DIY Jig Knobs

I will search the forums guide but this might be faster…how do I get my pics to show properly? It seems that the right side of the pics are cutoff. Doesn’t it automatically autofit the pic?

It does seem to if you upload the picture to LumberJocks (I downloaded yours from photobucket, and uploaded it)...

PhotoBucket itself will let you resize the pictures to the “right” size, which seems to be a width of 640.

People here can “right click” and “View Image” whereupon they’ll get the full size version, but they don’t know there’s some missing, do they!

The site autoresizing would be good though.

BTW – cool and useful post!

-- "Do not speak – unless it improves on silence." --- "Following the rules and protecting the regulations is binding oneself without rope."

That’s alot easier than a tip I found on another web site and much nicer, thanks for posting.

-- ~ Bob ~ Newton, N.H.

Nice sequence. I’d make one suggestion though: If you screwed the knob down to a sacrificial board to cut the finger recesses, couldn’t you just drill one, rotate it, and drill the next?

I am looking now for excuses to make a few of these. Thanks for posting it. Have you tried this with Baltic birch ply?

Kindly,

Lee

-- "...in his brain, which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd with observation, the which he vents in mangled forms." --Shakespeare, "As You Like It"

Lee, im sure that would work but I prefer to rotate freely then secure to sacrificial board with a hold down clamp.
Im sure your idea is probably my faster and I guess I could secure it with a wind nut so it wouldn’t spin. I have 6to more to make in 5/16 and will try your idea.
BTW…the template is from an old fan that I disassembled and kept spare parts.
As for the ply…never made these before…youre looking at the first four but im sure ply would work.

Knick knack…thanks for the info. I also belong to routerforums and there is auto resizes…maybe they should add that option here.
Who do I need to speak to…LOL.

dask

Put a flat washer on the bottom so you don’t tear up the wood when tightening.

Very nice Blog ! Details AND Pictures even I could understand : ) LOL
Thank you and welcome to LJ’s !

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Thanks for the tip!

Great first post!

-- Randy "You are judged as much by the questions you ask as the answers you give..."

I am always looking for new ways of doing this….thanks!

-- EdwardNorton

I like your’s a lot batter.

Thanks for taking the time to post this tutorial. Looks like a fun little project and I trying to think of an excuse to make some. I think I will use a T-nut instead of a hex nut. It will provided more threads, (I think) and seems like it would be easier to insure it was in straight with the knob.

-- “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever; the goal is to create something that will.” - Chuck Palahniuk