Hi Lenny, I have had mine for a couple of years now and I am pretty sure I spent around a hundred bucks Canadian maybe a little more. It is well made, sturdy and has served be well. Usually cheap is cheap but expensive isn't necessarily more valuable.
The only limitation I have not liked is the width and this only one time. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lenny McHugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] cutting dove tails > Dale, > Thanks, I am not in a hurry. So far I have only made a few drawers and > used > a lock joint. I heard about a jig and talked to the man who designed it. > With this jig you clamped the stock and used it at your router table. He > thought about it and said that he knows that blindfolded he could make a > nice joint. I was interested until I heard the $300 + price. > He invited me to a wood show in Philadelphia where I could give it a test > run but for very limited use it is not worth that amount for me. I don't > remember the make. > MLCS has a half blind jig for about $50. I may soon take a ride down to > check it out. They are about 100 miles away. > Lenny > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dale Leavens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 3:18 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] cutting dove tails > > > Hi Lenny, > > I use a bench top jig. I am sorry I can't tell you the brand right off > hand > there are a few very similar, I think I have the manual up stairs so next > time I stump up there I'll have a look for it. > > This is not the sort which allows through dove tails or adjustable ones, I > am not sure the blind can use those satisfactorily, when I hear Norm use > his > on the New Yankee Workshop he speaks of registering his with a scale and > you > need both a dove tail bit and a straight bit to use them. You will know > them > because instructions are that you flip the comb over to cut the pins. Be > sure I don't know that we can't use those jigs but I haven't had one in my > hands to assess it. At over a hundred and fifty bucks I have been > reluctant > to buy one on spec. > > What I have then is a free-hand used jig. You mount it at the edge of a > work > bench so that the wall of a drawer say can be fitted against the front > edge > and hang below the edge of the bench. There is a cam lock clamp > arrangement > with a spring return which you have to adjust to the thickness of the wall > to clamp it vertically into place. You place the wall good side in against > the face of the jig than slide it to one or other edge of this clamp > depending on which wall you are cutting. There is a vertical stop to align > the edge of the wall at each edge of the jig to help aline and get it > vertical. > > There is a similar arrangement at the top of the jig. You slide the front > or > rear of the drawer horizontally under the top clamp and against a stop on > one or other side of the top surface until the end comes against the wall > already installed in the front clamp. Again it is front face down. You > make > your adjustments as necessary so that the top of the front edge is flush > with the inside face of the front member of the drawer. If both are snug > against the stops and the stops are accurately set the edges will be > offset > half an inch. > > There is a comb with slots at half inch intervals which lies over the > junction of the side wall and front face boards. > > You instal a collar into the base plate of your router and your dove tail > cutter then just gently follow the teeth of the comb with the collar in > the > router. The cutter cuts out the space between the tails on the side wall > and > the space between the pins on the back side of the front panel at the same > time. > > You reverse the top, that is the front member and slide it against the > opposite side stop and you place the other side member into the front > clamp > against the opposite side stop to make the dove tails for the other side > of > the drawer and of course a similar thing for the rear. > > I use short bits of duct tape to mark sides near one end so I don't get > them > mixed up. > > This sort of jig is only good for about 14 inches I think and I did > recently > have a project which wanted more so I changed to using a miter with > biscuits. I would have preferred the dove tail just for showing off. > > There are a couple of other adjustments, you need to cut to a fixed > distance > and there is a fence for that and cutting a few test pieces, the depth of > the cutter will determine how tight the joint will be, you don't want it > too > tight. > > You might like a load of scrap to reduce any risk of tear-out along the > edges although this is the inside face of the side so mostly hidden. > > I haven't used my big Triton router for this and don't think I would like > to > but my little Porter Cable does work well. I would really like to get my > hands on the fancier jig, you can set different spacing which can be > attractive or even practical where your joint isn't a multiple of half > inches. > > Hope this is helpful, I will find out the make I just don't recall and I > am > still very much limiting my trips up stairs for now. > > Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype DaleLeavens > Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lenny McHugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Handyman-Blind" <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 10:20 AM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] cutting dove tails > > >> Dale, >> A while back you mentioned that you were cutting dove tails. 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