Been making sawdust for 48 years and never heard of anything but jigs and I
didn't read a book to get this info.
Have never heard another woodworker call them anything else either
But when you really come down to it does it really matter what you call them
???
Doohickey sounds good, so does thingamafrig Geez I hope I haven't insulted
anyone here


"MHaseltine" wrote in message
...
Last Saturday I was at an auction and was looking at the tools which
happened
to be inside . Another person was also broswing. The owner had made a
number
of wodden jigs for his table saw ranging from a miter sled to a tennoning
jig.
Just to make conversation with the other person, I stated that the owner
and
been rather prolific and had a lot of jigs to go with the saw. The person
gave
me that knowing look and said "their fixtures - you need to be careful and
not
call fixtures jigs" Well, my response was I'm a bit of a newbie at his
(which
is true) but everything I have read and heard refers to these things as
jigs -
fixtures is a new way of naming these things"

Well, my silly question is, "Are these jigs or fixtures?"

Michael