Jigs and Fixtures - Page 10 of 15

The homemade device shown here is one of those gadgets that makes me wonder the proverbial, "Why didn't I think of that?" Designed by Andrew Kerley, the tool is a triangle…

You can't cope polyurethane molding, but a template, a simple jig and a little bit of luck make it possible to preassemble perfect miter joints.

We had a job recently that required thousands of studs, trimmers, sills, cripples and nonstructural headers. A lot of these parts were identical lengths, so we decided to rig up a…

A full-scale drawing and some shop-built jigs can ease the assembly of expensive stair parts.

Faced with drilling and countersinking holes in 25 wedge-shaped wooden pegs, I assembled a sturdy, adjustable vise from two wood scraps and three screws in one minute. As shown in…

Measuring along the bottom of the rafters and using a site-built jig simplify the process.

With a housed stringer on one side and an open, mitered stringer on the other, these stairs look harder to build than they are.

Cutting a profile in the exposed ends of rafters and beams is a nice custom touch, but it can also be tedious and time-consuming. When a job came up cutting…

A door specialist reveals a few shop-made accessories that make the job faster and easier.

Here's a fixture that my dad told me about a long time ago. It's a good alternative if you don't have a miter box at hand. As shown in the…