week 5

This week I researched some good ways to make jigs in order to get better fitting joints. When making joints, usually you have to cut slots or indents on a table saw. If you didn't already know, a table saw isn't a very accurate machine if you're trying to get two things to fit perfectly together. But if you have a jig and you cut all of your piece on the same jig, they should all be exactly the same. I'm thinking that i definitely want to make a jig at least for my tenon joints on the coffee table. From what I found, jigs are pretty easy to make, you can pretty much slap a couple pieces of wood together and no matter what, if you use the same jig, all the cuts will be identical.

 here is an example of someone's home made jig