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As the era of build parties was over along came the jig. So for many do-it yourself type of people this was a great way to build your paperweights and for sometime the use of traditional jig made completing a paperweight time consuming and imprecise and even if carefully done it would still have many imperfections. So now if you decided on doing it yourself the problem was which jig should I get? Well now in the market is seems everyone has there own version of a jig but as far as i know there are only two companies that produce jigs built for the use of a router. Many will say using a router is dangerous but any tool that you will use will be dangerous if not taking caution and seemed that the router method was less expensive in the long run and less time consuming giving better results than traditional jigs.
So this will be my review on the 80% Arms Easy Jig
I will just post what my final results and findings about the jig is rather than going thought the process because there are several videos showing this and I think people are rather more interested in results.
The first two pictures will show jig and paperweight being installed.
the picture shows the close up of the final results I got using the jig, ( sorry for the bad picture i tried cropping to get a close up of the pocket). In the pictures it may look rough but it did come out clean but there are parts that are rough but that because i went to fast and the bits walked not paying attention.
Quality of the jig was great, strong,sturdy and able to reuse it many times over.
Pros: jig with use of simple tools router
Cons: would have liked my router plate to be anodized
End results: Pretty good
Overall thoughts: For the first use it did take me awhile but thats me it may vary for others. Now that I know the process I can do it alot quicker. I went with 80% arms because of the fact i can use a router which will give me a better end result than traditional jigs and also because it looks less complicated to use than other competing jig
I recommend them.
So this will be my review on the 80% Arms Easy Jig
I will just post what my final results and findings about the jig is rather than going thought the process because there are several videos showing this and I think people are rather more interested in results.
The first two pictures will show jig and paperweight being installed.
the picture shows the close up of the final results I got using the jig, ( sorry for the bad picture i tried cropping to get a close up of the pocket). In the pictures it may look rough but it did come out clean but there are parts that are rough but that because i went to fast and the bits walked not paying attention.
Quality of the jig was great, strong,sturdy and able to reuse it many times over.
Pros: jig with use of simple tools router
Cons: would have liked my router plate to be anodized
End results: Pretty good
Overall thoughts: For the first use it did take me awhile but thats me it may vary for others. Now that I know the process I can do it alot quicker. I went with 80% arms because of the fact i can use a router which will give me a better end result than traditional jigs and also because it looks less complicated to use than other competing jig
I recommend them.
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