Each Joint Genie kit is supplied with a hard copy instruction sheet.
Note: Some details now vary from the printed manual. e.g. all 12mm bars, the long 6mm and 8mm bars, Joint Genie Track and Joint Genie Bracket are no longer available but the graphics are of value and have been left in this data sheet for reference. Finger assemblies are interchangeable between kits and spare and additional fingers and set screws up to 90mm long allows Genie Jigs to be greatly extended in their reach and flexibility.
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THE FASTEST AND MOST VERSATILE JOINTING TOOLS IN THE WORLD
Ideal for any and all woodworkers as it makes the most skillful job in woodworking simple, fast & easy |
THE "CRAFTSMAN"THE ONLY JOINTING TOOL A WOODWORKER NEED EVER OWN OR USE
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| A Craftsman and a drill Ives anyone a perfect jointing capability mal Joint-Genie |
THE LONG BAR
This is used on its own for the jointing of wide boarding, panels or planking such as used in the construction of kitchen/bedroom units etc.
The Short Bar
This is used on its own for the jointing of framing or fine furniture making.
Together
This configuration is used for the jointing of medium and heavy weight furniture and joinery items using twin or multiple rows of dowels.
Bar Extension
The 6mm threaded holes in both bar ends enable a 6mm threaded rod to be inserted to increase tool length.
Right-Angle Face Driling
This configuration enables jointing at right angles to a work-piece edge, as required in building bookshelves etc. This configuration makes use of the 50mm set screw supplied.
Driling Parallel To An Edge
This fence configuration enables jointing to be inset and parallel to a work piece edge - This requires the use of 2 x M6 x 100mm bolts & wing nuts.
What people say about Joint Genie
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Brings engineering precision to woodwork
A "CRAFTSMAN" has a lifetime guarantee against failure during normal and proper use. The kit consists of two nickel plated hardened steel bars (one long, one short), two sets of stainless steel face/spacer tabs of various thickness, I slotted end tab, 3 knurled knobs and the bolts and washers etc as illustrated. Also contains 1 engineers drill, brass drill stop & hex key and a number of 4mm dia turbo wood screws. Each bar has two Identical working faces containing dowel drilling guide holes and countersunk screw fixing holes to allow fixing and drilling from both sides of the bar.
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FIGURE 1.
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 All Genie bars are designed to be secured to the work-piece by clamping on the face or edge tabs or by using 2 or more of the 4mm diameter turbo wood screws supplied, located in the countersunk holes in the bar. This screw fixing method is ideal when clamps are difficult or impossible to use, e.g. when jointing off existing structures, walls, floors or ceilings. NOTE: The resultant screw fixing holes are hidden in the finished Joint. This fixing method has shown itself to be the preferred choice of many experienced users as it is less fiddly and more versatile than clamping. |
Instruction For Use
Bear in mind spare and additional fingers and ready made set screws up to 90mm are available. This allows the Genie to have a greatly extended reach than as supplied.
As the drilling guide holes are designed for use from both sides of the bars perfectly aligned dowel jointing holes are easily and simply obtained in both halves of any joint (A & B) by drilling each half from the opposite side of the bar, using the same drilling guide holes. This Is illustrated in the simple edge to edge joint shown below.
By simply placing the bar between any two elements to be jointed and rotating the face and edge tabs on to each half in turn and drilling from the opposite side of the bar, using the same drilling guide holes, perfectly aligned holes are obtained in any joint with ease and speed. Further joints and this simple rule are illustrated below.
ADJUSTING FOR ANY THICKNESS AND WIDTH OF WORK PIECE
The range of face/spacer tabs supplied enable any thickness of material to be centrally drilled for its most effective jointing. These can be used as shown in various combinations to accommodate any thickness. (The illustrations below show the bars secured by turbo screws.)
Figure 2.
Shows the central drilling position for a work-piece which requires no spacer adjustment, its thickness being equal to that of the drilling guide bar.
Figure 3.
Shows the central drilling position for a work-piece needing Spacer adjustment, Its thickness being greater than that of the bar.
Drilling wide work-pieces. Rota e the end tab out of the way after the initial drilling (A), move the bar along and insert a suitable dowel or pin through the first hole in the guide bar into the last hole previously drilled (B), the bar is then accurately located for the further drilling - this horizontal indexing is repeated as needed for any width or length of joint (C).
Figure 4.
llustrates the set-up for drilling a double row of dowel holes in heavier work piece. (Horizontal indexing again used for wider pieces) Triple, or any number of dowel holes can be drilled in even heavier work pieces by vertical indexing as illustrated below. After drilling two rows (1), insert two dowels or pins through two guide holes in the top bar into the two corresponding holes of the lower row previously drilled (2) and the tool is located to drill a third row, etc etc (3).
THE FACE DRILLING OF WIDE WORKPIECES
As noted above the Bracket and Track are no longer available but the text and graphics below have been retained because they continue to have merit.
While this is achieved simply by running the bar along the edge of a straight piece of batten clamped to the face of the work-piece, It is not as easy in practice. Joint-Genie track ensures a perfectly straight row of dowel holes across the face of a wide work-piece - fixed by screws or by suitable adhesive to the sides of any standard guide clamp this arrangement provides square clamping and allows drilling to be undertaken flat on a table or bench.
Drawings 1A & 1B show a bar made ready for mounting in the track, slackening of the knurled knobs holding the face/ spacer tab assemblies allows the bolt heads to project for mounting in the track.
Drawing 2A & 2B show the set-up for face drilling a wide work-piece with a single row of dowel holes. Fig 2B shows the position after the first section has been drilled, the set-up for the second section is obtained by inserting a dowel or pin Into the first guide hole on the bar and into the last hole previously drilled. This indexing process Is repeated as often as required, the same Indexing process being used for the edge drilling of the other half of the joint.
THE JOINT-GENIE BRACKET
The Genie bracket has been designed to make Genie jointing even easier. It has been designed to take any Genie bar and provides for drilling at right angles to an edge or parallel to an edge as shown below.
The bracket is also designed to be used with both the 300 and 600mm Genie track for drilling wide workpieces.
The Genie bracket continues the mirror imaging principle of the Genie bars in that drilling left and right is simply a matter of rotating the tabs on the bracket as shown below.
Find here scans below of the Instruction Sheet supplied with the Craftsman 8mm - the Genie used in the demonstration video.
