Rockler dovetail jig trials and tribulations

Part 1: Trials and tribulations with dovetails and box joints.

877 days ago by oscorner | 12 comments »

I bought the Rockler dovetail jig after seeing this video: http://www.rockler.com/video/video.cfm?ID=3. In the video it looks fairly staight forward and, well…easy. The guy said after only an hour he was spitting out beautiful dovetailed drawers. Well, I haven’t found it to be so simple. My jig is an older version than that shown in the video. This is the jig with the through dovetail template on it: I also have the half blind template and have found it somewhat easie...

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