As I have just acquired some handle templates and some walnut, your hold down clamps for the jig is a great idea. I'm going to utilize it for my templates as I agree this is far superior to attaching the template to each individual piece no matter what you use.... Thanks for sharing a great idea.
I am not just watching these videos because Jeannie is cute. I am watching them because I love to see people win and Jeannie and Davis are doing just that! You are both killing it! Cheers!
Since you are running a business here are a couple of tips. Keep hardwood off cuts in cardboard boxes. These are easily sold on Craigslist, adding to your income and subtracting from the cost of handling and disposal. Same goes for sawdust. Gardeners and farmers use this as compost. Put it on Craigslist and someone will take it off your hands. Alternatively, heat the shop with a small sawdust stove. To put it in perspective last year my offcuts netted me 870.00.
Some wood species are toxic to gardens and livestock. Walnut shavings and sawdust will cause problems to horses’ hooves, for example. Please research which wood chips are safe for organic gardening too. Be safe.
Thanks for posting this (and the 1.0 version video)! You guys are my muse and inspiration for my own attempt at starting a table company; I've been following you from the beginning and jumped in a few months ago. I'm building three of this jig, each with a different handle, for my own boards. Like you, I find that taping templates to the stock and shaping is a huge time sink. I hope to see the same success that you are creating!
Three things. 1.if you're doing batches that are all the same width, I'd make the bases, where the toggle clamps are mounted, so they would be the exact width of the board. This would make squaring it easier 2. I would change the shape of your handle entirely. More of a rounded end with a narrower neck leading to the board 3. Build a jig for the drill press and stack boards there to drill two or three dowel holes at a time.
Love watching you progress and sharing your journey. One suggestion that I might have is that on the bandsaw you could use magnetic stops ( I recently started using MagSwitch) and I love mine, but it would act as a stop so that your workpiece would register against that and thus possibly optimizing your process.
Now, figure out how to stack two boards at a time for drilling pilot hole and bandsaw... and bam 22 boards in 1 1/2 hours (just guessing). in other words, the jig should hold two boards and then make so the jig with the boards fits into another jig on the drill press for the pilot hole (no tracing) and then slide the jig with the boards along a fence on the bandsaw for the two waste cuts. Then your only hand guided task is the routing! Hope this helps. P.S. You've inspired me to start a channel... Life Happens Let's Fix It.
I'm not sure how old you guys are but I'm thoroughly impressed with your business sense, attitude, maturity, video and audio production, and essentially everything! So so proud of you guys! Amazing!!
I love making. And now that I'm doing it full time I need to come up with ways to maximize my time. And things like this is exactly what I should be doing. Making 20 of something in 2 hours. That's insane! Makes me want to do charcuterie boards. LOL. But yeah... batching is the way to go. Thanks for sharing.
A little tip from a Older fella... The router bit takes a lot abuse end of the night pull the bit and soak them in blade and bit cleaner. Smoother cuts less burning.
Nice job, it's a huge improvement over version 1.0. It would be cool if your handle template consisted of 3 pieces, rather than the 2. 1) Lockdown sled. 2) Bandsaw cutting template (also keyed as you have it). 3) Routing template (also keyed as you have it). The difference would be that you could have multiple different handle styles that would all attach to the same lockdown sled. Then for each handle style, you'd just have 2 templates (1 for the bandsaw and 1 for the router). Or I guess you could just have a different jig for each handle style, but this would be a little more flexible to allow you to quickly design and implement a new handle style.
So I'm seeing this right after I watched your 1.0 video. For the hole drilling, it might be better to just build a positioning jig for the drill press, assuming the boards are the same width. Or really, just a fence set to the appropriate depth and a stop block to the proper width and you can just toss up a board, drill and move on. No need to measure and mark. Loving these vids.
Can you join the toggle clamps in a way that one push closes/opens all four at once, maybe join both on the one side perhaps? Love watching the journey
To help with placing your makers mark, place it on a jig that has the iron in a clamp style arm. I thinking like a drill press type system with the iron taking place of the chuck.. That way you don’t have to hold it by hand and with the proper placing of the support pieces each mark will be in the exact same place.
REALLY nice template! I bet it makes your process much more efficient. Didn’t think it’d be a factor of 3. Have you thought about making some others for different handle shapes?
Your videos helped me a lot when I first started selling. Now I can barely keep up with orders. If it keeps going this way I might have to quit my day job! I might steal this idea. I always just go freeform on my handles, but it would be good to be able to replicate some of them.
You guys should make square coasters with all those square cut offs you have. If you sliced them in half you could get 4 coasters from each Charcuterie board 20-25$ for a set of 4 matching coasters
Make a jig for the drill press that clamps/bolts to it so that the handle of the board is registered in the same place every time to increase the accuracy and the speed up the drilling of the hole.
Not sure if this was brought up or not in your past videos. But can you make a video on how do you deal with taxes at the end of the year. What do you do for health insurance. How do you guys put away money for retirement. I'm right on the edge of taking woodworking fulltime. Just want to know how u guys go about it. Would be helpful to me and I'm sure others. Not trying to ask for your private information. But just how u do it. Thanks
We set percentages of our income aside for those things. Look at your YEARLY expenses, then set aside a proportional amount of profits from every job. For example, we set aside 30% of income for taxes, 10% for health insurance/emergency fund, etc. If we need more money, then it's time to pick up the phone and make some sales!
I have a jig where I can cut 20 boards at one time with my tablesaw Flip it 90 degrees that the handle is on the downside and cut it like that as one stack. You just have to rotate it four times and you are done. I have a old industrial Felder tablesaw with a cutting depth of 200mm. But you can use your bandsaw an build an stack of 5 board or 6 at once. Than try a complete different router jig. The jig ist fix on the router itself like Stopblocks on your saw. I would assume that I need for 20 boards 15 minutes cutting and routing and boring. Boring is the last part an I have a jig an make 3 boards at once. I love your content an your improvement's so stay sharp an think twice.
Off set your handles right and left you will have less waste. If you put handles together then you only have one small piece of wast between the handles
Why are you using such a wide blade in your band saw? The narrower the blade the tighter radius you can cut. I normally have a 1/4 or 1/8 inch blade in my band saw. Unless you do a lot of resawing then you need a wider blade. Also, if your boards are all the same side why not make a jig to hold the boards at the same spot for drilling the handle rather then having to mark the spot for the hole on every board. Just some thoughts.
Give up on the straight router bits for working with patterns. Plus why use all this labor for cutting simple shapes. Use your cnc and this isn't necessary.
Haha for sure. As a woodworker I definitely find value in the content as well, but ya haha, Davis can hold the cam and put in tips 😂😂 jk .... but not really lol
Next improvement would be a fence jig for your drill press so you don't have to mark each one individually
Great idea!
I was thinking the same thing I build one for mine saves time
As I have just acquired some handle templates and some walnut, your hold down clamps for the jig is a great idea. I'm going to utilize it for my templates as I agree this is far superior to attaching the template to each individual piece no matter what you use.... Thanks for sharing a great idea.
I am not just watching these videos because Jeannie is cute. I am watching them because I love to see people win and Jeannie and Davis are doing just that! You are both killing it! Cheers!
Since you are running a business here are a couple of tips. Keep hardwood off cuts in cardboard boxes. These are easily sold on Craigslist, adding to your income and subtracting from the cost of handling and disposal. Same goes for sawdust. Gardeners and farmers use this as compost. Put it on Craigslist and someone will take it off your hands. Alternatively, heat the shop with a small sawdust stove. To put it in perspective last year my offcuts netted me 870.00.
Some wood species are toxic to gardens and livestock. Walnut shavings and sawdust will cause problems to horses’ hooves, for example. Please research which wood chips are safe for organic gardening too. Be safe.
Thanks for posting this (and the 1.0 version video)! You guys are my muse and inspiration for my own attempt at starting a table company; I've been following you from the beginning and jumped in a few months ago. I'm building three of this jig, each with a different handle, for my own boards. Like you, I find that taping templates to the stock and shaping is a huge time sink. I hope to see the same success that you are creating!
Three things.
1.if you're doing batches that are all the same width, I'd make the bases, where the toggle clamps are mounted, so they would be the exact width of the board. This would make squaring it easier
2. I would change the shape of your handle entirely. More of a rounded end with a narrower neck leading to the board
3. Build a jig for the drill press and stack boards there to drill two or three dowel holes at a time.
Love watching you progress and sharing your journey. One suggestion that I might have is that on the bandsaw you could use magnetic stops ( I recently started using MagSwitch) and I love mine, but it would act as a stop so that your workpiece would register against that and thus possibly optimizing your process.
Now, figure out how to stack two boards at a time for drilling pilot hole and bandsaw... and bam 22 boards in 1 1/2 hours (just guessing). in other words, the jig should hold two boards and then make so the jig with the boards fits into another jig on the drill press for the pilot hole (no tracing) and then slide the jig with the boards along a fence on the bandsaw for the two waste cuts. Then your only hand guided task is the routing! Hope this helps. P.S. You've inspired me to start a channel... Life Happens Let's Fix It.
I'm not sure how old you guys are but I'm thoroughly impressed with your business sense, attitude, maturity, video and audio production, and essentially everything! So so proud of you guys!
Amazing!!
Thanks Charles! We've had pretty great mentors and read plenty of business stories. I hope it all works!
Spindle sander....
I love making. And now that I'm doing it full time I need to come up with ways to maximize my time. And things like this is exactly what I should be doing. Making 20 of something in 2 hours. That's insane! Makes me want to do charcuterie boards. LOL. But yeah... batching is the way to go. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Angie! Always nice to hear from you
A little tip from a Older fella... The router bit takes a lot abuse end of the night pull the bit and soak them in blade and bit cleaner. Smoother cuts less burning.
also all your blades soak them when your not processing.
🙀 "shut up" LMAO
Nice job, it's a huge improvement over version 1.0.
It would be cool if your handle template consisted of 3 pieces, rather than the 2.
1) Lockdown sled.
2) Bandsaw cutting template (also keyed as you have it).
3) Routing template (also keyed as you have it).
The difference would be that you could have multiple different handle styles that would all attach to the same lockdown sled.
Then for each handle style, you'd just have 2 templates (1 for the bandsaw and 1 for the router).
Or I guess you could just have a different jig for each handle style, but this would be a little more flexible to allow you to quickly design and implement a new handle style.
So I'm seeing this right after I watched your 1.0 video. For the hole drilling, it might be better to just build a positioning jig for the drill press, assuming the boards are the same width. Or really, just a fence set to the appropriate depth and a stop block to the proper width and you can just toss up a board, drill and move on. No need to measure and mark. Loving these vids.
Love that you are using crowd sourcing for process improvement!
We don't need to reinvent any more wheels!
Can you join the toggle clamps in a way that one push closes/opens all four at once, maybe join both on the one side perhaps? Love watching the journey
To help with placing your makers mark, place it on a jig that has the iron in a clamp style arm. I thinking like a drill press type system with the iron taking place of the chuck.. That way you don’t have to hold it by hand and with the proper placing of the support pieces each mark will be in the exact same place.
REALLY nice template! I bet it makes your process much more efficient. Didn’t think it’d be a factor of 3. Have you thought about making some others for different handle shapes?
Very nice boards ,I was just curious on the size of those boards and also what GlowForge laser you have.
Your videos helped me a lot when I first started selling. Now I can barely keep up with orders. If it keeps going this way I might have to quit my day job! I might steal this idea. I always just go freeform on my handles, but it would be good to be able to replicate some of them.
That's amazing! Great work - keep going!!!!
Awesome jig! Do you have a link for the branding iron you guys use?
You guys should make square coasters with all those square cut offs you have. If you sliced them in half you could get 4 coasters from each Charcuterie board 20-25$ for a set of 4 matching coasters
Connect the toggle clamps on each side with a wooden bar then instead of four toggle clamps to push down you can clamp both sides at the same time.
This is a really great idea.
we loved this one guys!
Thanks! I wish we could be together and eat cheese off of one...
love your content guys! is that a new tattoo gennie?? its huge ! the last video you were wearing a long sleeve...
I think that having a bigger base and an adjustable fence on the drill press should make everything way easier and faster for this kind of work :)
Great job! So many cutting boards! Good luck to you!
Thanks!
Make a jig for the drill press that clamps/bolts to it so that the handle of the board is registered in the same place every time to increase the accuracy and the speed up the drilling of the hole.
Not sure if this was brought up or not in your past videos. But can you make a video on how do you deal with taxes at the end of the year. What do you do for health insurance. How do you guys put away money for retirement. I'm right on the edge of taking woodworking fulltime. Just want to know how u guys go about it. Would be helpful to me and I'm sure others. Not trying to ask for your private information. But just how u do it. Thanks
We set percentages of our income aside for those things. Look at your YEARLY expenses, then set aside a proportional amount of profits from every job. For example, we set aside 30% of income for taxes, 10% for health insurance/emergency fund, etc. If we need more money, then it's time to pick up the phone and make some sales!
@@jennieanddavis awesome. I hear many different things from many people. Figured I'd ask someone thats in woodworking. Thanks. Awesome content!
Great video keep up the great content 👍
I have a jig where I can cut 20 boards at one time with my tablesaw
Flip it 90 degrees that the handle is on the downside and cut it like that as one stack. You just have to rotate it four times and you are done.
I have a old industrial Felder tablesaw with a cutting depth of 200mm. But you can use your bandsaw an build an stack of 5 board or 6 at once.
Than try a complete different router jig.
The jig ist fix on the router itself like Stopblocks on your saw.
I would assume that I need for 20 boards 15 minutes cutting and routing and boring.
Boring is the last part an I have a jig an make 3 boards at once.
I love your content an your improvement's so stay sharp an think twice.
What size are they?
So what model lazer did you get great show buy the way awsome
Off set your handles right and left you will have less waste. If you put handles together then you only have one small piece of wast between the handles
We tried that and calculated that the extra 1/3 bf of lumber is cheaper than the time required to cut out the offset handles.
Where do you go to get your wood in Houston?
Using a good quality replicator can make the entire process faster and even more consistent.
Woo Hoo. Does that mean we get a commission for each sell? 😆
What are these for??
Why are you using such a wide blade in your band saw? The narrower the blade the tighter radius you can cut. I normally have a 1/4 or 1/8 inch blade in my band saw. Unless you do a lot of resawing then you need a wider blade. Also, if your boards are all the same side why not make a jig to hold the boards at the same spot for drilling the handle rather then having to mark the spot for the hole on every board. Just some thoughts.
You answered your own question: we do a lot of resawing.
Gotcha, then it's not worth changing.
What do you guys do with the handle off cuts?
Burn them. Not worth our time to build trinkets at this stage of our business.
@@jennieanddavis wish I lived closer to you, I’d take them off your hands. Trinkets is what I’m doing.
Give up on the straight router bits for working with patterns.
Plus why use all this labor for cutting simple shapes. Use your cnc and this isn't necessary.
Is Jennie anyone else’s celebrity crush?? 😂 Sorry Davis!
😂😂 Its why I watch.
LOL well I enjoy the content also, but you know.
Haha for sure. As a woodworker I definitely find value in the content as well, but ya haha, Davis can hold the cam and put in tips 😂😂 jk .... but not really lol
Woow
Now you need a jig for the handle hole on the drill press. Eliminate the measure and mark every one
Is it cliché to start a part time wood working business with charcuterie boards while i figure out what i really want to build?
Nope! Start with customer needs and follow their money!
U need to make a jig for ur drill press .... so u don't have to measure for the hole in the handle all the time
Great ideas, you need something to speed up the drilling.
May i have an autographed charcuterie board please?
One more jig on the drill press an you do it 30 min less
When will Davis start an OnlyFans?
Does anyone else watch this channel because Jennie is fine as hell
Show us your tattoo!
That's what the podcast is for!
noticed that you both now have tattoos.