What are jigs and fixtures?
If you take a picture or a plan or idea for something, you can pretty well duplicate that single plan for example. But, without jigs, the duplication entails hand finishing, hand to eye adjusting and then certain allowable waste. But when you first design a simple, basic jig and you hand finish and use a precision instrument to adjust the jig, you have an automatic device that will almost forever reproduce the parts necessary to make things in volume. That is what many still dont apply to their thousands of possible plans and ideas and innovations, especially the ones in their head. In other words, as far as woodworking is concerned, when we concentrate on building the jig first, the secret is, even an inexperienced person can follow up, even to make a surplus of almost any plan or any practical item that we can imagine. Meanwhile, the innovator can implement this system to begin to design the jigs and tools for the next project. So one operation has been automated and producing effect
If you take a picture or a plan or idea for something, you can pretty well duplicate that single plan for example. But, without jigs, the duplication entails hand finishing, hand to eye adjusting and then certain allowable waste. But when you first design a simple, basic jig and you hand finish and use a precision instrument to adjust the jig, you have an automatic device that will almost forever reproduce the parts necessary to make things in volume. That is what many still dont apply to their thousands of possible plans and ideas and innovations, especially the ones in their head. In other words, as far as woodworking is concerned, when we concentrate on building the jig first, the secret is, even an inexperienced person can follow up, even to make a surplus of almost any plan or any practical item that we can imagine. Meanwhile, the innovator can implement this system to begin to design the jigs and tools for the next project. So one operation has been automated and producing effect
