Let me make this simple . . . you are a genius! I'm not a wood turner, at least not yet, so I probably won't be making 5 point stars, but your method for truing the fence to 90°, with or without a laser seems to me to be easier and as accurate as the 5-cut method. Don't get me wrong, I love the theory behind the 5-cut method, but I simply couldn't make it work!! Probably for the same reason you didn't want to rely on using paper to gap your adjustment, I just kept going back and forth. But I really like your method, and it has the added benefit of only cutting 2 sides, so the depth never changes. You could trim it down several times and simply sneak up on a practically perfect alignment without even doing any calculations, although that may take a little longer! And even though I'm not turner, I will be using your 60° jig to make patterned boards! I LOVE IT ALL! THANKS!!!!!
Thanks for an excellent tutorial ... angularity error increases as to distance. The fact that you used the laser over a large distance to set to the small distance means that you are now cutting smallest in error ... in fact (as a guess), 1/3 of the tolerance required. Many thanks for the detail in time and thought. You've provided a means for me to measure a very high dollar sled as to total accuracy and precision. I'm now more interested than ever in the measured response. Please provide more videos of your jigs, thoughts behind them, and methodology for proving. Thanks again!
I made a jig that is simple and easy to eliminate the degree of error. Use an automotive feeler gauge . Find the degree of error and divide by 10 and then grab the feeler gauge.
Great video. Something tells me that you must be an engineer to be such a perfectionist. However I use the Wedgie sled and a digital angle measurer to set the angles. Mine is accurate to a tenth of a degree. That's about as close as you can get when working with wood. I made mine out of HDPE cut from a kitchen chopping board so that it will not warp or shrink.
why would you re-cut the five pieces that already fit perfect? If you wanted to set the fence to 54 degrees you could have used one of the perfectly cut pieces to do that, by filling the cut of the kerf with a piece of aluminum or wood and bringing the fence in to match the angle. beautiful finished products though! Ken
I’m with the other commenters Stick 5 pcs of paper I’d use masking tape Or the feeler gauge I just built one 30” tall and ended up w 3/16 gap I added I pc of masking tape and bingo! 1 hour after jig was built I was glued up
Take the degree of error and divide it by ten, take an automotive feeler gauge, set that thickness. Easy math for all that don’t have a degree in math. The jig I have is easily adjusted.
I was impressed with your presentation no music just information I have learned a great deal from this one, ThankYou
What kind of table saw do you have in your presentation?
Let me make this simple . . . you are a genius!
I'm not a wood turner, at least not yet, so I probably won't be making 5 point stars, but your method for truing the fence to 90°, with or without a laser seems to me to be easier and as accurate as the 5-cut method. Don't get me wrong, I love the theory behind the 5-cut method, but I simply couldn't make it work!! Probably for the same reason you didn't want to rely on using paper to gap your adjustment, I just kept going back and forth. But I really like your method, and it has the added benefit of only cutting 2 sides, so the depth never changes. You could trim it down several times and simply sneak up on a practically perfect alignment without even doing any calculations, although that may take a little longer!
And even though I'm not turner, I will be using your 60° jig to make patterned boards! I LOVE IT ALL! THANKS!!!!!
Jim, I love the detail and effort you put into your videos. Thanks for the project.
Thanks for an excellent tutorial ... angularity error increases as to distance. The fact that you used the laser over a large distance to set to the small distance means that you are now cutting smallest in error ... in fact (as a guess), 1/3 of the tolerance required. Many thanks for the detail in time and thought. You've provided a means for me to measure a very high dollar sled as to total accuracy and precision. I'm now more interested than ever in the measured response. Please provide more videos of your jigs, thoughts behind them, and methodology for proving. Thanks again!
Very nice 56:28
I really wish you would tell us Dimensions of the wood.
I would really like to make the plastic triangle but I need some sort of Dimension.
When you correct the 90 aren't you changing your 36 or 54 ???
Really good video but no Dimensions.
You could use a filler gauge also.
Great video. Can you tell me where I can get the 36-54-90 degree triangle
Couldn't you use a set of feeler gauges fairly cheap at harbor freight
Absolutely
What the hell are you. An aeronautical engineer or something? I have a BS mathematics and I can’t keep up. Amazing!
Jim is a retired Quantum Physicist
@@southplainswoodturnersinc7170 it figures . . .
Have you sold the plastic jig.?
I made a jig that is simple and easy to eliminate the degree of error. Use an automotive feeler gauge . Find the degree of error and divide by 10 and then grab the feeler gauge.
Great video. Something tells me that you must be an engineer to be such a perfectionist. However I use the Wedgie sled and a digital angle measurer to set the angles. Mine is accurate to a tenth of a degree. That's about as close as you can get when working with wood. I made mine out of HDPE cut from a kitchen chopping board so that it will not warp or shrink.
why would you re-cut the five pieces that already fit perfect? If you wanted to set the fence to 54 degrees you could have used one of the perfectly cut pieces to do that, by filling the cut of the kerf with a piece of aluminum or wood and bringing the fence in to match the angle. beautiful finished products though! Ken
I’m with the other commenters
Stick 5 pcs of paper
I’d use masking tape
Or the feeler gauge
I just built one 30” tall and ended up w 3/16 gap I added I pc of masking tape and bingo!
1 hour after jig was built I was glued up
Can’t hear anything
Take the degree of error and divide it by ten, take an automotive feeler gauge, set that thickness. Easy math for all that don’t have a degree in math. The jig I have is easily adjusted.