HAND PLANER JIG

I was making rings from very small laminated blocks, and found it a challenge to be able to shave the laminations down to a smaller and uniform thickness. This jig is just the ticket for that dilemma.

I wanted material that I thought would hold up well with the plane constantly sliding on the jig. I chose some PVC board. I like it because it has such a slick surface which will allow the plane to glide over it, without wearing it down. I used the router to make the rails.

Then I fit the rails in the dado that I cut in a straight 2x4.

I’ve seen jigs similar to this, but I wanted to make mine fully adjustable for the thickness. So I added some 8-32 T-nuts in the base for fine tuning the height of the platform.

I recessed the holes in the bottom, for the 8-32 screws.

On the floating platform, I epoxied some metal, where the screws would be lifting it.

I went ahead and cut some 1/8” hardboard spacers so that I wouldn’t have to run the screws in and out so much, for different thicknesses.

Here I am gluing it all together for a nice solid build that will keep the close tolerances on the rails.

This shot shows the leveling screws that can raise the platform the the desired height.

This will help me when working on small laminating projects.