I used the lathe to turn the needed pivots in some scrap ash. For the adjustable circle pivot block I used a threaded insert (M8) into which a similar sized bolt is screwed from underneath the jig. I didn't have any posh threaded plate handy! Anyway, below you will see a few photos, I haven't actually changed my bandsaw blade over to a smaller one yet (ran out of time tonight), so the blade has yet to cut into the actual jig. Once this is done then we can start making circles!
Thanks to Steve Maskery for his great DVD(s), they are truly inspirational and very helpful.
I need to make another jig now with a slightly smaller radius capability (~30mm radius) or I might be able to add a row of small holes which will take very narrow diameter pins/nails (between the closest point of the pivot to the blade). This jig has a minimum radius of about 65mm.
cheers
Steve