Thread: Home-made jigsaw table

There was an article in the current AABB on making a small jigsaw table.
I had made a combination jigsaw/circ saw table a decade or so ago.
Worked better as a jigsaw than circ saw table, & the article reminded me
that I missed having one.

The top of my old one was shot - 19mm chipboard which had got wet.
It was also a total PITA getting the jigsaw on & off the table, requiring
removal & reattachment of the sole plate. Figured by combining the old
table frame with the AABB article as a guide, I'd get the best of both worlds.

One thing I wasn't willing to do was drill holes in my sole plate. So I used
some old meranti cupboard door louvres to make a locating cradle, &
replaced the through-sole screws with clamping plates. The clamping
screws are epoxied in place.

Another refinement was to replicate the fine-cut plastic inserts for the
deWalt shoe by filling in the 8mm blade hole with epoxy, with an ice-cream
stick wrapped in elect tape inserted to create a narrow blade slot.
Pic 5 shows the back of a cut in a bit of old, splintery pac maple 3-ply.
Clean.

Result is a sweet working table on which I was able to accurately cut out
MIK's foil templates with a miniscule amount of sanding to finish off. Same
deal with the lower curve of the foil itself (40 seconds with a coarse blade).
The locating blocks for the top onto the frame are tight, but despite this,
the saw can be removed/inserted in about a minute flat.

Well worth the effort...
cheers
AJ