Celtic cross penturning bàndsaw cutting jig

[joiner.8]

I am going to be turning some slimline pens for the first time and would like to find out if any of you guys have made a simple jig for cutting the angles on the pen blanks accurately, on the band saw.

[Martin Lawrence]

  Plenty of videos on You Tube explaining the process.

 Cheers Martin.

[Philip Green]

This is the jig I made some years ago. It is a bit dusty as I have not used it for ages.

It is simply two bits of MDF, nailed and glued together. The guide is a bit of softwood, sized for the grove in my bandsaw.

The angle is not critical. What is critical is consistency which is what my jig gave me.

What can make the cross look out of shape are that the blank is not square and / or the hole is drilled off-centre.

The way I use the jig is to cut through the blank to a depth of about 90%, glue a bit of contrasting veneer into the slot, let the glue set, clean up the faces and repeat the process on the other faces of the blank.

[burywoodturners]

Make sure the infill is exactly the same thickness as the saw cut you made.
Ron