Excellent jig Jay, simple and easy... the way I like it. I would suggest drawing a center line BEFORE you drill the router bit hole and extend it up perpendicular to the guides up to the base edges. This would make a precise reference for positioning the jig, just making a center line in the piece you are making the mortise and then align both lines.....
Thanks for the simple solution here Jay. You saved me $250+ bucks with this. I was about to buy a brand-new plunge router with guide, but repurposed an old Skil router I had collecting dust using these plans. I made a slight modification and added 1/2 acrylic so that I could see better. It's not as strong as plywood but it's working well enough. Thanks again! Still love the router table with simple lift.
Great, that's exactly the video I was hoping to find when I searched for an edge-guide router jig! I don't even need to look elsewhere as this is all I need to successfully build this jig 😀 Thank you for taking the time to film, edit and post this video, and know that a 42-year-old, female viewer all the way across the pond in England will be using this when routing the rails for her two new garage doors!
Thank you Jay! Just made this and it makes breadboard mortises so much easier and safer than the edge guide I was using. To center it on your workpiece I’m finding it stupid simple if I know my mortise is 3/8” off the edge to just set the router down, use a 3/8” gauge block between the upspiral bit and fence then tighten that side down. Then just have to flip it over and butt up the other fence to the workpiece. Again awesome jig love your channel!
Great jig Jay. I like this and others you have made because the result is a jig with great accuracy and ease of use, yet nothing too critical in the construction. Smart design.
Simple and to the point. No fluff just production.Thank you for helping an older person who is just getting started in woodworking get started. I have a lot of your ideas in a folder and have started making them as I have time.
I was watching this last night and immediately made it this morning (had to wait until 9 am) perfect and repeatable centered mortises. This also was a simple construction.
I've seen other videos for bills on this style of jig before. I gotta say you did a great job with it. super clear, informative and easy to understand instructions. I like the way you always seem to break it down with a lot of / explanations just clear cut to the point and very entertaining good job J
I used your video to make your mortise guide. It worked great I've almost finished building a Stickley mission style loveseat..still need to glue, dowel and sand. Thank you!
Oh yeah I really want to thank you for your time spent helping others learn Sketch Up. It is really hard for some one my age with low puter skills to learn on our own.
As a recent new subscriber, this video prompted me to make one of these jigs(after years of saying that I didn't need one!). It's knocked hours off my production time! Great video, great channel.
One suggestion, after the initial depth of the plunge cut is complete, flip the whole thing around without loosening the wing nuts, and repeat the plunge cut to make sure the finished mortise is centered.
hi Mr Jay I made this jig and use it in my first project (single bed for my child) it is very useful and easy to use many thanks for you and your videos
One other point you may have made is to set stop blocks to ensure the desired length of your mortise. A great idea which I know I will incorporate into my shop.
Just built mine and tested it on an unsurfaced 2x4. It works well but you have to take caution when using two fences on non-uniformly thick pieces. The piece will wedge against the fence and those wing nuts will come loose if you try to force it as I did. I also made the mistake of routing right to left so the router easily ran off the side of the piece. No damage was done.
You could put a mark on each side of the jig in line with the center of the bit, this could be used to aid in lining up to the center of the bit, possibly more accurate than eyeballing the bit in the work.
Love the build Jay. BTW.................the expertise with which you put together your videos is getting better and better all the time. The time you spend in post production shows. Thanks for posting.
Another option for the base instead of plywood is hardboard. That's what I used on mine, and it works great. And tends to be rather "slick" so it slides really easily. A little paste wax on the oak runners helps also.
Haven't seen this type of video from you in awhile...love when you make jigs and devices! I have been meaning to make one of these...Very useful and as usual you have motivated me to get making!
I'm curious have you ever made a video talking about the equipment you use to make your videos? Your lighting is always on point and your editing always adds to the videos too. I would also love to know more about how you shoot your videos and your editing. When it comes to editing of videos I always look forward to your videos and Frank Howarth's you two both do great work.
Hello Jay, thought you would have squared it up before tightening down. It needs some way of setting it up to track parallel to your piece of wood. The 4 bolt setup can make it travel on an angle.
Nice video Jay, great production value and nice sound effects. I like the simple design of this i made one of these years ago out of Lexan and hardwood and they are the best for doing exactly what you were doing or if you are making fluted pilasters.
pretty coool i'll make one of these for sure. But i dont know why but i'd rotate my base 90 degrees so i could push/pull the router instead of going sideways. i'm more stable and have more force that way. gj nice video !
Neat alternate use for this jig would be as a dado spacer if you're cutting a bunch of dados in a piece of plywood for shelves. Just make the bottom edge guide the width of the dado and set it to the spacing.
I need to create a slot in a two metre plank, with only about 15cm uncut at either end. I was trying to figure out how a first time router user as me was going to achieve that. This jig should do the job I hope.
thats a nice router jay,& i like thats it fits any router. i just got a Craftsman plunge the other day just for mortises i have a guide but not dble sided.thanks for sharing that
Hey Jay, It looks like your shop is in a new space. I thought I saw a garage door in the background. I am about to convert my garage into a shop (or half of it anyway) and I would be interested (as I am sure a lot of other people are) as to how yours is set up. Can you give us a 360 degree tour of the place so we can see where you have everything located and how much room you have between tools and how they are organized?
Excellent jig Jay, simple and easy... the way I like it. I would suggest drawing a center line BEFORE you drill the router bit hole and extend it up perpendicular to the guides up to the base edges. This would make a precise reference for positioning the jig, just making a center line in the piece you are making the mortise and then align both lines.....
After spending considerable time building a gate for family ...cutting 8 mortises...I can truly appreciate this jig...Can't wait to make it...
Thanks for the simple solution here Jay. You saved me $250+ bucks with this. I was about to buy a brand-new plunge router with guide, but repurposed an old Skil router I had collecting dust using these plans. I made a slight modification and added 1/2 acrylic so that I could see better. It's not as strong as plywood but it's working well enough. Thanks again! Still love the router table with simple lift.
Great, that's exactly the video I was hoping to find when I searched for an edge-guide router jig! I don't even need to look elsewhere as this is all I need to successfully build this jig 😀 Thank you for taking the time to film, edit and post this video, and know that a 42-year-old, female viewer all the way across the pond in England will be using this when routing the rails for her two new garage doors!
Another winner Jay. You could add a stop block on each side if needed as well.
This is by far the best, cleanest version of making mortises that I've seen.
Thank you Jay! Just made this and it makes breadboard mortises so much easier and safer than the edge guide I was using. To center it on your workpiece I’m finding it stupid simple if I know my mortise is 3/8” off the edge to just set the router down, use a 3/8” gauge block between the upspiral bit and fence then tighten that side down. Then just have to flip it over and butt up the other fence to the workpiece. Again awesome jig love your channel!
That's the kind of video I like, no bullshit, just functionality
Great jig Jay. I like this and others you have made because the result is a jig with great accuracy and ease of use, yet nothing too critical in the construction. Smart design.
I spent the last 4 hours looking at DIY mortising jigs and so far you have made a simple design that i want to build. Thank you.
Simple and to the point. No fluff just production.Thank you for helping an older person who is just getting started in woodworking get started. I have a lot of your ideas in a folder and have started making them as I have time.
Jay, I bookmarked this over a year ago as the best method I could find knowing I’d need it eventually. Needed it!! Works PERFECTLY! Thanks.
I was watching this last night and immediately made it this morning (had to wait until 9 am) perfect and repeatable centered mortises. This also was a simple construction.
Nicely done. Many people overlook this method of attaching any kind of jig to their own specific router. Useful for various routing applications.
I've seen other videos for bills on this style of jig before. I gotta say you did a great job with it. super clear, informative and easy to understand instructions. I like the way you always seem to break it down with a lot of / explanations just clear cut to the point and very entertaining good job J
I used your video to make your mortise guide. It worked great
I've almost finished building a Stickley mission style loveseat..still need to glue, dowel and sand. Thank you!
Another fine, useful, product. Necessity is the mother of invention.
I like the simplicity and utility of this jig, and the video presentation is great.
Oh yeah I really want to thank you for your time spent helping others learn Sketch Up. It is really hard for some one my age with low puter skills to learn on our own.
Thank you! I could not find an edge guide for my Ryobi plunge router. This jig solves my problem; clear and simple.
Muchas Gracias
Simple and elegant solution to not double spending money on another guide. nice
As a recent new subscriber, this video prompted me to make one of these jigs(after years of saying that I didn't need one!). It's knocked hours off my production time! Great video, great channel.
One suggestion, after the initial depth of the plunge cut is complete, flip the whole thing around without loosening the wing nuts, and repeat the plunge cut to make sure the finished mortise is centered.
You could put some clamps on each end of the work piece to act as stop blocks to have a more uniform cut.
These are great router jigs and really useful for a lot of different applications. Great jig Jay
Jay, this is a very simple and cost effective answer to routing recesses and straight lines. Thanks.
hi Mr Jay I made this jig and use it in my first project (single bed for my child)
it is very useful and easy to use
many thanks for you and your videos
Cut a short longitudinal slot in h thread of the bolt so that, when you screw it into the undersized hole, it cuts a thread like a very crude tap.
As always, another good vid Jay. What I like is how you always explain things well for us less experienced.
The Awesome thing about Jay's videos is the editing... you go JAY!
Cool video - the final sound effects with the photos were awesome.
I like that the dust collection is still in use thumbs up Jay
Man, I know this video is almost 7 years old, but you just saved my life - hahahaha!!!
I find it helpful to put a center mark on the edge of the jig for quick centering on the workpiece. Great video. Thanks.
Great idea. Simple and universal. You could use it to cut dados to, just remove one rail.
complimenti dalla Sicilia... come sempre i tuoi progetti sono fatti molto bene; sono semplici e molto esplicativi.
grazie Mille
One other point you may have made is to set stop blocks to ensure the desired length of your mortise. A great idea which I know I will incorporate into my shop.
Great video. Simple but functional. Thank you. Just what I need.
This is the most versatile diy jig ive seen. Nice job with the vid.
Really useful jig! Awesome video production as always! Thanks for sharing!
+Scrap wood City Thank you for watching.
Excellent and good looking jig! Love the music part when you're cutting the bolts!
Necessity is the mother of invention! well done man!
Thanks Jay. Easy to make but a very useful jig
Just built mine and tested it on an unsurfaced 2x4. It works well but you have to take caution when using two fences on non-uniformly thick pieces. The piece will wedge against the fence and those wing nuts will come loose if you try to force it as I did.
I also made the mistake of routing right to left so the router easily ran off the side of the piece. No damage was done.
Excellent and just what I need to setup for my next project, simply explained, congrats too on keeping a very clean shop.
Though it might be overkill, it looks like a nice way to do doweling with a proper alignment and vertical hole.
You could put a mark on each side of the jig in line with the center of the bit, this could be used to aid in lining up to the center of the bit, possibly more accurate than eyeballing the bit in the work.
Good video jay! Loved the stinger transition effects. Seamed like your fixture worked well and left a clean mortise
Love the build Jay. BTW.................the expertise with which you put together your videos is getting better and better all the time. The time you spend in post production shows. Thanks for posting.
Another option for the base instead of plywood is hardboard. That's what I used on mine, and it works great. And tends to be rather "slick" so it slides really easily. A little paste wax on the oak runners helps also.
AWESOME! Now you need a comparable jig to set the mortise length to achieve the ultimate repeatability!
So simple, yet so handy. Nice jig!
great stuff! very simple and easy to build in any shop. you could easily use any clamp as stop block to set the length on the mortise.
Haven't seen this type of video from you in awhile...love when you make jigs and devices! I have been meaning to make one of these...Very useful and as usual you have motivated me to get making!
Love this type of jig. I'm going to build one using plexiglass for the base. Thx Jay!
Best all round skills on UA-cam.
Great solution, really like that you can use it universally on any router =) Thanks for sharing =)
They make a very useful accessory in the shop... I made a similar yrs back
Very handy jig! Simple & effective! Thanks!
That looks like a nice router. The plunge guides seem long enough to make it run true.
Thanks for the great video Jay. Not only is the content great, I really enjoy the sound bites you insert as well...lol!
Great design, Jay! I need to build one of these for my DeWalt.
Excellent accesory for little projects in house
Awsome tip and that vac system is amazing :) That's one clean shop :)
+Ron Hart Yeah the dust collection on this router is great.
Perfect. Just what I've been looking for.
Excellent jig, Jay.
Exactly what I need for a pair of bookcases I'm planning to build soon. Thanks!
Just made one this afternoon, works amazingly.
Great video. Clear and to the point. plenty of detail
I'm curious have you ever made a video talking about the equipment you use to make your videos? Your lighting is always on point and your editing always adds to the videos too. I would also love to know more about how you shoot your videos and your editing. When it comes to editing of videos I always look forward to your videos and Frank Howarth's you two both do great work.
Hello Jay, thought you would have squared it up before tightening down.
It needs some way of setting it up to track parallel to your piece of wood.
The 4 bolt setup can make it travel on an angle.
It doesn't matter if it travels on an angle.
Jay Bates, I see now, as long as the two clamps are tight to the stock the router will stay centred. Thanks for reply 👍🏼
This pure awesomeness, lots of love from Kenya.
Nice video Jay, great production value and nice sound effects. I like the simple design of this i made one of these years ago out of Lexan and hardwood and they are the best for doing exactly what you were doing or if you are making fluted pilasters.
Thank you , great router jig simple to make and use perfect for mortice holes .
Simple and effective, nice work Jay.
pretty coool i'll make one of these for sure. But i dont know why but i'd rotate my base 90 degrees so i could push/pull the router instead of going sideways. i'm more stable and have more force that way. gj nice video !
+Guillaume Breton You won't be able to see your start/stop edge as easily.
The best of best! Always my 1st pick. Bravo👍👏💖Thanks for your sharing!
I like that. I really like your editing Jay. You come up with some fun special effects.
it would be a great Jig for fitting door hinges and locks also.
Turned out great Jay, can't wait to see the video where you use it
Awesome little jig Jay, will have to build one too.
Very helpful Jay, thanks for sharing that tip. That music at the end....I'm still looking over my shoulder. lol God Bless
Neat alternate use for this jig would be as a dado spacer if you're cutting a bunch of dados in a piece of plywood for shelves. Just make the bottom edge guide the width of the dado and set it to the spacing.
Great jig and very easy to make. Thank you.
Masterful Speed Racer reference there.
Gonna try making me one!!! Thanks Jay and I like how neat and organized your shop is!!
I need to create a slot in a two metre plank, with only about 15cm uncut at either end. I was trying to figure out how a first time router user as me was going to achieve that. This jig should do the job I hope.
Thanks Jay; good video, easy(for me) to follow along and looks like a practical jig to have in the shop...cheers...rr
hi Jay, I built this today and it rocked!
Thanks!
thats a nice router jay,& i like thats it fits any router. i just got a Craftsman plunge the other day just for mortises i have a guide but not dble sided.thanks for sharing that
Thank you so much for the tips. I’ve been trying to figure out how to build a jig for grooves to stile and rails using a router.
Hey Jay, It looks like your shop is in a new space. I thought I saw a garage door in the background. I am about to convert my garage into a shop (or half of it anyway) and I would be interested (as I am sure a lot of other people are) as to how yours is set up. Can you give us a 360 degree tour of the place so we can see where you have everything located and how much room you have between tools and how they are organized?
built it in 15 minutes works awesome
Great video Jay. I'm definitely going to build this as soon as I get a plunge router. Still using the ol' fixed base.
Phil
Very cool jig. Great idea. Best regards, Richard
Awesome thx Jay. Making one straight away. Great addition to the shop
And I think if you take only the rods from the edge guide or any other rods that fit you can always adapt to cut circles I think
Great idea! I'm gonna make one of those, thanx for instructive vid clip.
Man, that guy is fast with a hack saw!!!
+Lane Bros WoodShop Yeah, he said something about being a racer or something?
+Jay Bates why not just use an angle grinder. Or even a dremel wit a metal disc. I have one and it is pretty fast for this type of jobs.
very nice I will make one looking forward to your next project