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Thread: Grizzly Tenon Jig Upgrade (?)

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    Grizzly Tenon Jig Upgrade (?)

    The Grizzly jig isn't top of the line, but I was buying a lot of stuff at once and decided to opt out of the $300 tenoning jig and bought the Grizzly instead.

    It required a complete dismantling, de-greasing, and re-assembly to get everything properly set up. After that process (~1 relaxed hour), the only problem I had with it was the cheesy piece that holds the back of the work piece. It's flimsy and is just an odd design. I wanted to practice with this thing first by making a simple box joint (I don't have a box joint jig and was hoping this could double as one anyway).

    So I made the frankenstein thing below. Just tacked together so far. Only made one cut so far, but it seems to work well. I need to make my sacrificial side piece for the jig tonight.


    Cheers,

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    PS: Those astute photo detectives will see too many holes in the vertical piece and notice the odd horizontal piece locations. That's because I spent a lot of time thinking about the best position of the horizontals, pre-drilled my vertical piece and then brought everything over to the welding table and promptly screwed it all up. Not to fear! I then re-drilled the holes in the wrong spot once I figured out my mistake.... Third time's a charm. So I hear : )
    Last edited by andrew whicker; 03-23-2017 at 1:23 PM.

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    Nice upgrade. That little piece of bent metal isn't much but I've never had a problem with it. And I so very rarely use the jig....

    Does the added weight make it tippy at all?

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    Not much tippiness factor. Focusing on putting pressure on the left part.

    Worked pretty well

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