Make Your Own Kitchen Worktop Jig

A diy wooden worktop is easy to do and a great kitchen idea.

Make your own kitchen worktop jig.

If you are doing your own kitchen try our budget worktop jig range for great value. Plywood is a 3 in. Learn how to make a diy wood countertop. The jig keeps your hands well away from the blade and you can rip as many pieces as you need without ever moving the fence.

Lightly clamp the jig so that it can be lined up with the cutter just grazing the struck pencil line checking at both ends of the jig to make sure it will follow the line perfectly. Creating a countertop requires some basic home improvement skills such as accurate measuring sawing gluing and sanding. I am so proud that i actually made this literally from shop bought. I show you how its done and all the tools needed to make your very own kitchen worktop.

Then hold the board against it and push the jig through. The chippy shop sell a wide range of worktop jigs and offer special deals for bulk purchases of most products. My approach was to make a jig of melamine faced chipboard cheap relatively easy to work and comes with its own notepad at least in white. Make a no fuss case using your tablesaw.

Narrower than the width of the desired rip to the end of a 1 6 as shown. Plywood thicknesses vary though so make certain your material thickness measures a true 3 4 or adjust your part dimensions to achieve the final cabinet width. You can choose between using flooring reclaimed wood or wooden boards for your countertop depending upon the look and availability of the wood. In the center of the 3 4 in.

In what now seems to be a past life i worked as an s e kitchen designer fitter. At the time i could not afford one of the few worktop jigs available as most came with a router i already had one. That s the guide strip upon which the edge of the base of the saw is going to ride. For professional and site use see our first quality worktop jig range.

Start by ripping two side pieces to the. For a base cabinet less than 4 wide you can cut all the parts except the back and toekick from one 3 4 4 8 sheet of plywood or mdf. Drop the router into the slot with the guide bush in position and plunge the cutter so that it touches the worktop surface. To make the jig attach a 5 in long strip of wood 1 16 in.

Once we reach the end of our horizontal cut we can reorient our saw to make the plumb cut using the short leg of the jig to guide the saw base.