FWIW. Peg board makes an excellent pattern jig for evenly spaced
holes/lines. It can be used at an angle to divide to even spaces of infinite
sizes.
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Chipper Wood
useours, yours won't work
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> I do recall some time ago a home made jig for drilling the holes for
> cabinet shelf supports. All comments welcome.
> Mikey
I purchased the 1/4" jig from rockler and bit set 22658 from rockler and it
works great.
The bit has a bushing that allows goes into the holes and doesn't cut the
plastic jig. There is also a depth stop on the bit to drill the holes to the
proper depth.
http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_details.cfm?&offerings_id=919
Roland
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> I do recall some time ago a home made jig for drilling the holes for
> cabinet shelf supports. All comments welcome.
> Mikey
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> I do recall some time ago a home made jig for drilling the holes for
> cabinet shelf supports. All comments welcome.
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Well, Norm has a pretty neat and simple jig for this task.
You just need a length of MDF. Mark up hole postions and then drill out the
jig with oversized holes that will take a Router guide bush. To put the
holes in the workpiece just clamp on the jig and use a plunge router with
guide bush and fitted with the appropriate bit set to depth and you can get
a perfect repeatable result. All with no wear and tear on the jig.
"igor" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >
>
> Do you recall if Norm had a jig to get the holes aligned & spaced right in
> the mdf?
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If he did I'm sure his elves knocked it up for him. (pegboard might help)
;-)
Lee Gordon wrote:
> A Vix bit is even better but for some reason, while an ordinary vix bit
> costs $5 or $6, one that is precisely the right size for shelf pins costs 3
> or 4 times as much. Hmm.
>
> Lee
You're not the only one who has noticed that.
--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
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"J. Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote in message > The have some
additional sizes that they sell for the Veritas 32 system--no
> reason they won't work standalone though.
Not sure the Veritas 32 system parts would be able to do the same thing. The
bushings alone are twice the price and the part numbers are completely
different. Are they properly threaded enough to screw into a piece of wood?
Doesn't matter I guess, to each his own.
I second the pegboard method. Just make sure your mark it (i.e what is the top/bottom, centerline). I have used one for
a couple of years now on all sorts of cabinets. Make sure you clamp it to the piece to prevent the template from
moving.Also make sure it is snug against the piece when you drill the hole, so you do not get any tear-out along the
edge of the hole.
JAW
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> I do recall some time ago a home made jig for drilling the holes for
> cabinet shelf supports. All comments welcome.
> Mikey
Check out the jig that rockler has. I like mine very much.
"NoOne N Particular" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I sixth the pegboard method. I have used it several times and the only
> comment I could add to the other comments would be to use a good sharp
> brad-point drill bit to further help reduce tearout.
>
> Wayne
>
>
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> > I do recall some time ago a home made jig for drilling the holes for
> > cabinet shelf supports. All comments welcome.
> > Mikey
>
>
Upscale wrote:
>
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> I do recall some time ago a home made jig for drilling the holes for
>> cabinet shelf supports. All comments welcome.
>
> I bought some of these for a home made drilling jig from Lee Valley Tools.
> They work as advertised, are reusable, easy to set up and cheap enough so
> as not to break the bank.
>
>
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?page=32317&category=1,180,42311,42321&abspage=1&ccurrency=1&SID=
The have some additional sizes that they sell for the Veritas 32 system--no
reason they won't work standalone though.
<http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?page=44285&category=1,180,42311&ccurrency=1&SID=>.
There's one size that isn't hardened so you can drill it to whatever
diameter you need.
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--John
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(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
In article <[email protected]>,
Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>Upscale is right!
>At $4.60/hole it seems pretty dear to me. Let's see...6' bookcase, maybe
>50 holes in a run, only $230, plus shipping, of course! And you still have
>to build the jig.
The bushings mentioned (@ $2.30 each in quantity) are used in the jig.
Generally one makes the jig much smaller than the full bookcase and
moves it incrementally.
The smallest useful jig would have one bushed hole and one unbushed
hole - and have to be moved once for each hole to be drilled - but that
would only require one bushing ($2.75 in qty 1).
>Wilson
>"Upscale" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> > I do recall some time ago a home made jig for drilling the holes for
>> > cabinet shelf supports. All comments welcome.
>>
>> I bought some of these for a home made drilling jig from Lee Valley Tools.
>> They work as advertised, are reusable, easy to set up and cheap enough so as
>> not to break the bank.
>>
>http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?page=32317&category=1,180,42311,42321&abspage=1&ccurrency=1&SID=
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--henry schaffer
hes _AT_ ncsu _DOT_ edu
Wilson wrote:
> Upscale is right!
> At $4.60/hole it seems pretty dear to me. Let's see...6' bookcase, maybe
> 50 holes in a run, only $230, plus shipping, of course! And you still
> have to build the jig.
You only need one of them of each size. You make the holes in the jig big
enough to take the bushing, clamp down the jig, put the bushing in the
first hole, drill, move it to the second hole, drill, move it to the third
hole, drill, etc. If you get a couple of indexing pins then you can move
your jig and maintain alignment without too much difficulty, so you don't
need one the full length of the piece.
At the bottom of the Veritas 32 page, where you would click to order, next
to "Basic System" there's a link "instr". That's the instruction manual
for that system--read it and I think you'll have a better idea how to use
the bushings. You may pick up some other ideas for making your own.
The Veritas 32 page is
<http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?page=44285&category=1,180,42311&ccurrency=1&SID=>.
I can't provide a direct link to the instructions as they're accessed via a
javascript application on that page for some reason known only to Lee
Valley.
> Wilson
> "Upscale" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>
>> <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> > I do recall some time ago a home made jig for drilling the holes for
>> > cabinet shelf supports. All comments welcome.
>>
>> I bought some of these for a home made drilling jig from Lee Valley
>> Tools. They work as advertised, are reusable, easy to set up and cheap
>> enough so
> as
>> not to break the bank.
>>
>>
>
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?page=32317&category=1,180,42311,42321&abspage=1&ccurrency=1&SID=
>>
>>
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--John
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(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I do recall some time ago a home made jig for drilling the holes for
> cabinet shelf supports. All comments welcome.
I bought some of these for a home made drilling jig from Lee Valley Tools.
They work as advertised, are reusable, easy to set up and cheap enough so as
not to break the bank.
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?page=32317&category=1,180,42311,42321&abspage=1&ccurrency=1&SID=
Upscale is right!
At $4.60/hole it seems pretty dear to me. Let's see...6' bookcase, maybe
50 holes in a run, only $230, plus shipping, of course! And you still have
to build the jig.
Wilson
"Upscale" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I do recall some time ago a home made jig for drilling the holes for
> > cabinet shelf supports. All comments welcome.
>
> I bought some of these for a home made drilling jig from Lee Valley Tools.
> They work as advertised, are reusable, easy to set up and cheap enough so
as
> not to break the bank.
>
>
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?page=32317&category=1,180,42311,42321&abspage=1&ccurrency=1&SID=
>
>
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:32:21 +0100, "gandalf"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
><[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> I do recall some time ago a home made jig for drilling the holes for
>> cabinet shelf supports. All comments welcome.
>------------------
>Well, Norm has a pretty neat and simple jig for this task.
>
>You just need a length of MDF. Mark up hole postions and then drill out the
>jig with oversized holes that will take a Router guide bush. To put the
>holes in the workpiece just clamp on the jig and use a plunge router with
>guide bush and fitted with the appropriate bit set to depth and you can get
>a perfect repeatable result. All with no wear and tear on the jig.
>
Do you recall if Norm had a jig to get the holes aligned & spaced right in
the mdf?
(SNIP)
> holes in the workpiece just clamp on the jig and use a plunge router with
> guide bush and fitted with the appropriate bit set to depth and you can
get
> a perfect repeatable result. All with no wear and tear on the jig.
AND it is very fast. It takes less than a second to plunge a 1/4" spiral
router bit 1/2" into wood. It takes longer to move the router from hole to
hole than to actually cut each hole.
Earl Creel
<<I sixth the pegboard method. I have used it several times and the only
comment I could add to the other comments would be to use a good sharp
brad-point drill bit to further help reduce tearout.>>
A Vix bit is even better but for some reason, while an ordinary vix bit
costs $5 or $6, one that is precisely the right size for shelf pins costs 3
or 4 times as much. Hmm.
Lee
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I just finished some frameless cabinets for my garage and used the pegboard
method - worked great. I attached a scrap board to one side (should have
done two sides) to make alignment faster. I also used another scrap (you
could use a large dowel) with a hole down the center to keep the hand drill
from going too deep. It was very simple, made entirely from scraps, and
worked great.
<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I do recall some time ago a home made jig for drilling the holes for
> cabinet shelf supports. All comments welcome.
> Mikey
I sixth the pegboard method. I have used it several times and the only
comment I could add to the other comments would be to use a good sharp
brad-point drill bit to further help reduce tearout.
Wayne
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> I do recall some time ago a home made jig for drilling the holes for
> cabinet shelf supports. All comments welcome.
> Mikey