DIY Circular Saw Crosscut and Router Jig
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- I recently got my hands on a new circular saw, so I made a crosscut jig to get the most out of it. This is the third time I've built one and it's super handy to have in the shop. I think this is the best one so far.
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I have seen quite a few of these types of jigs being built on You Tube and the reason I like yours the best is that it doesn't require any esoteric materials and is multi functional. Thank you very much for this video.
This has to be one of the best circular saw cross cut jig's I've seen on youtube to date. Very flexible and extendable design.
I think your jig is excellent. Simple and extremely useful. Also I like the fact that you started the video showing what you were aiming to achieve so we all knew whether its worth watching (certainly was). Other channels neglect to do that. Good luck from the UK!
for your 2 angle attachments, the small angle pieces you have at 7:55 could be made much longer to run along the side of the table, this will make their repeat positioning much more accurate (rather than just allong the short face on the cross cut, can be much longer) and would save you the trouble of squaring up every time you use it.
I think I see the value in the longer contact area of those pieces but I don't think he is squaring them up every time. Isn't that the whole reason he put them on the bottoms of the angle attachments, so they would align themselves?
***EDIT*** I watched it again, I guess he is checking the angles every time, I see what you are saying.
Glen, I have to say the third iteration of this jig is by far my favorite. You've really come a long way in your content and skill. Keep up the great work brother.
Man this is an excellent jig. I’ll definitely be making one as my wife and I are doing a gut reno of our house and we’ll be reinstalling the surviving original trim and replacing damaged/missing pieces. Naturally, all the original trim is like 10” tall and my miter saw can only handle 4”. This will be a huge time and money saver thank you for designing it!
That is way better than marking saw table for cross cutting and much safer!
You are one the most creative, practical, smart and articulate craftsman I’ve ever come across. Keep up the great work - you have a genuine talent.
The "Where I'm at" picture in the video is an amazing feature! I have never seen anything like this on other RUclips channels.
Love the "where I'm at" feature in right hand corner.
It's so helpful!!
Version 1 of this jig was the very first jig I ever made. I still use it today. Looks like I'll be building an upgrade. Great job.
Thank you for including the "Where I am at" information within your video...Way to go!!!
Firstly, thank you for all the time and effort you put into this. Just starting out. You are an excellent instructor. Keep up the good work!
Amanda Miller I agree he is an excellent instructor. Knowledgeable, good pace for learning, methodical, no distractions, well organized, I could go on. Very enjoyable
Bro thank you so much. Just don’t know what you’ve created. I appreciate you looking out for the rest of us.
Loved this so much that I paid for the plans. Really well laid out, easy to follow, good design overall.
Thank you much appreciated! :D
1 question, why did you go with the c channel instead of just the L angle plain steel? you wouldn't have to do such a hard cut that way.
Hi from South Africa. I love your jig. I have made my version 2 already before watching your video and I am planning version 3. My biggest problem were with keeping it square, since it tends to go out over time and from handling, so I have made my risers adjustable with some router slots (they attach on the front and back of the board, rather than on top and is not glued down). I can now move one riser slightly left or right in order to square up the jig. I specifically like that you used steel rather than aluminium for your tracks. Mine tends to bend slightly under the weight of the saw (aluminium). I also love the fact that you used a battery powered saw as I cut of my saw cable on pulling back the saw once after a cut. Two tips I would like to offer, if you ever make V4, is to allow your guides to protrude out of the front by about 10 inches and then (remember your risers are attached from the front) you can cut right through the front riser. Then you have a very nice spot to leave your saw on the tracks out of the way after each cut. My second tip is to use a combo T-Track and Miter Channel since there are a lot of Miter Gauges that you can slot right in there.
Hi, I like your desire to do new things. I invented a "Parallel Guided Power Saw" you can see on you tube. Do you wish to partner with me to manufacture my saw? Our saw will replace almost all the saw and router system used so far. All the companies and Bosch declined to license and manufacture my saw. They are afraid of my saw because will dominate the market.
These are great solutions for not almost advanced beginners like me who don't have an airplane hanger full of tools. Thank you!
Boy, this better than the other channels, you take time to explain, what your doing, I love that, Thanks from France
Beyond impressed! Wished I'd seen this before spending $500 on a Miter Saw and Universal stand...
This is EXACTLY what I need for squaring up pine planks and making box joints for building speaker cabs! Well, I guess I should get the saw first! 😊
The garage door in the background makes me think I can do this too. Dude has the same shop I have. Nothing holding me back but not knowing how. Thanks for the great video!
I have a garage door too! Get er done!
What did you build today brother!?
@@jeromewelch7409 Most recent finished job was a major furniture amendment I've been promising my mom for years. Turned out very nice. Now it's some cabinets. (To say nothing of two dozen little things that get done gradually here and there over days or weeks.) Thanks for asking!
RobMacKendrick ; that's awesome!....
Thanks for the great twist on this jig. Love the versatility
Yo man, I have just found you after being a big fan of Steve... your channel is dope. I absolutely love this jig and will be building one!
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No messing about, just straightforward and concise. Well done!
Glen, I've been a fan/subscriber for a while now, and you never stop amazing me with your great ideas. Keep the videos coming, and I'll keep watching and learning!
I gotta say you are my favorite creative tool DIY guy. Always useful tricks. I don't want to fill my garage with a ton of tools. I like to keep it trim. Things like this are very helpful.
Damn I needed this video 5 years ago.
Me too but a year ago and now I will need it in a week
Nice job. Great that you included the real issues you encountered.
Dude! This is phenomenal. I've been watching a lot of videos about making track saws, jigs and so on, and your video is some next-level stuff. So many cool ideas, and presented really well. I really like the "Where I'm at" in the top right every so often. Kudos!
Whoa! I finally made jigs for rips and crosscuts but man, this is like 1000x better and more useful. I really like how you can set those "extracurricular" jigs at the bottom for different angled cuts as well. Too cool. This channel is giving me all sorts of ideas. Thanks for sharing!
Great work, dude! Really nice! 😊
Thank you
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DIY Creator i like the Crosscut, Can you sell it to me? i need the for small project. i'm not too handy i'm just Learning..
you just make the crosscut with the mesure for DeWalt saw i Will buy thanks.
DIY Creators hi all the vides you make are awesome .
me to I want to buy from you l like for small project I have .
Do you sell for me
Glen. I have been using that saw for 2 years now. Its my fav tool in the garage. I may just make this tool just to have another reason to use it. never thought of interior applications! I have been using it outside on Decks and fences.You're a genius.
Love the project! Could you use a set of 2 L-shaped steel angles (1/8" thick) instead of having to cut a C-channel? I don't have a reciprocating saw and that looks like an alternative.
That was my first thought. You definitely can use angle iron rather than cutting c-channel.
I love the way, when you find an issue, you find a great solution. Create-on... I think Im going to add this project to my list... Nice
Dude this is amazing! I'll definitely be interested to see how this will help me in future projects
For real man, even your jig is getting the full on design treatment. Crazy shit, im lovin it.
Bro, awesome jig and vid (short, sweet, and to the point)
i really like the way you present your projects. you also make mistakes but just correct them. i also like that you paint some of your jigs.
That is brilliant Glen, I have a feeling one of these might get built in my shop. Thanks.
This is tremendous. I'm brand new to woodworking, but I'm working on creating some cedar trays with dados running along the inside of the front and back wall to accept movable dividers. Thinking I'm going to build and use this jig as I'll be needing to make hundreds of those dados and I don't have a router table or a table saw.
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Fantastic! Thanks for sharing! I'm going to try this now! I had a thought to make it better/easier to use. Instead of predrilling mount holes for circular saw, router etc, you could have a track (perpendicular to the direction of the guides) - one of the guides can be fixed, but the other can move along the perpendicular track and be tightened into the appropriate position. Then the same jig can work for any number of devices - different brands of circular saws, jig saws, routers, etc. The perpendicular track can be along the top of the wooden block, but if you feel that the bolt to fix down the guide might interfere with the tool, then the perpendicular track can be along the side of the wooden block - the channel guide would then need a perpendicular piece as well that can help secure it to the perpendicular track along the back side of the wooden block. I hope I'm somewhat clear with what I am saying! Sorry don't have any pictures to help describe it better! :-)
Sridhar Rajagopal So have you made one like what you suggested? I think I can see what you are trying to do. One problem I see is when the circular saw (or jig saw) go past the wooden block, it will cut into the perpendicular track. If you have multiple saws, it will have multiple cuts. Do you have any better solution or you think the cut is okay.
It's perfect, just what I was looking for, greetings from Argentina!
I like the idea of laminating the base with a thick base board and thinner boards glued on top between the T tracks.
OMG a million coming Glen! Precongratulations!!
Great work Friend! Thank you for sharing the video with us.👍😎JP
for the threaded inserts I usually look for a drill bit smaller than the biggest thread (the one closest to the surface when installed) that usually gives enough hold
I've got to make one of these!
Can't wait to see it.
ToolBox Divas good work and easy tu do for sure i goin to make one good luck🇺🇾🇦🇺
I thought that your previous Crosscut jigs were great, to the point that I wanted to make one, but haven't found the time to make it. I've being doing all my cuts using a level as my straight edge. However, this one seems to be even better than your previous ones. The only change I will make is to have the router jig on its side instead of modifying the crosscut for that other task. That way I won't lose time doing changes instead of getting to work. It's the same principle of having more than one drill/driver.
Keep on bringing the content. You're one of the good ones.
Instead of cutting C-track, I bought 2 steel angle profiles. Imagine my amazement when I found (in a hard way) that they are not straight!!!
So you got two steel angle profiles and they weren't straight? I was planning on doing the same since I don't have a Reciprocating saw to cut a c channel
@@Zack16Fair yes, they were slightly curved. Can't see with eye, but obvious when you put the profiles tight to each other.
I simply did not expect that, so did not check in the shop, and for some time after, when was trying to find why the cuts are not consistent.
Thank you Glen. A man who knows his tools and explains brilliantly. Best regards from England.
Hi, Glen a very good jig. What puzzles me is, why did you use 'C' channel and cut it, instead of two pieces of angle iron?
Tony Papantoniou I was wondering the exact same thing! 🙂
great point! but hey.....we niggas do it different :D
i figured cuz thats what he had laying around.
I believe angle iron has slight curves on the inside corners. Maybe the light gauge c channel he found doesn't or they're minimal. But that's just my theory.
I was wondering the same. Out of curiosity do you guys think aluminum angle bar would work as well?
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Hi from Malta... love your videos. Simple explanations, I'm hooked dammit. lol
Hi, I like your desire to do new things. I invented a "Parallel Guided Power Saw" you can see on you tube. Do you wish to partner with me to manufacture my saw? Our saw will replace almost all the saw and router system used so far. All the companies and Bosch declined to license and manufacture my saw. They are afraid of my saw because will dominate the market.
Glen i have been a fan for years and to be honest with i have learn a lot from you. What i love more about your videos is that you explain everything in details. keep on going a good job brother.
I have tried 3 times now to make a circular saw crosscut jig. But every time I run in to problems and the cuts just don't come out square enough. When building something like this there are so many places where you have to have materials or cuts that are perfectly straight or perfectly square. First the base must be perfectly square. This is very hard to do without a table saw. Second the routed out area for the T-track must be perfectly square to the end of the base. Difficult to do. Third the risers must be made from perfectly straight and even thickness material. Fourth the risers must be perfectly square to the base and the T-track. Fifth the saw tracks must be perfectly square to the risers (not shown in the video how you did that). When trying to build tracks for my saw I have found it extremely difficult to get the tracks the perfect width so that the saw moves freely but doesn't have too much travel in to so that the saw can't move back and forth - AND - also to get the entire track assembly to be perfectly square to the risers. Very, very difficult for me. Sixth, the edges of the track can't be too high or your saw may not sit properly. I found that with both of my saws when the blade is lowered down to about 2.5 inches then the motor part of the saw lowers down too and it only leaves about 1/4 inch of clearance between the motor housing and the base of the saw. And this wasn't enough clearance to allow the saw to sit down in the track. I really want to get a working crosscut jig so I can start easily cutting square pieces but so far I am having lots of difficulty every time I try.
You remind me of me. The joints in anything I make always end up somewhere other than the line I measured so I use a lot of wood-filler to hide the gaps. (Measure twice, cut once... every time I measure the number is different!) I can predict how well my version would work if I tried to make it - another abandoned project at the bottom of the shed.
If you cannot get table saw why not get track saw? It is explicitly designed for precision cuts needed in woodworking. If money rather than space is problem maybe get one of those systems by kreg or eurekazone that enhance your circular saw enough to at least get straight cuts.
Also in jig like this nothing should be squared until you have made kerf on the jig. After the kerf you just need straight fence that will be adjusted square to the kerf. Do not try to use the supports as a fence at the same time. You will never get it to cut square without 5 cut adjustment or similar mathematical method anyway, and if you try to adjust the support based on the adjustment value from those methods it won't work because if you adjust the support you change the trajectory.
Maybe a carriage with linear bearings and smooth rods, like the one used in the bed of a reprap 3d printer, it's easier to make the rods parallel.
I found that the hardware store will cut the sheet for me. Their saw is super accurate and very clean. I always do that if I need an accurate edge. However since most of my work is on boats there isn't a straight edge on anything, and if I find one I know it's a mistake, unless Starck has been at it first.
Very clear video, well presented and a good project. Thank you from UK.
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This will help me a lot as I don't have a work bench
I never SAW this coming.
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@@briandavern8741 DOH!
Love the "Where I'm at" indicator!!
Looking to build me one of these jigs for my circular saw.
Awesome tool. Instead of moving the rail for the router it looks like you have room to install and remove a third rail as needed. Less wear and tear on the saw rails so they stay true longer. Trying that on my build. Great Vid!
CZRider True, second rail is nice idea.
CZRider True, second rail is nice idea.
This one is epic solution and save a lot of money than spending on the jig table from home depot/lowes!
Loved the idea and buying the material for your hard work and amazing ideas!!
awesome. I built one but on the run I put a 1/8 inch delrin strip just to make the bottom plate of the saw glide smoother, and what a difference it made
That was absurdly convenient that the reciprocating foot just slid right in the c-channel. I love it when shit like that works out.
We are a house of nerdy DIY LARP'ers, but our garage is not big enough to fit a table saw. We do have a fold up table that could be used with something like this to create a kind of mock-table-saw deal, and the amount of things we could make (we're looking into renovating a few rooms in the house over time) would skyrocket!
Great build! Easy to throw in the back and use in the field WITHOUT spending the bank to create repeating cuts! Favorite part... The very end of your vid I caught the "dog car wash" looking thing! I am definitely building that this Spring! Keep doin what you do!
Thank you for sharing! The sky is the limit. Greetings from Slovenia
THis could be adapted to any size shop, even my micro shop, where your hang it up feature rocks. Keep creating.
I love you man. I was stuck in my own head for shop bench ideas until I saw your video on small space work benches without major tools. Thank you, you totally inspired me or I should say re-inspired me and my mission. Plus my wallet thanks you too. Keep em coming, as soon as I can I will support your Patreon page. COVID-19 wiped me out, well that and the Big C. You’re definitely my favorite contractor and you have a great personality on the tube. I hope this gig is really paying off for you because you deserve it. T
You got skills! Enjoyed the video and your attention to detail. Your wood shop teacher would be proud.
Glen you were on the mark with every step great job thank you so much I will be making this one for my shop.
It is a really good idea, you should make this for commercial sale
this is the best woodworking instructional channel
I'm a carpenter with tools for everything so I don't need one but its a damn good idea. I pretty sure the day will come when I am in a tight spot and a simple temporary version of this will get me out of it.
I really like how you did the miter attachments
I love that where I am model. Keep doing that, it helps to explain what you are doing.
Simple, elegant, multifunctional. Nice!
great jig I might throw one together when I get a chance! Thanks!
Wow just wow. I start watching your videos and you are the MAN. Thank you
Oh forgot to say plus the idea of flattening boards with this is awesome.
I wish I could just buy all the cool tool accessories you make
You are a very smart fella! Thanks for sharing!
I have shared this channel with so many friends. Content is so legit!
PERFECT presentation & demonstration. Wish your diamond hands greater success. Thanks for sharing.
Creativity is amazing
What a nifty idea! Thanks
I have to build some wardrobes soon, cross cutting a load of 600mm wide boards. My little table saw won't go that wide. Ok, the DeWalt track saw is good but a quick and simple jig like this is very handy. Especially as you can put the router on there too.
Excellent Glen. Nice Job and design.
Hey Glen i just built a similar unit. I actually used the speed square as the angle cutting guide. In your t track make little blocks that hold it down. Pivot to the desired angle, then clamp in place
I recently cut 2 of my fingers off using my bench saw, after 30yrs of use, my first accident but this idea is so safe. Great video
Im just kidding into this stuff myself and every video I come across like yours really helps alot. Keep that up
Great job on this... You have an excellent educational style!
Love your channel- always search you for DYI help!
Glenn, you are a genius!! thks for share this idea, its simple, and cheap!!!
I really like your precision using a black spray paint whilst wearing a white t shirt., Now that's confidence. 😍👍😊
Love all your demonstrations and tools
excellent build, but the video production quality was outstanding.
You are a bright and solid, hard working guy. Regards from Port Hope, Ontario. You have made a subscriber out of me. Easy to watch, great video and sound, but more importantly your projects are very good. Thank you for the information.
that jig is awesome!
Good morning sir..i'm from phillipines i love woodworking as a hobbie since i was a kid i grow watching my father making furnature using old basic tools . In my work i make simple and basic furnature .I plan to make it as a profession but i don't have a personal tools. .i watch your channel to learn more and hoping that you have give away of a begginers tools for begginers like me..sorry for my poor english ..