Saw Jigs & Guides are fixtures and accessories designed to steer your cutting tool along a precise path, ensuring straight, repeatable and accurate cuts.
Key Characteristics:
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Rigid Guide Surfaces: Often made from aluminium extrusion, MDF or engineered plastics, providing a straight reference edge.
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Adjustable Stops & Fences: Built-in fences, clamps or stoppers let you set cut lengths, angles or offsets with consistency.
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Anti-Slip Undersides: Rubber feet or grippy pads prevent movement on the workpiece or saw table during cutting.
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Compatibility: Many rail-style guides fit onto circular saw soles, track saws or router bases; sled-type jigs mount on table saw surfaces.
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Modular Construction: Components such as extension wings, hold-down clamps or angle blocks can be added for specialised cuts (e.g. bevels, mitres, tapers).
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Easy Alignment: Machined edges, laser-etched scales or integrated measuring tapes help align your saw blade or bit exactly where you need it.
Common Uses:
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Crosscut Sleds on Table Saws: Holding stock square and sliding it cleanly through the blade for perfect 90° end cuts.
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Rip Guides for Circular Saws: Clamping a straightedge guide rail to boards to make splinter-free rip cuts.
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Mitre & Bevel Jigs: Securing work at fixed angles for repeatable mitres or bevels on table or bench saws.
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Tapering Jigs: Guiding stock through the blade to cut consistent tapers on legs or decorative mouldings.
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Circle-Cutting Guides: Allowing plunge-cut saws or routers to bore out perfect circles or arcs.
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Custom Fixtures: Creating bespoke jigs for joinery tasks—dovetails, box joints or angled dadoes—on band saws, jigsaws or routers.
