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Hi there,

I'm starting to make plans to make my own little workshop. I'm missing quite a bit of material, so I though I'd start with the "jig making" part.

What kind of jigs is working well for you?

Cheers

Aerith.

Start building your guitar - and you will quickly find out.

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nifty! my complaint with the schnieder gramil is i can't see the cut. does this jig solve that? also, where the heck is the blade held?

thanks!

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No blade, uses a laminate trimmer. Works very, very well.

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ah ha. adding that one to my list.

i built a coping sled last night for cutting stile and rail tenons for face frames on my shaper. works really well.

i'm jig CRAZY

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Bonjour!

I am a beginner, but the first jig I made was my plate joining jig to join backs and tops. I don't have pictures as I am on Business travel right now (actually in Paris, and will be back and forth all summer - let me know if you are in Paris anytime soon).

If you do a search you should see a number of jigs to join tops/backs in the archives.

Glenn

Aerith,
That is a pretty general question making it tough to give any type of answer. Do you already have a wood shop? The first jig is really a list of building goals, what type of work will you do, acoustics, electric, classical, arch top? Hand tools or power, one offs or small shop production? Do you have any tools to start with? Do you have a book yet that you plan to work from?

To get started, I recommend a big list divided into processes, plates, rims, neck, assemble, finish, setup are the basic steps or parts, then based on your build goals and budget you will be able to ask some more specific questions. Sorry for the non-answer, but there are many methods and jigs and they are based on build goals and philosophy.
Although a huge undertaking to build a guitar, it is still a finite list of tools, jigs, and materials, and the better the list, the less down time waiting for parts to arrive, scratching your head and chin wondering what to do next, and more time making shavings.


Sounds like fun, post some pics of the project in "off topic" we cabinet guys turned luthier would love it.
Rob

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I am more of a fan of making jigs when you need them (same thing for tools). There are some situations where you will need to tweak the jig design to match your environment. It makes for a reeeeeaaaallly slow build for your first guitar. But your subsequent builds will go much much faster. There were times when I decided the Jig was too complex for me to make, so I decided to just do the process by hand. You learn a lot that way.

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I am new to this and I have spent 90% of my time making or thinking about jigs and 10% building guitars !

This is driven by my strategy that I will not make just one guitar but many, so there is natural tendency to want to make repetitive processes easier.

J

I think my first jig for building guitars was a sled to make my first fixture, my radiused dishes. I then built a go-bar deck, a lightbulb side bender (since converted to semi solid form for blanket), and a fixture for clamping the neck/headstock scarf joint. The last major jig I made was the binding machine. All have been useful and will continue to be, though I'm sure I will adapt and modify as time goes on

Darrin

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showth ... p?t=400718

There are some really great jigs within these 11 pages or so. I felt it was bookmark worthy

Hi everbody,

I realise my question is a bit "unprecise". My personnal goal is to make Accoustic Steel String guitars. I wasn't thinking about any particular part of the making for this topic. I just thought it might be interresting to see what kind of jigs different people came up with. I'm still a beginner, and right now I thinking about making during the weekend with handtools. Obviously I'll have to think about my own design for jigs to match with what I want to make. Still there are some interresting ideas that came up and for that I thank you all.

Does anyone know anything about traditional spanish making jigs?

cheers