Spent the afternoon making various jigs to help with making kumiko strips and panels.
Top left is a thin rip jig for the table saw, back fence sticks out 2mm as the strips I'm making are 3mm.
In the middle there are two 3d printed jigs. The left hand one is creating 45 degree cuts on the ends and trimming to length. The right one was an idea I was playing with to help keep cuts consistent. It has a 3mm gap every 10mm. Not sure if it will be useful or more of a pain we'll see.
Top right is a thicnkessing jig for my Japanese hand plane. Made out of MDF. My first attempt used a 2x4 and I cut the dado out on table saw, one blade kerf at a time. Then I realised 3mm is a standard measurement so stole some 3mm black MDF that I originally bought for the laser cutter. Made creating the jig soooo much easier.
And at the bottom is a cross cut jig for hand saws. The rear fence has a line scribed across it horizontally to act as a depth indicator. Seen other people cut the height of the rear fence down so that as soon as you cut deep enough to touch it you stop. Might give that ago see if it works out better.
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