You can watch how to make them in my woodworking channel in youtube.
Woodworking leveling jig. Everybody has its favourite woodworking jigs. Nick offerman s router sled leveling jig how to ep. In this video we can take a glance to 10 of my favourite woodworking jigs. This jig was built similarly to nick offerman s slab leveling jig featured in fine wood working magazine.
Router jig to flatten wood get hands dirty. First log was on a small log as a test. Erich lage flattening twisted and rough cut lumber is a breeze with this jig. Nick offerman s shopmade router jig flattens thick slabs to create nakashima style tabletops and other unique pieces.
In this video you can watch me build a jig to plane wood without having a planer. Leveling and flattening surfaces so that they re smooth as a. Also standard drill press tables don t have a fence or an insert to back up holes drilled all the way through a piece of wood. Then used table saw and band saw to rip the planks.
Quickly and easily build this woodworking jig to level slabs and stumps to use in your. Router leveling jig by. I ve got a ton of oak slabs from a tree i milled and i need a good jig to flatten them. Make the table from three layers of 1 2 in.
This jig solves these problems. Many drill press tables are too small for woodworking because they were designed for metalworking. Slab leveling router jig planing sled. Resulting planks were 25 moisture content so it will be a while before i can use the wood.
There are a ton of these things floating around the internet so i. I recalled reading a fine woodworking article where nick offerman made a jig and i decided to do something similar. The heart of the jig is a trough that guides the router over the workpiece allowing you to even out the high and low points as much as possible and retain the maximum possible thickness. I work with a lot of rough sawn lumber and live edged tree slices like the one shown above.
Unfortunately my planer is usually either too small to handle such large pieces or it would cause too much tearout on endgrain. The flattinging jig was fatured in a article on nick offerman in fine woodworking. Medium density fiberboard glued together.