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Where do you keep your jigs

Started by greggy, Yesterday at 04:30:04 PM

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greggy

Many years ago I made myself a small chest of drawers and put lockable casters on.
My machine sits on top and I do my grinding/ sharpening on that.
Now up to now all my jigs have been in the drawers and looking a mess.
But now I have made myself some foam inserts where you draw around your jigs and
then cut them out.
All in all it's cost me £15 for the foam from
https://shadowfoam.com/

MikeK

I built a dedicated sharpening station in my basement shop using left over plywood, MDF, drawer slides, and handles from other projects.  I bought the counter top, sink, faucet, boiler, pump, and plumbing hardware.





My basement is below grade, so I had to add a boiler under the sink for hot water and a lift pump to pump the waste water above the connection to the drain.




I chose the internal width of each of the drawers to accommodate the inserts that came with most of the jig sets I bought.  Some of the jigs didn't come with inserts, so I made custom inserts using Kaizen foam.  Each drawer is longer than the insert, so I added a partition to keep the inserts in place and create another storage area in each drawer.










The T8 is stored on a slide out tray and moved to a drawer with heavy duty slides when needed.










The plywood tray remains in the drawer and has space beneath it for additional storage.