You are a genius you are always first to come out with all these cool jigs , tips and tricks to make stuff with for simple beginner wood worker like me so thank you and thank for sharing it .
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for making and posting this outstanding instructional video. We need to create a template for use in cutting a 20" x 60" elliptical lite into a door and have been wracking our brains trying to come up with a router solution. Before we found your post we were just going to draw it out and use a jigsaw to cut out the template, and clean it up as best we could. I have an enormous (and probably unwarranted) disdain for jigsaws. You just saved my weekend!
Thanks for sharing it Izzy. I admire that you always chose a simple pattern for your jigs and for the most functionality, although some of them are complicated, but they can't be otherwise. I certainly like your style . Thanks again.
I'm not nearly as creative as you but I do like and use your jigs and other stuff that you make. All my friends like my work and I am the first and loudest to give you credit when asked how I made something. It is people like you that let the rest of us shine a little brighter. Hope you keep doing what you do. Mostly because I need the help. Merry Christmas and may next year be great.
It is so simple to make!! I really like that the double sided tape leaves no center hole in the finished piece. Now, take a longer piece of your extra slider and set it up to attach to the swing arm like a short one. Bolt it to two holes in one track and you have a circle jig .. a two-fer. My Grandfather always said, "If it's only good for one thing, it's no damn good". However, this jig may be an exception.
When I was younger I used to see a smaller version of this in novelty shops and craft fairs. They were called "smoke grinders" or "do-nothing machines." I always knew there was a use for them and suspected one could draw an ellipse with it. Great job Izzy. You nailed it!
Deberías exportar todas tus lindas i útiles obras que fluyen de tus ideas maravillosas. Aquí en Nicaragua muchos carpinteros comprarian tus productos, veo qué son geniales, bendiciones hermano,me gusta mucho tu programa.
This is known as a Trammel of Archimedes [look that up on Wikipedia it has some really nice animations]. Ps: for cool factor you can play around with the angle between the rails and this will change the shape of the ellipse... At 0:41 that small block under your hand had 90 angles try changing that.
This is a serious case of curious coincidence for me. Just two days ago did I see a demonstration of this "Archimedes' Trammel" on Bruce Yeany's channel from a couple of years ago. And now Izzy makes this. I had not thought about its application for woodwork, but of course he has.
That is a sick jig izzy, I'm going to need to make one of those. Great Chanel and vids. Thanks! Oh and I loved the raptors, couldn't stop watching them just....go.....
Awesome stuff Izzy! ... watching this, the first use that came to mind for me was cutting sink holes in bathroom vanities.... I like Snappy too, I got a drill bit and countersink set from them back in March.
izzy I'm guessing that the assholes who gave you "thumb down" are just jealous of your inventive mind, all I have to say to you is: BRAVO. keep on doing your best and great videos. 👍
there is a limit with major and minor axis diameter with jig. You can usually solve with use of longer slides. Can use 50% shorter slider to slide minor axis than major axis to avoid collision). Then you can have a narrower eliptical tables
Fun Fact: This would be called device is very similar to that of a wanzer needle bar mechanism found in sewing machines. (especially older ones like singer, wanzer, etc). The wanzer needle bar mechanism is used to translate rotational movement to linear movement. in the case of the sewing machines, it takes the rotational movement of the motor and translates it into the linear movement of the needle.
I've been watching your videos for a while. I've used a couple of jigs for the band saw. Not sure if you create all the jigs yourself or if you modify patterns from other things you have seen. If you engineer most of them, I would consider you to be, genius. Love your stuff. I did subscribe.
Use a single sheet of paper as a shim between the slides and the blocks when attaching the latter. That'll give you a tight fit with just enough room for it to move.
Honestly given the innovation and the thinking outside the box (circle in this case) ideas you have shown in the past I was hoping for you to show people something more then the average ellipse jig. Modify this exact jig to create an ellipse that has a 2:1 or greater radius ratio. The length of the ellipse has to be double or more the width. Using only those short pivot slides your limiting the possible size of radius ratios this jig can achieve. Example you couldn't get a 2+:1 ellipse easily without having interference or cutting into the jig itself on the short sides. However if you made a secondary set of pivot slides that were as long as possible without interfering in the center then the pivot points could extend outside the circle and still be kept on their proper x and y axis, allowing for slender sexy ellipses instead of only fat ones.
You are a genius you are always first to come out with all these cool jigs , tips and tricks to make stuff with for simple beginner wood worker like me so thank you and thank for sharing it .
The "do nothing machine" actually does something! Nice job Izzy.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for making and posting this outstanding instructional video. We need to create a template for use in cutting a 20" x 60" elliptical lite into a door and have been wracking our brains trying to come up with a router solution. Before we found your post we were just going to draw it out and use a jigsaw to cut out the template, and clean it up as best we could. I have an enormous (and probably unwarranted) disdain for jigsaws. You just saved my weekend!
So glad I found this before I made my circle jig. Now I can do both with one jig. Thank you
Your idea is super great project
Thanks for sharing it Izzy.
I admire that you always chose a simple pattern for your jigs and for the most functionality, although some of them are complicated, but they can't be otherwise.
I certainly like your style . Thanks again.
I'm not nearly as creative as you but I do like and use your jigs and other stuff that you make. All my friends like my work and I am the first and loudest to give you credit when asked how I made something. It is people like you that let the rest of us shine a little brighter. Hope you keep doing what you do. Mostly because I need the help.
Merry Christmas and may next year be great.
Simple but brilliant and elegant !! Thank you!!
I've been thinking about making my own eliptical jig for awhile. Thanks for a great video on making one.
It is so simple to make!! I really like that the double sided tape leaves no center hole in the finished piece. Now, take a longer piece of your extra slider and set it up to attach to the swing arm like a short one. Bolt it to two holes in one track and you have a circle jig .. a two-fer. My Grandfather always said, "If it's only good for one thing, it's no damn good". However, this jig may be an exception.
The trammel of Archimedes. I've made a couple of smaller ones and they are a geometric wonder. Nice job on building a heavy duty one.
sweet rendition of an old tool. as always man that is sweet! love all your ideas!
Did you just call Izzy an old tool? jk
LOL did I do that or was that in your head and this just sparked it!
Lol!
Rockler circle cutting jig
Nice tool where even the eccentricity of the ellipse may be changed so easily. Congratulations.
Good brother mind blowing brain god bless you bro ..
I am also a carpenter in India ...
Delhi
Very very very very very very very god 👌👌👌🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for the detail information of how to set the planes
When I was younger I used to see a smaller version of this in novelty shops and craft fairs. They were called "smoke grinders" or "do-nothing machines." I always knew there was a use for them and suspected one could draw an ellipse with it. Great job Izzy. You nailed it!
Larry Lawhon Actually, he both nailed it and screwed it.
Seriously who would thumbs down this video. 😑 Amazing video(s). 😁👍👍👍
That is absolutely brilliant.
thank you
Cool video. neat idea. You do a good job of putting together the theory with the practical.
Deberías exportar todas tus lindas i útiles obras que fluyen de tus ideas maravillosas. Aquí en Nicaragua muchos carpinteros comprarian tus productos, veo qué son geniales, bendiciones hermano,me gusta mucho tu programa.
Mate .without sounding like a stalker. lol .. i have been following you since your first videos you never cease to amaze me bro
Thank you Brother
IZZY YOUR A GENIUS.
Awesome. I am going to make one of these out of metal to use the plasma cutter, that will be very handy.
yes!
Very nice izzy....Thank you for sharing...love the way your mind works.....and for keeping everything simple for us...simple takes a lot of hard work.
Always like the jigs you make.I was looking for a way to create angled mortises but this was importanter.
that's really cool, I'll have to build one of these for myself
That is really nifty! Thanks Izzy!
This is known as a Trammel of Archimedes [look that up on Wikipedia it has some really nice animations]. Ps: for cool factor you can play around with the angle between the rails and this will change the shape of the ellipse... At 0:41 that small block under your hand had 90 angles try changing that.
Ma shaa Allah ..respect from morocco
Izzy is the jig machine !
This is a serious case of curious coincidence for me. Just two days ago did I see a demonstration of this "Archimedes' Trammel" on Bruce Yeany's channel from a couple of years ago. And now Izzy makes this. I had not thought about its application for woodwork, but of course he has.
Got a coffee table build coming. This will be great to make the top with.
Izzy you're a genius!!!
Izzy never fails to amaze! Another awesome jig!
That is a sick jig izzy, I'm going to need to make one of those. Great Chanel and vids. Thanks! Oh and I loved the raptors, couldn't stop watching them just....go.....
WOW, great router jig...
great video,,,the jigs you design can very well help this budding wood worker. Thanks for the neat tools you design.
Fantastic jig to draw an oval piece, congratulations friend.
Awesome stuff Izzy! ... watching this, the first use that came to mind for me was cutting sink holes in bathroom vanities.... I like Snappy too, I got a drill bit and countersink set from them back in March.
Very good idea, congratulations !
This's an awesome invention ... like it .. good done ✅
thanks for sharing with ua yours great movies\idea!
Lax from Israel
Beautiful
izzy
I'm guessing that the assholes who gave you "thumb down" are just jealous of your inventive mind, all I have to say to you is: BRAVO.
keep on doing your best and great videos. 👍
I need one of this, super cool idea Izzy!
what did you think of working with bamboo?? seems like it would be a great material for shop fixtures, being extremely durable and very stable...
That's pretty slick.
Just brilliant. Thanks
Amazing would like to try building it could be very helpful
I have been looking for a name for the elliptical jig for a bit, then I was like "I know who will have at least one video on it" haha
PERFECT, EXCELLENT
Very cool idea! Thanks
I think this is just genius. I would like to ask those people who disliked this video to write a comment, why?
Wow really amazing idea 👍
Thank you for this pretty good information, I will make one for shure.
there is a limit with major and minor axis diameter with jig. You can usually solve with use of longer slides. Can use 50% shorter slider to slide minor axis than major axis to avoid collision). Then you can have a narrower eliptical tables
Unbelievable you are a good person thank you for the video
+5!!! Greatest from Croatia. Like you're t-shirt!!!
ok gracias lo pondré en practica saludos desde Veracruz México
Thanks a lot it was very helpfull for me. can you give me a tip how you make a narrow oval with the same jig?
Fun Fact: This would be called device is very similar to that of a wanzer needle bar mechanism found in sewing machines. (especially older ones like singer, wanzer, etc).
The wanzer needle bar mechanism is used to translate rotational movement to linear movement.
in the case of the sewing machines, it takes the rotational movement of the motor and translates it into the linear movement of the needle.
Congratulations !!! realy nice ! You ara always surprising with excelente ideas !!
Good job ,,,,,,,,,, SUPER JOB,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Great idea, I think I'll make one, it will be very useful. thanks and keep up the good work.
Very good work. Thank u
I've been watching your videos for a while. I've used a couple of jigs for the band saw. Not sure if you create all the jigs yourself or if you modify patterns from other things you have seen. If you engineer most of them, I would consider you to be, genius. Love your stuff. I did subscribe.
it's vary good work
Super cool there Sir Izzy!
thank you
excelente herramienta. gracias
Wow, so cool
Awesome to learn Izzy! Thanks
Awesome, I was looking for a way to draw a perfect large eclipse....this is it!!
Great jig! Love it! 🤓👍🏼
good job and good ideas
Excellent
Bravo come sempre!
Wonderful to learn more about the art Regards Anand P Deo
Oh, I need to make this in steel sometime
I love it mate
Красава! Нужная приспособа. Спасибо за полезное видео, обязательно себе такую сделаю.
gotta make one of those,
nice idea
Very very very very very good
Use a single sheet of paper as a shim between the slides and the blocks when attaching the latter. That'll give you a tight fit with just enough room for it to move.
Honestly given the innovation and the thinking outside the box (circle in this case) ideas you have shown in the past I was hoping for you to show people something more then the average ellipse jig. Modify this exact jig to create an ellipse that has a 2:1 or greater radius ratio. The length of the ellipse has to be double or more the width. Using only those short pivot slides your limiting the possible size of radius ratios this jig can achieve. Example you couldn't get a 2+:1 ellipse easily without having interference or cutting into the jig itself on the short sides. However if you made a secondary set of pivot slides that were as long as possible without interfering in the center then the pivot points could extend outside the circle and still be kept on their proper x and y axis, allowing for slender sexy ellipses instead of only fat ones.
That kind of reminds me of those spirograph sets that we used to have years ago. How intricate of a design can you make?
Mr. Swan?? You are the JIG MASTER! :)
Cool jig & I love the shirt. It's awsomer than anything I seen.
another great idea
awesome jig sir. Good luck in all you do.
Very nice sir
Cool video Izzy. Love the tee shirt.
Thanks, and cool shirt! :-)
Amazing
Muy buen video, Gracias por compartir.
Nicely done ! 😎
You are my hero!
good job, very well turned out (ellipses)
Great jig!
really cool
Excellent 👍