Placing Carriage Bolts to Make a Box Joint Jig

Video Transcript

"Well good now we're ready to take our blank stock here that we've already routed out, set it on the table up against the miter guide and you want to check and lift down here along the edge of it and make sure that this is in full contact with the table, it has to be real flat. That looks pretty good. The next step is going to be to go ahead and put this hardware on. I'm using 1/8 inch carriage screws with some washers and a wing nut and that is because my particular miter guide for this saw is kind of limited back here so I'm going to be adjusting mine from the front and I'll show you that in a minute or two but if yours just has holes and you have enough room back here to maneuver you can use a wing nut and it is a little bit faster. We'll take this side, remember I made that little mark at 3 and 1/2 inches earlier and we'll set this up with that mark facing towards the blade and just stick the hardware in and put a nice, put the large washer on first, then the smaller washer and then the wing nut. Now like I said my miter guide is a little bit strange, I don't have a whole lot of room back here so I need to tilt this up just enough to get this wing nut started and pretty close to tight and we'll do that on both sides. And there we go, now we have the blank attached and we're ready to start making some measurements and some test cuts to make sure that we have 1/2 inch so. If you can see that, that's what it looks like when it's set up. Now I'm going to back up a little bit and make a couple of test cuts using our old jig so we're going to go ahead and do that now."