Measuring a Box Joint Jig

Video Transcript

"We're going to measure from the table in my case, I'm measuring the about the center of this slot right here which is in this case going to be 1 and 1/2 inch, an inch and 1/2, an inch and 1/2. Yours might be different, yours might have holes in it in which case you want to measure up to the very center of your hole, transfer that measurement as I have already done on this piece of wood and that's an inch and a half and I've made an inch and a half line here and I want to give you a little tip about this, about making that line. Usually a pencil will have a conical tip on it but what we want to do with our pencil is take a little piece of sandpaper and put the pencil flat on the sandpaper and rub it back and forth like that so we make a chisel point. That's because a round point pencil will never quite fit right in here where you need to make your line. If it has conical point that point of the led is always just a little bit away so when we make this line with our chisel point pencil the pencil fits right there and makes a nice smooth line. We now have this line cut and so we know where the slot is going to go."