A furniture jig is a simple mechanical device that serves to speed up and simplify the actions when drilling holes. The use of this device allows you to create technological holes without pre-applied markings and do this with perfect accuracy, as well as a adjusted slope. The device is indispensable during the assembly of furniture structures and carpentry work. For use in everyday life and in small-scale production, it is very easy to make a furniture jig with your own hands.
Essentially, a furniture jig is regular template with holes required diameter. The working part of the device is a rectangular block of solid material with holes located according to the required markings. For convenience, it can be equipped with adjusting and locking mechanisms. Based on the simplicity of the design, you can quickly make stencils for furniture with your own hands using available materials.
The jig ensures the desired direction of the drill at an angle of 90 degrees to the surface, eliminating the possibility of deviation. This is especially important when working with narrow parts of furniture, such as the ends of walls or doors. Without this device it is quite difficult to survive desired angle, which can lead to defects, because even a slight deviation in the direction of the mounting hole can make assembly impossible individual elements into a single structure.
For a perfect fit of furniture elements to each other also great importance has precision location of holes for fasteners. Those who make furniture with their own hands are often faced with the need to create a number of identical holes at a certain distance from each other. To make the work easier, make it faster, it’s easier not to mark up every time, but to use a template.
With the help of a conductor you can work with different furniture materials: wood, chipboard, MDF.
Selecting a model for production
Conductors industrial production There are highly specialized and universal. Templates of the first type are used to perform certain operations on typical parts. Universal devices suitable for working with different materials and objects of various configurations.
By design features and functionality, conductors are divided into the following types:
- overhead - when used, they are applied to the surface in the desired area, fixed with clamps or held by hand. Used for drilling holes in flat parts;
- rotary - the working part moves in both vertical and horizontal planes. Used when working with complex elements geometric shape and to create holes, the axis of which should be located at an angle;
- tipping - used to create holes in perpendicular planes.
A marking jig is used to mark the locations for drilling holes. It is much thinner and lighter.
The conductor device can be specially created for a certain type of fastener: dowels, confirmations, screws, corners. There are devices to simplify the process of installing fittings.
According to the type of fixation, furniture jigs can be sliding or fixed. The former move freely along the surface if necessary, the latter are rigidly fixed in in the right place. The presence of an adjustment mechanism will help to combine the device with different types of workpieces.
For large manufacturers furniture availability of variety additional accessories plays decisive role, since they significantly reduce time costs. IN in this case The cost of the tools doesn't really matter. A completely different approach to purchasing the necessary equipment from those who have a small furniture manufacturing plant or from independent masters manufacturing certain types of furniture. In this case, making furniture templates with your own hands turns out to be much cheaper and more practical. Choice the necessary options, the complexity of the device is determined not only by production needs, but also by the skill and experience of furniture manufacturers.
Overhead
Turning
Universal
Materials and tools
To manufacture a device, you must first decide on the tasks that it will perform. Accordingly, they are selected required material, from which a furniture template will be made with your own hands. The most durable, reliable and “long-lasting” is considered to be a metal conductor. To create a furniture jig for drilling with your own hands, it is permissible to use wood, plywood, textolite, and plexiglass. This is due to lower labor costs and cheaper materials. All this is important, especially if you are going to make several different templates yourself.
To make a conductor, a piece of reinforcement, a block or a plate is suitable - something that can probably be found in any garage or home workshop. To make a simple marking device, you can take a regular school ruler - wooden, plastic or metal.
Of decisive importance in the manufacture of the jig is the accurate calculation of the location of the holes on the workpiece. You can take ready-made diagram or make it yourself. The latter option is preferable, since the dimensions in the drawings must correspond to the tasks being solved.
Tools you will need:
- drill;
- grinder or jigsaw;
- a set of locksmith tools;
- clamps;
- vice.
When manufacturing a jig, you will need perfectly accurate drilling of guide holes and hardening of the finished device
Drawing of a homemade conductor for drilling holes for confirmations
Manufacturing stages
Let's consider the process of creating a metal conductor device for confirmations. This fastener is most often used when assembling furniture:
- A piece of the required length is cut from a square metal block (10x10 mm) using a grinder. The ends of the resulting segment are leveled and cleared of burrs using a file. Corners and edges can be rounded for ease and safety of use;
- The hole locations are marked on the workpiece. Their centers should be located at a distance of 8 mm from the side edge (the thickness of the chipboard sheet is 16 mm). There should be 32 mm from the end and between the holes, in accordance with the generally accepted system of furniture fastenings. For marking, you can use a carpenter's angle or caliper. It is better to make marks on the part using a sharp metal object- an awl or a large needle. You can use a core and a hammer to make holes for the initial installation of the drill. When drilling holes, it is important to prevent the drill from moving and make them strictly perpendicular to the surface of the workpiece;
- use a drill with a diameter of 5 mm to make holes;
- to create a stop you need to cut a piece of the required length from metal plate(1x25 mm);
- finish the edges with sandpaper;
- bend the workpiece at a right angle, holding it in a vice. Fold the parts, aligning them coaxially;
- fasten the parts in this position using a clamp;
- From the side of the plate along the length of the device and at the end, drill holes corresponding to the size of the screw. Cut threads and fasten parts;
- Cut off the excess thrust plate and process the edges.
Video
The main fastening element in furniture assembly is the confirmat. It is screwed in with pre-drilled holes. It is the drilling of assembly holes in chipboard for confirmations that we will consider in this article.
To assemble the chipboard parts we will need:
- Screwdriver
- Confirmation bat
- Ruler or tape measure
- Pencil and awl
Hole depth and width
Usually a confirmat size of 6.4*50 is used. Because the thread diameter is 6.4 mm, and the diameter of the confirmation body is 4.4 mm, then for high-quality fastening of parts, the hole diameter must be in the range of 4.5-5 mm and a depth of at least 50 mm.
If the thickness of the hole is greater than the specified one, the confirmat will not hold the parts well; if it is less, its thickness can tear the chipboard.
For drilling, use a confirmat drill with a diameter of 4.5 mm, which is equipped with an additional head for drilling an enlarged hole for the neck of the confirmat, which also makes a countersink for its head.
Of course, you can use a regular drill with a diameter of 5 mm, but for high-quality fastening in the hole you will additionally need to make space for the neck of the confirmat and its head.
In order to perfectly fasten two parts, it is necessary to mark the places of their fastenings as accurately as possible.
On the part that will overlap the end (the one on which there will be through hole), you need to make two measurements - along the length (usually 5-10 cm) and from the edge - exactly 8 mm (this is if the thickness of the slab is 16 mm).
On a part that lies perpendicular, mark the drilling point at the end. Here you need to maintain the same distance in length (5-10 cm from the beginning), and in width - strictly in the center (8 mm from the edge).
Markings must be done as accurately as possible, especially along the length, because If the markings are incorrect, your parts may have extra gaps or protrusions when joined.
It is better to make a through hole in the first part, attach it to the second - and immediately use a drill to mark the drilling location at the end of the second part. And then, separately, calmly drill the hole.
We make a hole at a distance of 8 mm from the edge.
The drill should ALWAYS be held strictly perpendicular to the surface.
Before making a through hole, place a piece of unnecessary chipboard under the part. This will prevent chips from appearing on the reverse side.
When the through hole is made, the part can be drilled on the fly to drill holes for the neck and head of the confirmat.
The main rule is that when drilling at the end, the drill must be strictly perpendicular to the end of the part. If you don't hold the drill straight, the drill bit may go sideways and come out, ruining the part.
When drilling, you need to pull the drill out several times so that chips do not clog in the hole.
This option is considered the most accurate and, moreover, the fastest. But in order to make a hole in two parts at the same time, you will need to fix them before drilling. To do this, you may need special clamps, clamps and other devices.
Hole Drilling Tools
In order not to mark 8 mm from the edge each time both into the layer and at the end, you can use special device, which, by the way, is easy to do yourself.
It is a kind of wooden template with a metal sleeve for a drill inside.
It looks like this, see photo:
And this is a more professional thing:
Watch a short video on how to accurately drill holes in chipboard for confirmations and assemble furniture parts:
Drilling for dowels
The hole for the dowels is made with an 8 mm drill. Also, in order not to drill through the part, it is advisable to equip it with a depth limiter.
At the end we drill with the same drill to a depth of 20 mm. Do not forget that during any work the drill must be strictly perpendicular to the plane of the part.
Of course, if you picked up a drill for the first time in your life, you won’t do very well. But this activity can be learned quite quickly.
A jig for drilling holes greatly facilitates the work of furniture makers and other specialists who, due to their line of work, have to make precise holes in wood, chipboard, MDF, metal and other materials.
What kind of conductors are there and whether this device can be made with your own hands are the main questions that the article is devoted to.
Basic information about conductors
Conductors – simple devices, a kind of templates that have been successfully used in mechanical engineering for a long time.
They allow you to make a hole in the right place and at a strictly defined angle. The scope of application of jigs is very wide, from drilling machines to diamond drilling installations.
Today, every furniture maker has in his arsenal a set of these tools that allow him to assemble furniture cabinets, install fittings and perform other operations.
Conductors are needed in construction (for example, to make holes in the wall of a building) and various industries.
As a rule, only overhead models are used here, which are made from lightweight materials to facilitate the work of the master.
A furniture jig can be factory-made or made by hand.
Many craftsmen have such a trained eye and precise hand that it is not at all difficult for them to drill holes at the desired angle without additional devices. However, this requires enormous experience and, perhaps, talent.
With the help of the tool that this article is devoted to, even a novice furniture maker will be able to make precise holes for dowels and assemble cabinet furniture without complex preliminary calculations and markings. This reduces labor intensity and, therefore, the cost of work and speeds up the process.
Before you buy or make a conductor, you need to decide on the types and purpose.
Overhead jigs are so named because they are placed on the workpiece to be worked with. They are either fixed to the part or simply held by hand.
Using overhead tools, for example, holes are made in MDF boards.
Rotary jigs are necessary if you need holes on the surface of the cylinder. Inclined, vertical and horizontal rotation axes allow you to drill holes at different angles.
Unified jigs are especially in demand in small batch production, where it is necessary to drill many holes in similar parts of various sizes.
This is possible thanks to the ability to retool the tool under different size details.
The scope of application of tiltable conductors is the need to make holes in several planes.
The sliding jig does not need to be fixed on the surface of the machine - it is adjusted to the specific surface in which a hole needs to be drilled.
It is more convenient to work with fixed models, but sliding models provide the master with a certain freedom of action when working on a single-spindle drilling machine, especially if several holes are needed on one surface.
Something about the scope
The jig for drilling holes is included in the list necessary tools for furniture assembly. One of the difficulties when making any holes is that the drill may enter the material being drilled at the wrong angle.
It can take a lot of effort and time to correct the situation, and not all errors can be corrected.
The jig serves not only as a template, thanks to which the master understands where to drill, but also guides the drill and prevents it from deviating from the given direction.
First of all, the tool is necessary for specialists who produce furniture, but during assembly it is not so uncommon when a finished furniture set does not have the necessary holes, for example, for dowels.
The jig is indispensable for drilling thin boards, such as chipboard, for making holes at an angle and many other operations.
Accurate, simple, quick assembly of furniture always occurs with the participation of this tool. With its help, you can make a hole at any distance from the edge of the part, regardless of its width.
One of the operations in which you cannot do without a conductor is the installation of dowels.
By by and large, dowels are last century, in modern furniture production already use other types of fasteners to connect various parts of cabinet furniture. However, connections using dowels are still quite widely used.
The main difficulty in assembling them lies precisely in the accuracy of the location of the holes, and in a strictly perpendicular direction, so that the parts can be connected at an angle of 90°.
If even one hole is in the wrong place or at the wrong angle, this will lead to errors that are quite difficult to correct. A special tool is called a doweling jig.
Furniture is a common, but not the only area of application for drilling tools. The second important area is drilling pipes and other cylindrical workpieces. Conductors allow you to drill even small-diameter pipes.
If collected different kinds templates for drilling on one workbench, it turns out that they are very different in appearance and size.
Some are easier to buy factory-made, especially if making tools is not your hobby, others can be made with your own hands without much difficulty.
Multifunctional conductors from famous manufacturers They’re not cheap – by assembling them yourself, you can save a lot of money.
Conductors of our own production
The simplest tools are inexpensive, so many craftsmen find it easier to buy them. However, there are enthusiasts for whom instrument making is of some interest.
In addition, with your own hands you can make a truly durable tool that will faithfully serve for many years.
Another reason to make your own tool is if you need a template for custom holes.
There are a large number of drawings and video instructions on the Internet for making jigs for drilling with your own hands.
For this you need a set of tools:
- drill;
- corner Grinder(Bulgarian);
- standard set of locksmith tools;
- welding machine - not necessary in all cases, but for making the most complex tools with your own hands, it may be required.
Another argument in favor of making conductors yourself - every craftsman will probably have necessary preparations for their manufacture: wooden blocks, pieces of reinforcement, metal plates.
The template jig for accurately marking and drilling holes along it is so simple that even a novice craftsman can make it.
Take the fittings from square section 10 x 10 mm (or larger) - the required length must be cut with a hacksaw or grinder.
It is advisable to prepare the sections using a file and sandpaper. This is the basis of the future conductor.
Now you need to mark the holes. One of them should be located at a distance of 8 mm from the edge of the jig - at this distance is the central part of the chipboard board.
Furniture standards dictate the pitch between the holes - it is 32 mm. According to this marking it is necessary to drill holes with a diameter of 5 mm.
The jig is almost ready for use, but if you equip it with a stop, it will be much more convenient to assemble the furniture.
It is made from a metal plate 1 mm thick and 25 mm wide. The blank for the stop must be bent at a right angle and secured in the clamp together with the already finished part made of reinforcement.
Now you need to make holes for the threads and fasten the two parts together with bolts.
The furniture jig can be equipped with half plastic bottle so that drilling holes is not so dusty. From the same plastic bottle you can build a small tray for collecting chips.
This is the simplest jig for drilling holes, thanks to which the assembly of cabinet furniture will become much easier.
With it, you don’t have to worry that the drill may enter the chipboard crookedly or drill through it.
Make maximum and accurate holes in products based on natural wood, metal, MDF or chipboard can be done using a special conductor. This is an indispensable thing for those who produce furniture; such a device is also needed in other areas.
Such a conductor can be purchased ready-made, or you can make it yourself.
Features of application in the furniture industry
Conductors and templates are needed when assembling furniture. With these things, you will prevent a common problem that occurs during drilling - the drill hitting the part at the wrong angle. Correcting such an error will take an extremely long time, in some cases it will even be impossible.
A jig for making holes will not only allow you to correctly orient the working tool, but will also prevent it from straying from the desired trajectory.
In the furniture industry, conductors and templates are used in the following cases:
When using such a device, the assembly process will be much easier and faster, required holes you can do this no matter how far they should be from the edge of the part or how wide it is.
At self-assembly Furniture often has to be joined end-to-end using dowels. Holes for dowels are best made using a special jig. The peculiarity of dowels is that despite the fact that such fasteners, although outdated, are still relevant in furniture production.
The difficulty in their use lies in the fact that the axes of the holes that are made in the parts when connecting must have a right angle with each other. Accordingly, they must be placed strictly perpendicular to each other. It is difficult to do this without a special device. Therefore, if you want to achieve High Quality execution, it is recommended to buy a dowel jig.
Other uses
Hole jigs are used not only in furniture production. Quite often they are used when you need to make a hole in a pipe or other cylindrical part. Thanks to them, you can make a high-quality hole even in a pipe with a small diameter.
Such devices are universal and easy to use, so they are also used in the following industries:
- mechanical engineering - drilling holes in different-sized workpieces based on different materials;
- construction - drilling holes in building structures;
- home communications - as already mentioned, pipe drilling and more.
Modern drilling jigs can be different sizes and have different principle work. Some of them are complex, so they are easier to buy. And some modifications can be made independently, especially since some serial furniture models, especially those with universal purposes, are expensive.
Benefits of use
Essentially, such a jig acts as a template for making holes so that they are made as accurately as possible. They can be used for those holes whose axis is perpendicular to the surface of the workpiece, as well as for working at an angle.
This tool - great alternative sketches and manual measurements. You can place the drill strictly at the desired angle in relation to the workpiece and will not allow any deviation. The result will be especially noticeable if we're talking about about making deep holes.
If you use such a high-quality device for working with chipboard, then it should have the following characteristics:
- facilitate quick assembly of furniture without the need to use complex tools;
- make it possible to make several holes simultaneously without manual marking;
- significantly improve the quality of work with the drill.
Conductors are made from different materials; there are models based on plastic or organic glass. However, the best option is considered to be steel., which has such advantages as:
- minimal likelihood of deformation;
- the drill is directed as clearly as possible;
- no heating during operation.
Very often in the role furniture conductors they use overhead models based on lightweight materials that are easy to manipulate. Many people use factory or homemade tools.
And most qualified and experienced craftsmen They no longer use a jig because they can easily make a hole in structures on their own as accurately as possible. But not everyone can do this.
The key advantage of such a device is that the work can be performed as accurately and efficiently as possible, even by a person who does not have the proper experience. You don't have to do markups and complex preliminary calculations. You will save a lot of time and produce furniture much faster.
Classification of tools
Before you buy a ready-made conductor or make it yourself, you need to decide what tasks you will solve with its help and only then you need to select suitable option in design and function.
DIY jig for drilling holes
As already mentioned, depending on the scope of use and design, you can make some options yourself, thanks to which you will save a significant amount.
Before work, find the required device drawing and make everything strictly according to it.
Tools required for work:
- welding machine;
- Bulgarian;
- drill;
- locksmith supplies.
To make the simplest version of the conductor with your own hands, we perform the following steps:
As you can see, such a device is very simple in terms of self-made, but it will greatly simplify the work if you are making furniture. If you are doing this exclusively as an amateur, then this option will be sufficient. If you can't make it yourself, buy ready-made option, perhaps the simplest and most inexpensive.
Here's some professional equipment will cost much more, the feasibility of purchasing it already exists when we are talking about at least a small serial production. But with its help you can easily and quickly connect pieces of furniture or repair it.
So, you have learned what a hole jig is and how it helps in furniture production. This device can be purchased at finished form, do it yourself.
A drilling jig is an indispensable attribute in large-scale production, no matter what kind. Where there is a lot of drilling, it is really necessary, especially when production is serial or mass.
With the help of the conductor to a large extent production is accelerating, the worker’s work is made easier.
A drilling jig, as a rule, is a bar (plate) with holes and bushings (sleeves). Using a jig it is much easier, for example, to drill pipes.
As for furniture production, they are also used here, although recently.
With the help of such equipment, the manufacturer is relieved of the following problems:
- Marking.
- Punching (point depressions in the material for a drill).
- Drilling while maintaining perpendicularity.
The latter is especially difficult to achieve, since it requires serious skills acquired only over the years.
Some operations, for example, drilling for dowels (short wooden rods designed for hidden joining of parts), require very precise markings, and no less precision drilling at an angle of 90°.
With such a device as a conductor, these tasks are solved easily and simply.
Types: choose the one you need
Invoices. They do not require fixation before being used for their intended purpose. Structurally simple, mobile, but they need to be held with a hand free from the drill, since often the equipment is not secured in special device, which is not very convenient. Considering simplicity of design making it yourself is quite simple. Used when drilling chipboard and MDF.
Jigs for drilling holes at an angle. The design is easy to imagine, since the name speaks for itself. Such equipment can also be an overhead one. In production quality furniture There is also drilling at an angle, which is not the simplest operation in production process- this requires skill. Although in this case the required angle is sometimes violated, the assembly as a result will not be of such high quality and will suffer appearance furniture, especially if it is not made of chipboard, but of wood - here you won’t be able to fill in an unsightly drill. The equipment desired design completely eliminates unnecessary problems.
Rotary conductors. They have folding brackets, and this allows drilling on two adjacent planes.
Sliding gearboxes. With their help, you can drill several holes without reinstallation. To work with such equipment, the necessary skills are still required.
Device for drilling holes for dowels and confirmats
Despite the fact that today a lot of new accessories have appeared in the furniture industry, the good old dowel is still used. This is explained by the fact that the connections are not visible through this piece of fittings, and this is especially valuable in the production of furniture made from natural wood.
As already mentioned, drilling for dowels creates many problems for furniture makers, especially those who are not sufficiently qualified.
In order to furniture planes were perfectly joined, precise marking is necessary, and this equipment allows you to speed up the work and bring the quality to the required level.
Working with confirmats - special furniture screws - although less troublesome, also requires certain skills. And considering how many holes need to be marked and drilled before screwing the confirmation into one piece of furniture, such a device will significantly speed up the work, and its quality too.
The simplest devices
- The conductor is two-slider. It allows you to drill holes in two adjacent (mating) parts. The device is constructed of two rulers, which serve as guides and are connected to a mounting strip. The holes made in it make it possible to install the strip on parts of different widths. Housings moved along rulers (replaceable) have a set of guide bushings, where the distances between them are different. The conductor is fixed by means of a connecting strip, and on the opposite side there is a travel limiter, pressed by a thumbscrew.
- The conductor is multi-position. Fastened with clamps. The design allows for vertical drilling. It is made of thick-walled aluminum angle. Since the device is quite long, it is equipped with an intermediate fastening in the center of the structure. The thick wall of the angle was used very successfully, which cannot be overestimated at the moment of placing the device on the surface of the part and when reinstalling the jig to 90°. The selection of the distance between the bushings is carried out according to the most common values provided for installing dowels or confirmations.
Procedure for working with a conductor:
- The device is fixed on the workpiece.
- The sleeve is inserted into the hole.
- Drill through the sleeve.
DIY furniture jig: drawings with dimensions to help
The principle of this equipment:
- Frame corner type. It is superimposed on the planes of the parts, which will then be connected to each other.
- Guide bushings. The drill will go through them.
- Clamping devices. They fix the conductor and are made from the end part.
Designing your own jig should be based on the fact that with the help of this equipment it is possible to do most of the work performed related to various types of fasteners.
Important! If you need a universal assistant - this applies to professional furniture makers, then it would be better to purchase industrial equipment that is made more accurately and with high quality. It is this kind of device that will be preferable and will quickly pay for itself, especially if you also take into account the fact that this device often comes with many different templates, stops and other little things that are also necessary in the work. They are much cheaper than buying at retail.
And yet this device, if necessary, can be made with your own hands.
Such equipment may not be needed very often in a given production, let alone home handyman- especially. So for many users it will be much more profitable to do it themselves.
If the design of such remains relevant, then you need to prepare materials for the manufacture of a homemade conductor for drilling for confirmation:
- Corner. Your choice should be made on the unequal type of this rental - its possibilities are wider. The corner shelf should be chosen with the greatest thickness, which can reach up to 8 mm. This is quite justified, since then guide bushings can be inserted, outside diameter which reaches 6 mm. Based on this, you can use drills from 3.5 to 4 mm. Even if that diameter is not enough, then the material is drilled out with a large drill, without using any other devices.
- Guide bushings. Here pipes from of stainless steel, which are selected primarily by internal diameter. Example: a 6x1.5 pipe is suitable for a drill no larger than 2.7 in diameter. Explanation: its internal hole will be 3 mm, and a small gap along the entire internal diameter is taken into account due to thermal expansion of the material. The length of the sleeve is the depth of the hole in the corner, multiplied by two or more. The fit of the bushings is either transitional, or with an interference fit, or according to the shaft system. The latter is the most appropriate.
Instead of pipes, of course, you can use ready-made bushings used in wire drawing machines - these are available, for example, in mechanical engineering. Such parts (even used ones) come in handy: they are made of alloy steel and have an almost unlimited service life.
Choosing a mounting method
Options:
- Fixation with self-tapping screws. They are screwed into the part, which prevents the device from moving due to friction. This is convenient because these marks will be needed for subsequent drilling of other holes.
- Spring stop. It will securely fix the jig to the part. For such a stop, a flat spring with an appropriate clamping force is suitable.
- External clamps. Rubber pads must be placed under them. Corrugated rubber is ideal as a material. This, of course, slightly increases the weight of the equipment, and the elasticity of the pads can negatively affect the perpendicularity of the bushings. To prevent this from happening, the drill is inserted into the sleeve to mark the hole, and only then the clamps are clamped.
For drilling pipes and cylindrical parts
IN modern furniture Not only chipboard, fibreboard, MDF and wood are used. As additional elements may be applied steel pipes various diameters. Covered with chrome or stainless steel, they perfectly complement the overall furniture ensemble.
It is very difficult to drill into a spherical surface - the drill tends to slide to the side. And it’s not so easy to mark when there are a lot of holes and they are located in several rows.
In order to ensure that the pipe does not turn out to be the notorious colander, but the correct part with precisely made holes, you will need a jig - this perfect solution in the current situation.
There are steel conductors made in the form of an adjustable clamp. This design feature allows pipes to be clamped into them different diameters and drill holes in them with high precision.
Not being able to make such a device, you can use waste materials, making an even simpler device using a block and a strip of plywood. Thus, a block cut diagonally lengthwise into circular saw, can be nailed or screwed with screws at an angle of 90° to the plywood. The resulting device is placed on top of the pipe, and a strip of plywood, resting against a table or workbench, prevents the specified angle from being violated. Holes of the required diameter pre-drilled in the block are placed taking into account the required distances between future holes, which will allow you to quickly and accurately drill the pipe exactly according to the drawings.
DIY furniture conductors and templates
How conductors are made is now clear, as is their necessity for furniture production.
Not only conductors, but also templates are needed in furniture production. The simplest template will sometimes save a lot of time and allow drilling to be no less accurate than a jig.
For example, the simplest metal prefabricated template, consisting of two sheet blanks measuring 130x70 mm and a steel square with a cross-section of 20 mm. They are connected to each other with screws at the top of the structure - this is how they are attached to the square. The square is drilled for the bushings, where the latter are pressed. Such a device for drilling holes in the end of a part made of chipboard will make it possible to drill without thinking about marking and perpendicular drilling. And the price of this equipment is below any idea of savings.
Instead of metal, you can and should use those materials that are inexpensive and easy to process.
Materials:
- Plywood.
- Textolite or fiberglass - preferably thick.
- Hardwood.
- Hardboard or its equivalent.
It must be borne in mind that these materials are short-lived, and so that the devices do not have to be made every day, it is quite reasonable to press metal tubes into them.
In conclusion, it is worth summing up what has been said. Making a conductor or template yourself or buying it in a store is a matter for everyone individually. If a home craftsman needs to make some furniture in a single copy and there is material for a conductor, as well as the possibility of making it, you can use this. It is possible that such equipment will never be useful to the master again.
But if even a small furniture workshop is engaged in the production of serial furniture, and enough people work in it, it is probably easier to purchase something ready-made, especially since these irreplaceable helpers They will need several masters.
In the latter case, it makes sense to purchase more expensive, accurate and wear-resistant jigs instead of making homemade ones, which are less accurate and durable.
Good luck in your work!
