Assembly table - Best gluing jig ever!
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- This is one of those tools where once you have it, you can’t imagine doing without it. And like most good shopmade jigs, it’s simple to build and easy to use. Nick’s assembly tables offer a flat, rigid surface that has been slotted and perforated so you can attach a clamp anywhere you need one. The table helps hold the project together and keeps the pieces and parts properly aligned while the glue cures. Not only does this simplify assembly, your project comes off the table perfectly flat, square, and true. Plans are available at workshopcompanionstore.com/pr...
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I’ve watched a million woodworking videos and this one is up there with the best. Not for the idea, which is excellent, but for the way he presents his videos. No whacky stuff, no silly gimmicks, no ridiculous music (the speed up music is fine) and no filler. Everything to the point. Excellent. Subscribed.
Thanks and welcome. But -- full disclosure -- we get a little whacky on occasion.
@@WorkshopCompanion hahaha..
Einstein is the best out there, I agree 💯!!!... He has the best way of explaining himself!... If he was my teacher at school, I would never have gotten distracted (I suffer from ADD)... Most often he's too clever for me, therefore I watch all his videos at least 10 times!... Unfortunately I am able to like (👍) each video only once... I wish RUclips would allow me to like and subscribe to this absolutely great channel a million times!!! 👍👍👍🏅🏆🖐️🍻
He definitely does wacky, corny jokes, but he’s cool as ice, so he pulls it off no problem.
@@frederikmare9002 If you give a thumbs up to comments, or reply to other comments it all adds up and increases the benefits to a channel.
This guy is the shop teacher I would have loved
This is the best site on youtube if you really want to learn . I have purchased a couple plans and plan on more. Ty
Nick has a gift for explaining woodworking techniques. It is very useful to understand the different ways this jig can be used and modified. I love how he explains everything. I didn't understand why the slots were 6 3/4" apart versus 6".
The clamps I use most often -- bar clamps -- have a throat of 3 to 3-1/2 inches depending on the brand. So I don't let the distance between the slots extend beyond 7 inches. That way I can reach every square inch of the assembly table with the clamps I keep closest at hand. But if you want to space the slots at 6 inches -- or 5 or 4 or 3 -- you can. If all your most treasured clamps all have 5-inch throats, you can space them at 10 inches. Your call. In fact, I encourage readers to modify my jigs for their own needs. I present the jig designs on this channel as a jumping-off point.
I knew Nick was the Wizard of Wood! Seeing him magically make these tables appear just proved it😳
I have been watching a lot of wood working videos, and it occurs to me that I want to go and listen to all of them. Thank you sir for being the first person on u-tube to make me want that.
Good luck! Come back to us in 10 or 12 lifetimes and tell us what you learned...;-)
I feel like you know this about yourself Nick. I feel like you're the type of guy who understands himself really well and is truly genuine. So it should come as no surprise to you that the way you spin your hammer in the intro (and the clamp in this video) is exceedingly charming.
If you don't current have any sons, I'd happy fill out an application to be one of yours.
Also, I'll be building this gluing jig.
It's late, I'm working my way through today's correspondence, and yours made me laugh. Thanks for that, and for the kind words.
25 yeaes ago I was an exposed (finish) timber framer when I met my wife, who was terrified of me getting hurt. So I made a shift to working for a finish carpentry/bench carpentry contractor. Not having a clue about how to work with such little and fine pieces, I picked up a book, I think it was titled the "Finish Carpenter's Handook", by Nick Engler. I learned everything I needed to know to be a successful carpenter to this day. I am so delighted to find you here, online. I have the chance to say THANK YOU NICK! You are an inspiration, a teacher and a wizard. I am grateful for all that I have learned from you!
Most welcome.
Look at the twinkle in his when he shows prying the panel off with the clamp. He’s so proud of that clever feature. Love this.
Twinkle in my...what? I love that you left that to the imagination.
I built a torsion box workbench/outfeed a few years ago. It's so nice to trust that it's deadly flat.
It's a great trick -- just used a torsion box design to make two huge doors for a barn. They came out dead flat too.
I want to make the interior 3 inches. Drilling 1.5 inch holes in 2 inch plywood gives me the flutters. I bought the plans. This guy is woodworking RUclips all star.
As always, your videos are thorough, well demonstrated, organized and easy enough for individuals like myself to follow. Your contributions to our great community is both timeless and obviously selfless. Thank you for your time and efforts, they sure aren't wasted on this individual.
My sincerest gratitude ... Cheers!! dave
This guy is amazing! Very enjoyable to watch, why Disney didn’t cast him to play Maurice in the live-action Beauty and the Beast is beyond me
I was drawn to watch this video as I'm at the planning stage of building my own aircraft (a Jodel D11.) I thought this jig would be ideal for setting up fuselage bulkheads and I suspect it will have a great many more uses too along the way. Thank you!
If my former life, I built replicas of historic wooden aircraft for museums, and we made many jigs like this for assembly.
This more I watch you with the assembly table the more I learn!
I watched the build a few times then I built one and plan to start using it next week when I build new kitchen cabinet doors and drawers with my Shopsmith Mark 7. I always enjoyed your sawdust sessions fro back in the day. This was a simple build but it still takes time but I know that I will find it very useful. I used up some melamine that I had and ended up with a 22 x 37 surface. Thanks for all you do!
You're welcome -- and good luck with your new kitchen cabinet doors.
Has quickly become my favorite channel. The way projects and information are presented is truly easy to understand, even for beginners.
Great video. I’ve used my perfectly flat SawStop table saw as my glue-up table because it’s perfectly flat. Now that I bought the plans to this jig, it will free up my table saw! Thanks for the cool tip!
You're very welcome.
I love this channel! So much useful information without the constant advertising of useless tools. Keep up the great work sir!
That's good to hear. Thanks.
I make quite a few cutting boards and have been trying to design my own gluing jig to ensure squareness and flatness. This is exactly what I've been trying to come up with. Thank you! I will be purchasing your plans immediately.
WE made the larger version when we did the cutting board video, but have since found it useful for almost everything we do.
I can’t thank you enough for sharing this! This is exactly what I’ve been needing!
You're very welcome.
Thank you! Newbie here needs a lot of small and big tricks like the ones you show in all your videos!
You're welcome!
Love the glue table. Keep up the good work. Have a blessed day.
Thanks. You too.
That's an elegant solution to an age old problem. Thanks Nick. It's on the "to build" list. That pipe clamp rack is a lovely addition. Sure beats chasing the rolly suckers around!
Thanks for saying.
Actually this is even better... thank you Nick for all you do
You're welcome. And thanks for your kind words.
Just found this today and will incorporate these features into my next assembly table build well thought out and executed should have them in every trade school
Thank you. I originally made this for my own students.
You need your own syndicated television show!
I sincerely appreciate your sentiment and compliment, but RUclips, Facebook, and other streaming media are crushing syndicated television. I was once a successful how-to author, and that career was wiped out as social media replaced print media as a way to share how-to information. Can't afford to go that route again.
This is a fine example in how woodworking never gets old! Fine work indeed.
Oh, and love the music. =)
The jigg is great, but not only that you provide a handfull of useful tips on clamping and glueing.
Thanks 🤩
You're welcome.
You are the goat Mr. Gepetto.
Congrats!!
Perfect timing. I've been looking to build an assembly table for my VERY small workshop that I can store out of the way when not in use. Most of the videos out there are for workbenches that incorporate into the top, but I already have a very solid bench now. I just needed an assembly table I could use on occasion.
I just ordered the detailed plans and am going to build the perfect size for me. Good Job and thank you for the great video. Subscribed for sure.
You're most welcome...and welcome!
That probably was the best glue up table I've ever seen thanks. Now I I have to go buy alot of "C" clamps. Whew !
This design is really great for a small shop. I've seen a lot of work bench videos but this modular design is truly unique.
Thanks for saying.
Very Nice Multi Functional Assembly Table. Perfect For Any Type Of Projects.
Yes, thanks
Great job Nick! I came across your videos today and was instantly hooked. I binge watched about 10 and just subscribed so I can come back later. You sir are extremely talented. I’ve purchased a couple of your plans already. Thank you for your outstanding videos. I plan to stay tuned so don’t stop doing what you do! Cheers
Thanks for the kind words; come back often.
Can't get enough of this guy! Excellent instructional videos ..best on RUclips !!! Thank you so much🙏
Most welcome.
I have been thinking about a similar design for a specific purpose. Great to see a pro like you using the same theory!! Thank you for the video!
Most welcome.
Excellent fixture. Just perfect for someone with a nice workbench that doesn't have many clamping opportunities in the design.
Thanks for saying. We have three of these in our shop, and they all stay busy.
Omg that is exactly what I need. I'm gonna make one of those for my next project. Thanks!
Great idea - very useful! You are an exceptional teacher sir!
Thanks for saying so.
I just built this last night. Genius. I took a cabinet job never making doors before. I have all the equipment to do so just never did on a production scale. Well your jig just saved my rear end! Thank you for all of the fantastic content and making our woodworking lives a little easier! Keep the lessons coming! Thank you!
Most welcome. Glad to have been of some help.
Great video. I like that you started with the basics and kept adding on with all the different functions and that I didn't have to watch 5 separate videos. Thank you. Off to build my own.
Glad to be of help.
I made one of these this weekend to help with some Door glue-ups, I will be making more of them they are a tremendous help
We have three of them in our shop and they are stay busy. Glad to have been of help.
Love the simplicity and versatility of this design. I think the best part is that I could use it for a glue up and then move the whole piece to another location so I still had access to my work area for another project while the glue cures. Doing a large panel glue up causes me more dread in that I won't be able to use my work bench for several hours, rather than all the work of doing the actual glue up. Great jig Sir.
Thank you for your kind words. We have three of these (one big, two little), so we can do multiple glue-ups. We move these around constantly, our workbench remain clear, and we're always tripping over the glue-ups...;-)
@@WorkshopCompanion this makes perfect sense. It just reinforces the idea that the better you plan, the better your project will go. I will slowly start making some of these jigs, as it conveniently allows you to do more glue ups. Love it.
Nick, you’re awesome. Thanks for what you do.
Most welcome.
Nick, I built the Assembly table. Which I made a little larger than the smaller size. I have to say your design is well thought out and the table functions very well. I built the infinity clock as a Wedding present for my niece and the assembly table made that project go very well. Your plans are very well written and detailed. I now have a friend building his table after he saw mine and how well my glue ups went together. Thanks Marty
That's awesome. Thanks for the feedback.
I first noticed this jig when you made the cube clock a few videos back -it looks very useful
More than useful. It's become almost essential for some on the things we do here.
Wow, I need to build that asap. This guy reminds me of a mad scientist. Awesome content!
Whooooooaaaaa!!!!! your the director of the Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company??? How cool is that. I have been watching your wood working videos and had no clue your an Aviator.
Hurray! Was just waiting for this demo and the plans. Thank you!
You're welcome -- and thanks for watching.
Brilliant Nick. Glad I found you :)
Excellent video of a very useful jig. I purchased your books when they were first published and so was really happy to recently find your channel.
Thanks for watching -- and reading!
What a brilliant idea!
I love your tips, thank you.
Exuding passion for woodworking excellence. Bravo!
Thanks.
Ty so much Sr. for this incredible amount of woodworking knowledge!!!!
Most welcome.
This was an excellent presentation. Wonderfully organized. I'm glad I stumbled onto this.
Thanks. Stumble back often!
What a hoot. You made me smarter and I’m pretty sure you also lowered my blood pressure.
Very nice thank you! Another little project to build
Love how simple this is!
All the best jigs are simple. When I was writing woodworking books -- when people read to get this kind of information -- we had a rule: No jigs with more than ten wooden parts, and we worked hard to keep it under that. This comes in at nine.
Timing is everything. I see this after my built in cabinet cabinet project for the bathroom, walk in closet and hall way. Oh well, there is always the kitchen. I'll get to work.😉
Most impeccable work, sir.
Thanks.
Thankyou, I benefitted from your presentation . . . Chris . . . Norwich, England
You are 1 of a kind. A true teacher. Heck of a video
Thanks.
Sir, you are very entertaining to watch. I shal enjoy watching my way through your catalogue of exceptional work.
Sir, you are very kind to say so. Enjoy.
Wow NIck, this jig is super cool, portable and very practical. My small shop does not have room for a Paulk assembly workbench or a shop made version of an MFT table. Bought the plans for the jig and immediately went out for a sheet of melamine. Lost track of you after your sawdust sessions for ShopSmith. Built your drill press table many moons ago. Great to see and learn from you again. Best of success for your new website - looking forward to learning new skills and discovering new project from a master craftsman.
Good of you top say, Tom.
Thank you for your videos. God bless.
You're awesome dude. Keep up the good work!
ALL YOUR VID ARE OUTSTANDING
Great ideas, great presentation & humor, really makes me want to do more woodworking, thanks for all the content!
You're most welcome.
Best presentation of woodworking videos that I've seen. I feel like you're a friendly neighbor with great skills that I have the privilege of dropping in on to gain knowledge. Thank you for being "real" and sharing your skills with the videos that you make.
A brilliant, well thought out, simple jig. I could see this folded up against the wall and tilted down for glue ups if the space is adequate. Or slid underneath a large assembly table when it comes time to glue up the doors and drawers.
Thanks for saying.
Great job explaining everything thank you very much
You are a true craftsman
Thank you for your kind words.
Absolutely brilliant clamping table design! You've thought of everything from what I can tell. And if not like you say you can just change what you need. Excellent!
I will definitely have to build one of these as soon as I have a workshop built in my garden lol. (Im trying to get into woodworking for the last couple of years, accumulated 90% of the tools and jigs hand tools "old school"(second hand from retiring cabinet makers/carpenters over the last few years to go with a few I was left by my Grandad when I was a child he was a master craftsman before and after the war!) and now have many of the new, power tools I need, have a few to get still but I'm looking forward to making things like this myself and my own wooden bar clamps if I can and corner clamps like you have on this set up at the end. Anyhow this is one of the best most useful videos I've seen on RUclips for DIY woodworking tools/techniques, so thanks very much! I love your videos! Only just found your channel couple of days ago but subscribed straight away! REALLY want to learn the old school techniques and keep those skills alive.
Too much reliance on machines and throw away stuff that the literal ART-FORM and ingenious skills and craftsmanship that my Grandad possessed so I've heard from my family as well as other people who say learned their craft 50+years ago prior to power tools becoming prolific, they have skills tips techniques and ways of doing things that are being lost nowadays and i think it's EXTREMELY important that's kept alive as there is SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS that have been LOST to time ALREADY that we now do not know how old-time REAL "craftsmen" accomplished half of what they did both Woodwork/ carpentry/joinery and Stonework also Stonemasonry is another lost ART-FORM that's Almost been TOTALLY lost to time!
Very very FEW people have any of the old school skills that you see around the world Especially STILL here in England with ancient castles cottages houses, buildings, even village pubs and churches that are still in use! (My mates village local-Pub is so old, the doors are less than 5ft tall! The ceiling in places way less than 6ft or there abouts and all solid beams crooked walls now but ALL original about 400years old I think with ORIGINAL external doors and windows!!). Anyhow buildings like that blow my mind original Bar hand crafted probably from solid Oak etc, still in perfect condition a testament to the craftsmanship it's still solid and survived (despite the few hundred years of abuse its taken lol) Also fascinating to see how much smaller people were just a coupe hundred years ago! Even I have to duck and thats rare as I'm only 5'7" Lol
But it's mind-blowing when you see the woodwork and Stonemasonry that they produced perfectly 400 years or so ago without a single power tool or modern instrument, yet they still stand and survive to tell the story (until they're torn down by the throw away culture that is for glass buildings! Absolute travesty!)
Anyhow, sorry for the essay but REALLY APPRECIATE your hands on workmanship and craftsmanship skills! As I've always said the old saying goes "You CANNOT BUY experience!"
Thanks from London England 👍💪😎🏴🙏
Uh, wow. My normal response, "Thanks for the kind words," seems inadequate after a monogram like that. There should be some applause and the presentation of a plaque, at the very least. Know what you mean about the woodworking in your neck of the woods. Have been to England several times, wandering around places like Salisbury and Oxford and marveling at the lasting craftsmanship.
Awesome clamping table. It would solve a lot of problems great job
Thanks.
Wow. Right when I thought I was subscribed to every woodworking channel out here, I stumble on yours. I really enjoy your videos and learn a lot from them. I like this jig a lot and hope to make it soon.
Thanks for the kind words.
I had been using a scrap plywood pallet for an assembly table. I guess I just figured out how to take it to the next level!
Interesting application for a pallet -- very clever.
Great video. I bought your plans and have already built two small and one large assembly tables. These assembly tables make my simple build projects so fast and easy now. Problem is now I need more clamps. Not a bad problem to have. Thanks
Most welcome.
GREAT Video, I will be making this Assembly TABLE soon, makes your work so much easier. THANKS
Most welcome.
glad I found you! what a great resource!
We're glad you found us too!
Made it. Love it. You deserve an award!!!
Glad to have been of help.
THANX. FOUND YOU NOT LONG AGO AND I'M VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT. I LIKE THE WAY YOU EXPLAIN STUFF AND YOUR JOYFULNESS DOING SO. AND THIS JIG IS A BEAUTY.
Thank you for saying so.
Great design!!
I want one!
This man is such a legend!!
Great jig to have around!
Excelentes información y asesorías en sus vídeos, agradezco tanta valiosa aportación que nos ayuda en el crecimiento de nuestras carreras; saludos desde Ensenada, B.C., México.
Saludos desde Estados Unidos. Y gracias por sus amables palabras.
Honestly this is wonderful. Thank you.
Most welcome.
Great idea and your explanation was good
This is my new favorite channel, such awesome tips and tricks. Thanks for your amazing content!
Kind of you to say so.
I love your assembly table...Thanks for sharing.😉👍👍
You're most welcome.
Great video, I had the opportunity to see your sheet of plywood video, from carrying to loading and cutting. Ordered the project plans. Easy down load. Thank you for sharing and your explanation of each project video.
Most welcome.
Fantastic. Thank you.
Great jigs. Very helpful video. I’m surprised that RUclips did not take me to your channel before now with all the years that I’ve been watching it and glad that I finally got connected to your site.
Thanks for saying.
I've been building this jig for the last day or so. I still need to route the slots. I haven't built something for myself in a while, but this was fun, and practical. Plans were spot on.
Thanks for sharing.
@@WorkshopCompanion Holy Cow!!! Never routed particle board before. The mess was quite impressive.😅
@@MarioG2912 Try MDF. You'll need three shop vacs and a front-end loader to clean up afterwards.
I never find one of those carpenter square really 90 degrees but that project is a great idea thanks 😊
Most welcome. And by the way, carpenter squares usually need to be "tuned" to make them truly square. We'll show how to do that in an upcoming vid.
that clock is amazing
Referred by Growth Rings (AKA Mr. ToolHunter). This stuff is Gold. Thanks!
Scott's a gem -- thanks for taking his advice.
Thank you for making it simple. Chuck
Most welcome.
Thank you
I'm wanting to know where have you been all of my life. You do an awesome job on explaining things.
Thanks.
love it. fantastic presentation and decision explanations
Thanks.