So I saw a video of this thin strip jig, and I had to order one. Fairly cheap on amazon, and seems to be quite good quality. The way it is used is to lock it down beside the blade and measure the 1/4 inch. Then lock that measurement in place, slide the rig back about an inch behind the blade and lock it in. It acts as a fence with rolling wheels. The last wheel locks up if the strip tries to go backward.
Here is where this thing works really well. If you have many boards to cut, and you can manufacure them all to be the same width to begin with. You move the fence each time you want to make a new strip, just by pushing the strip against the jig with the fence. This morning I jointed the edges of three boards, and then ran the other edge through the table saw so they were the same width. Then I set the jig. You push all three boards through before you move the fence for the next cut. It worked remarkably well and produced extremely consistent strips and was much easier to push, rather than having the thin strip between the fence and the saw. On Friday, I'm hoping to do 20 boards, it will take a few minutes to standardize them, but then the cutting will be really fast. Anyone else use one of these?
Here is where this thing works really well. If you have many boards to cut, and you can manufacure them all to be the same width to begin with. You move the fence each time you want to make a new strip, just by pushing the strip against the jig with the fence. This morning I jointed the edges of three boards, and then ran the other edge through the table saw so they were the same width. Then I set the jig. You push all three boards through before you move the fence for the next cut. It worked remarkably well and produced extremely consistent strips and was much easier to push, rather than having the thin strip between the fence and the saw. On Friday, I'm hoping to do 20 boards, it will take a few minutes to standardize them, but then the cutting will be really fast. Anyone else use one of these?
