These are the very early stage of a design I’m working on for a Box Joint jig that only requires a single blade.
I’m too cheap to purchase a dado stack, especially until I’m certain that it will fit my saw, plus I can live without one for at least the next couple months. I would purchase plans that are already out there, but all the ones I’ve seen are designed for a dado stack; they can do single blade cuts but as that is not what they were designed for, they generally seem to require a bit of messing around to do so.
It’s only the early mockup so there are plenty of issues with it, but I think it may have some promise. Only one way to find out.
So the cut process would be:
- Slide the jig til the pin hits the right of a template wall, make a cut,
- Slide jig so the pin hits the left of that wall, make cut,
- Make multiple cuts hogging out the material for that joint,
- Lift pin up, slide jig over and drop pin into next section, repeat cuts.
I believe the spacing of the ‘turret’ wall needs to be the desired finger thickness, plus the width of the key plus the width of the blade. I’ll figure that out for sure through some trial and error when I get around to building it. Having the drawer runners mounted sideways may be an issue as well, I’ll have to check that out, maybe I’ll just make a simple wood slider instead.
What do you think, any chance of working?