Adjustable Box Joint Jig

As I previously noted I want to make some box jointed tool boxes since the issue of finding tools in my shop is just becoming silly. I want to make router lock jointed drawers for these tool boxes. To that end I am making a box joint jig, a router table, and a drill press table... Not necessarily in that order.

The Router table is complete. I still have to draw out some plans for the bench version that is put together and I will post that eventually.

I have the plan drawn out for the drill press table and will post it as soon as I can get it emailed to this account... probably in the next 2 days

I am going to post what I can on the adjustable box joint jig here. The jig is from ShopNotes Vol.2, Issue 8. Published July 1993 by Woodsmith. Obviously since this is copyright material and I will not just drop the thing into this blog. But I will drop the first page for your perusal and a couple of incomplete drawings I made from online sources.

The first page for your drool... LOL!

When I started looking for a jig and found a bunch of hints at the above jig but I couldn't find the source so I drew up what I knew from an Instructables and some partial images from Google Images and Pinterest. These are the drawings I made up. They are missing some key details since my public domain sources where incomplete as well.

Latter in trying to come up with the rest of the plan I found out is was from ShopNotes and tried to down load the plan. I failed. I could not get the site to let me download... still not sure why. https://www.woodsmithplans.com/plan/box-joint-jig/ is the site I tried to use and it just was very difficult... I am sure your luck with it would be better than mine... maybe.

Eventually I found the issue in my archive here at home and touched up my drawings so I can make up the jig. I do of course have the original article and plans. I wish all y'all luck if you want to build this jig. You will have a better start than what I had several weeks ago.

I found the below illustration from the Woodsmith plan site I previously mentioned. I thought it serves to fill in some of the blank spots I mentioned where in the public domain on jigs like this.

More later on the other parts of this project series for the tool boxes. 10-10-2017 CLHC

Comments

Recumbent tadpole trike: Posts on Velomobileforum p.10

I have recently built about 4 possible versions of the tilting mechanism I have beem toying with in my very informal test stand. Here are some pictures of the one I think will work the best. This is pretty much like I think it will be on the actual trike. The orientation on the outer tilting assembly may change a bit but it will be very similar to this. The shocks that are visible should be the ones I use. The tilt arm on the center shaft will be very similar. At this point I have gotten the general outline of what I want to do sketched out in my mind. I have another bathroom to work up and a garage shop to work up before I get back to this little project. Time to get some of the things I put off during the winter done so I can get back to the trike. The things I have been figuring out lately have been the way to get my steering kingpins made and I think that by using a female heim joint and a longer bolt with a spacer to hold the extension of the...

Recumbent tadpole trike: Posts on Velomobilforum p.4

Recumbent tadpole trike: Posts on Velomobilforum p.4 In response to Wolf and Hein, First Wolf's comment. What I am aware of is that there are quite a few tilters that do not use a monolithic steering system and have in fact decoupled the tilt in order to get the system to be stable. The brake application to the tilt is in fact an effort to stabilize the tilt. I am just before work here and have very little time to comment but I will try to cite examples later. Below is a general view of the Aileron tilting trike made by Wayne Soohoo it is pretty obvious wher the trike tilts. He controls the tilt by using a brake released with the steering handles. This is what I based my thoughts on for the theoretical spaceframe tilter. Instead of a remote release I think something like a direct brake would work as well. These data where gathered from http://jetrike.com/prior-art.html#Kurvenleger There are a quite a number of swing arm designs at this site. The above is the c...

Recumbent tadpole trike: Posts on Velomobilforum p.9

Hello Hein, Titan Wolf, Stefan, and trike like! I have been doing a few things in the last few weeks that I want to share. I last posted with some sketches that showed how I thought a potential tilt steering mechanism might look like. After reviewing the ideas and models I had previously made I made up the following models. The first is the basic geometry of a tilting assembly using Heim joints (Rod Ends) for the bearings. Heim joints are a bit of a departure from what I have been illustrating but would seem to be superior in some ways to thrust bearings. I do have dust covers for the bearings but they are not shown in place... Without the reinforcing structure necessary to hold the arms in place, as my previous post shows, the tilting mechanism will fold far beyond the furthest limit that might be used on the trike when tilting. I show this just to illustrate the potential. The furthest practical tilt would be somewhere near 45 degrees on a trike like this. I had ...

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