It's been rough adapting to this new routine. I call it The Internet Roulette, which sounds an awful lot like a game show. However, it feels a lot like one. We never know when it's coming back. What's more, since they did this whole reconversion to the currency, eliminating 6 zeros, the price has double in this service. It makes no sense. But as Yunott Diaz once said Latin America is the most sci-fi thing that exists. Nothing is right at ay given time, but all sorts of things going wrong in various degrees can go wrong and probably will.
Taking this away this fact that's ruining my plans on commenting more, I've taken time to get into making some more jigs for the workshop. As always, the idea behind these is to make some jobs easier.
My first one is a sanding block. I already have a wooden one, but I wanted a bigger and flatter one. I had the chance to get my big piece of glass cut into three pieces and took one, applied yellow glue, and glued to a piece of MDF. The results speak by themselves. Today, I used it to work on a mahogany sound board. I had to do it this way because there are knots in the wood and a hand plane would just damage the surface.
The second jig is something I was needing from some time. I've always had this problem cutting stuff at 90°. I thought I needed to practice a lot more, but it's impossible do it with any hand tool. We are humans after all. So, you either need a cutting guide or a miter box. Both these things ensure your cut stays in line to whatever degree you need it. My idea with this jig is to be able to cut fret slots in a perfect parallel line to each other.
Here I show some pictures of the process of making the jig. It's basically a piece from an old PC table that gut repurposed and I added 2 pieces of wood to the side. There's a 90° cut on this pieces and mark on the base. This way a saw goes into the slot and it stays straight while you cut. There's tons of ways of making this box. A cutting guide is smaller, but the only way to find the magnets needed to do it is to buy them abroad, a luxury I can afford at the moment.
I also added a picture of a little test for this box. It was a picture of a cut in a piece of wood after I had finished making adjustments to the jig.
Both jigs performed better than expected after their respective tests. It's a good thing I can keep myself busy around and still keep doing things to improve my crafts. But I do miss getting my binge sessions of woodworking videos.