Circle jig for bandsaw

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sawmill
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It is boards that was pulled from the stars:D . It is a white plastic material like they use in boats and it makes great cutting boards. It has a slight pebble finish and things will slide on it very easy
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It is boards that was pulled from the stars:D . It is a white plastic material like they use in boats and it makes great cutting boards. It has a slight pebble finish and things will slide on it very easy
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JPG40504 wrote:OK, what is 'star board'?
the other side if you're on port.
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Bandsaw Circle Jig

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Sawmill noted that he found a jig for himself but thought I would still share these that work for me. One with the plexiglass slide was from Shopnotes Vol 15 I believe and the plans can still be purchased online if you don't have access to the magazine. The other with the dowel was a modification from who knows where. I used a fixed distance for the dowel to cut a two inch wheel that is finished on the lathe. The board with clamp in photo three and four is used as a stop when pushing the square block into the blade. Either of these can be sized for use on the cast iron table. Also look at your PTWFE bandsaw section where a simple circle cutting jig is discussed.

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So I made a simple one to serve my porpoises of the day- making discs of from 2 to 23" diameter, accurately and repeatably.
On hand: one pi...

and I belatedly realized that the 'sled' can be moved to the Main table and used for finish sanding as is, with the conical disc.
Ah, so, something more to play with...
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Post by jere »

berry wrote:I made one years ago and it works fine. I can't remember where I saw it, but most of them seem pretty similar, IMHO. Not much to mine:

1. there's a bar from an old miter gauge
2. base (scrap pw)
3. slider (scrap hardwood)
4. nail (pivot pin)
5. C clamp (hold the unit on the band saw - not shown in pic)
6. spring clamp (to keep the slider from moving - not shown in pic)

And it's easy as can be to put it on the table and use with the disk sander too. The smallest circle I've made was a 5" diameter.
Very neat idea thanks for sharing! I am going to use that one also
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