Thank you thank you thank you for explaining what you are going to do, then showing what you are making and how it works and then showing how to make it. Excellent format.
Thank you so much Aaron! It is definitely getting more and more fun making these videos. Can’t wait until I get all of my materials for some of the bigger projects this spring!
I stumbled upon your channel because I was searching on how to make a picture frame jig. I saw a lot of examples, but yours, in my view is far better than the others. I'm heading to the table saw to make one. I'm also enjoying your other posts. Thank you, Tim
Well done sir! Made my own with a couple slight variations. I added two 3/4 inch dowels to the sides as handles to keep my hands out of the way, and a spare scrap block of hardwood to act as a blade guard. Thank you for this video!
I really like this jig. I saw your comment over at 731 Woodworks video and came over here to check out your channel. I am now subscribed. You have some great content and I look forward to future videos.
Late to the party, but this is hands-down the best spline jig video I've seen. I've been setting up my shop and a lot of the spline jig builds don't have T-Track and/or stop blocks, but I knew I wanted those in my jig. So glad I found this. Criminally under-subscribed in my opinion. Thanks Suman!
Nice video! I'll be making a new spline cradle for boxes soon, as the old one was never that great. I'll probably use a T-Track now, thank you for the idea! Now here's an idea for you: Splines glued with PVA glue may not add all the strength you expect, even though it's the standard approach. If you break the joint apart, the spline usually just slips out. Using hot hide glue for the splines (not the miter) results in a much stronger joint, in my experience. Cheers!
One suggestion, once you make the saw cut into the jig, with a sharpie, make a line from the cut up to and including the edge for a visual reference to where the cut will be made.
Top job and thorough. I love the adjustability of it. Some I have seen have many saw cuts in the bottom as you move the project for each spline. Yours, you move the stop block so that's a better arrangement. This looks very professional.
I love these little jigs... so many for me to create... I want to make my workbench before I make my studio desk... but the jigs will be able to help me get to the solutions I want for easy disassembling - I'n thinking dowels, dado grooves and Japanese joints... should be exciting and some of the ideas you share, will definitely help me get closer to cutting some wood :) Thanks
Awesome! The jig comes in handy more often than I’d like to admit. Not having had a good one, I’d come up with workarounds. Now it’s just easy to add splines without the Haarlem.
Thanks! Glad you liked the jig. I’ve been taking a little break to spend time with newest addition to the family, however, will have many jig videos in the near future. Cheers!
Great job! If you’re new with your channel, it sure doesn’t show! Clear, concise and detailed instruction…. just subscribed and planning on building this fixture…. Appreciate your time and expertise! Looking forward to more…
Hello. You must put an adjustable safety stop behind your carriage so that your saw blade does not go too close to you!!! You are doing a good job. From France
This is amazing and thorough! I just made my first tapering/jointing jig - I think I have about 6 inches of T-track left from that that I will use to make a half width version of this jig for my little jobsite saw. Thank you for your content and thorough explanation!
Thank you so much! It’s great to hear you found this jig and video useful. I still frequently use mine and imagine you’ll get lots of use out of it as well. Cheers!
This is the first time I see your videos and really enjoyed the way you put things together. Easy to understand! Your video will help me build one of these jigs and for that you got my subscription!
Great video Suman. If you rotated your miter joints 180 so that the miter cut sits directly on the runner board you will save about 1 inch of cut depth. All other elements of the design stay the same except your t-track will be on the other side of the same board.
Rudimentary is accurate. I’ll be doing something a lot more proper in the near future. I can’t imagine miter splines is actually weaker than just miters alone.
I see you screwed the T track into the jig. I'm about to use some T track in a project and the two methods I hear online are the screw in method and the 5 min epoxy method. Screws allow you to remove and reuse the track in other projects, but epoxy gets the screw heads out of the track. I'm not sure they're annoying enough for the cost/permanence of epoxy. Have you noticed the T bolts catching on those screw heads?
I haven't had any issues with the bolts (say, 1/4-20) or the t-track specific fasteners hitting the screws. I would recommend going with the screws over epoxy. The only major downside to the screws in a situation like this or on a crosscut sled is 3/4" thick ply. T track takes up about 1/2" of it and you only have little meat for the screws to hold on to. Still, plenty of strength for most woodworking tasks. Most screws may stick out a little. You can grind them flush. Or be really picky with the screws and get something super short. I would grind them flush.
Thanks Mark- I don’t have an exact plan for it, however, a viewer made plans and sent to me. I’m not sure if it’s exactly to this build but it is pretty close. Message me at woodcraftbysuman@gmail.com and I’ll send it to ya.
If you can afford all that Purple Heart wood you made your workbench with, it doesn’t seem like plywood prices would affect you that much. That Purple Heart must have cost a fortune dude.
I agree. I am still a new channel and haven’t had the capacity to make quality plans as of yet. It is my goal to get my workflow efficient enough to create quality plans along with build videos like this. Thank you for the feedback
I was just watching the miter joint jig you made & was wondering if you had any plans for it?
The quality of this video is off the charts. Visually it’s perfect and the instruction is spot on. 10/10
Thanks John. Can’t wait to see your future videos!
Crazy good content for 2.5 months in man. Good work
That’s high praise! Thank you so much!
Thank you thank you thank you for explaining what you are going to do, then showing what you are making and how it works and then showing how to make it. Excellent format.
Great job on the Extro!
Thanks Scott! I really need to stop being lazy and make more use of the slider in videos.
You have an incredibly calm and thorough way of walking through a project. Absolutely love it.
It's all chaos up in the head, friend. Alas, thank you!
Just might be the best miter spline jig I've seen. Good video and instructions how to build one.
Kia Ora & Good Morning from North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand ...great video bro.
Excellent explanations, clear, understandable, diction, and useful design ideas. What more can we ask for! Nicely done. Thank you.
Your work is great 👍
Thanks for taking your time to do this video! I just made a replica of it. I appreciate it!
Just got done making mine using this video. Thank you for such a great, in depth video! Please keep them coming and keep up the great work!
Spline jig:
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Thanks again Suman.
Thank you!
Please keep doing what you do.
I ve seen other jigs for this purpose but this one looks more better and makes more sense. Good job.
Excellent as usual
Amazing viewer of the channel, as usual :)
Thank YOU for all of your hard work producing excellent content! That’s a great jig and an equally great explanation. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much Aaron! It is definitely getting more and more fun making these videos. Can’t wait until I get all of my materials for some of the bigger projects this spring!
I stumbled upon your channel because I was searching on how to make a picture frame jig. I saw a lot of examples, but yours, in my view is far better than the others. I'm heading to the table saw to make one. I'm also enjoying your other posts. Thank you, Tim
Well done sir! Made my own with a couple slight variations. I added two 3/4 inch dowels to the sides as handles to keep my hands out of the way, and a spare scrap block of hardwood to act as a blade guard. Thank you for this video!
Excellent video and design....Thanks !
I really like this jig. I saw your comment over at 731 Woodworks video and came over here to check out your channel. I am now subscribed. You have some great content and I look forward to future videos.
I am glad you like the content enough to subscribe. Great to have you here!
Just happened on your channel. Thanks so much for your video I'm making a shelf with box joints for my son. this video is perfect.
Thanks Phil! Please let me know how the jig build goes for you.
Thanks, enjoyed your demo, nice job.
Suman, excellent video and explanation of the miter spline jig. Thanks!
Thanks Derek! Thank you for watching
Nice work, thanks.
No, thank YOU for watching! Appreciate it.
Compliment for project!!👍👍
Absolutely Good work & Excellent project .
Late to the party, but this is hands-down the best spline jig video I've seen. I've been setting up my shop and a lot of the spline jig builds don't have T-Track and/or stop blocks, but I knew I wanted those in my jig. So glad I found this. Criminally under-subscribed in my opinion. Thanks Suman!
Wow this is so awesome thank you
Thanks! Let me know if you ever make one.
You got a new subscriber sir.
Welcome aboard! What an awesome subscriber it is!
Nice video! I'll be making a new spline cradle for boxes soon, as the old one was never that great. I'll probably use a T-Track now, thank you for the idea!
Now here's an idea for you: Splines glued with PVA glue may not add all the strength you expect, even though it's the standard approach. If you break the joint apart, the spline usually just slips out. Using hot hide glue for the splines (not the miter) results in a much stronger joint, in my experience. Cheers!
Great job - looking forward for other projects to come. Thank you.
One suggestion, once you make the saw cut into the jig, with a sharpie, make a line from the cut up to and including the edge for a visual reference to where the cut will be made.
Great Video!
Great stuff
Thanks for watching!
Top job and thorough. I love the adjustability of it. Some I have seen have many saw cuts in the bottom as you move the project for each spline. Yours, you move the stop block so that's a better arrangement. This looks very professional.
Love your work, Cheers
Glad you enjoy it! Cheers!
I love these little jigs... so many for me to create... I want to make my workbench before I make my studio desk... but the jigs will be able to help me get to the solutions I want for easy disassembling - I'n thinking dowels, dado grooves and Japanese joints... should be exciting and some of the ideas you share, will definitely help me get closer to cutting some wood :) Thanks
very nice simple project and thank you for sharing. great job.
My pleasure, Jason! I'm glad you liked the video 😄
Gonna break down and finally build one of these. Remembered you had a vid about it. Good stuff! That B-roll on the intro was 🔥 🔥 🔥
Awesome! The jig comes in handy more often than I’d like to admit. Not having had a good one, I’d come up with workarounds. Now it’s just easy to add splines without the Haarlem.
I really like your design! I just subscribed…thanks.
Thanks! Glad you liked the jig. I’ve been taking a little break to spend time with newest addition to the family, however, will have many jig videos in the near future. Cheers!
Good job man! I need to make one of these for myself.
love it man keep it going
Great work. I built one like this for the shop I go use. I can’t wait to build one for a table saw of my own.
Great job! If you’re new with your channel, it sure doesn’t show! Clear, concise and detailed instruction…. just subscribed and planning on building this fixture…. Appreciate your time and expertise! Looking forward to more…
Hello. You must put an adjustable safety stop behind your carriage so that your saw blade does not go too close to you!!! You are doing a good job. From France
When is the tour of your wood-shop coming?
Oh it is coming. I just have to tidy up the shop. So maybe in a year? lol. I'm hoping to do a shop tour video within a few months.
This is amazing and thorough! I just made my first tapering/jointing jig - I think I have about 6 inches of T-track left from that that I will use to make a half width version of this jig for my little jobsite saw. Thank you for your content and thorough explanation!
Thank you so much! It’s great to hear you found this jig and video useful. I still frequently use mine and imagine you’ll get lots of use out of it as well. Cheers!
Really well done video. Thank you for making and sharing. Good luck in growing your channel.
Nice of you to leave a kind comment. Thank you so much!
Hea you should use the miter slots in the table as a straight guide to the blade its more accurate good video
Awsome! Thx
Glad you like it!
This is the first time I see your videos and really enjoyed the way you put things together. Easy to understand! Your video will help me build one of these jigs and for that you got my subscription!
Thank you! I hope the jig build goes well for ya
Real good jig pretty neat set up this channel will be very popular soon
Thank you so much for the kind words!
Really like your channel I just found / superscribed, I look forward to your next videos, please keep up the awesome content : )
Great video Suman. If you rotated your miter joints 180 so that the miter cut sits directly on the runner board you will save about 1 inch of cut depth. All other elements of the design stay the same except your t-track will be on the other side of the same board.
Great tip! I agree. Realized that after the fact. haha.
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Lol I have my safety block painted bright red lol
lol I probably should as well.
Great video; though if you look up Bourbon Moth, he has done a rudimentary test on joints and mitre with spline was 1, mitre without was 2
Rudimentary is accurate. I’ll be doing something a lot more proper in the near future. I can’t imagine miter splines is actually weaker than just miters alone.
I should add a block to the cut area on mine.
Agreed. Its probably safer to add a block. Cheers!
nice jig. was going to cut parts for mine I was drawing up, but love this better. do you have one for box joints?
Thanks! No i do not yet have a box joint jig video. i'm working on it for a future vid :)
I see you screwed the T track into the jig. I'm about to use some T track in a project and the two methods I hear online are the screw in method and the 5 min epoxy method. Screws allow you to remove and reuse the track in other projects, but epoxy gets the screw heads out of the track. I'm not sure they're annoying enough for the cost/permanence of epoxy. Have you noticed the T bolts catching on those screw heads?
I haven't had any issues with the bolts (say, 1/4-20) or the t-track specific fasteners hitting the screws. I would recommend going with the screws over epoxy. The only major downside to the screws in a situation like this or on a crosscut sled is 3/4" thick ply. T track takes up about 1/2" of it and you only have little meat for the screws to hold on to. Still, plenty of strength for most woodworking tasks. Most screws may stick out a little. You can grind them flush. Or be really picky with the screws and get something super short. I would grind them flush.
Great video! Just subscribed. Any chance you might have plans for this build?
Thanks Mark- I don’t have an exact plan for it, however, a viewer made plans and sent to me. I’m not sure if it’s exactly to this build but it is pretty close. Message me at woodcraftbysuman@gmail.com and I’ll send it to ya.
If you can afford all that Purple Heart wood you made your workbench with, it doesn’t seem like plywood prices would affect you that much. That Purple Heart must have cost a fortune dude.
The presentation would be better if you posted written plans on it.
I agree. I am still a new channel and haven’t had the capacity to make quality plans as of yet. It is my goal to get my workflow efficient enough to create quality plans along with build videos like this. Thank you for the feedback