HF Dovetail Jig $20 N Ral CL

[Splint Eastwood]

Fresh off CL not mine:

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/tls/2132468749.html

Central Machinery Dovetail Fixture - $20 (North Raleigh)

Date: 2010-12-28, 10:27AM EST
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Central Machinery Dovetail Fixture. Brand new. Never used.

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[manfre]

I had one of those for a few days. The instructions were not very good and required a lot of scrap wood to figure out how to use it.

 

[Splint Eastwood]

I had one of those for a few days. The instructions were not very good and required a lot of scrap wood to figure out how to use it.

Yeah, kinda tricky if unfamiliar with DT's, but alot of members swear by them!

 

[manfre]

Yeah, kinda tricky if unfamiliar with DT's, but alot of members swear by them!

Dovetails are nice. This jig was not. I rarely need to do large batches of dovetails so the set up costs more time and scrap than using a protractor, bandsaw and chisel. Better quality jigs may reduce the trial and error approach of getting everything lined up properly. I returned the jig because I found that it didn't speed up my jointing. Anyone with the space to leave this set up all the time would probably find it to be very quick and helpful.

 

[Splint Eastwood]

Anyone with a positive review?

Please chime in.

thanks

 

[Joe Scharle]

Matt, I bought one of those 6-8 years ago for the SAME price! Great little jig for drawers. I leave it setup for 1 router. BTW, Woodhaven wrote an excellent manual for these and later Grizzly put it on their website when they started selling them.

If you can't find the manual, I have a copy on one of these computers. The most important page is the chart for setting the back fence. Average WWr can be cutting DTs in 30 minutes or less. I like it more (may be the price differential, though) than the PC4210.