Dowel jig

[Furniture Restorer]

I use the Stanley 59 version, it only has provision for drilling a single dowel hole at a time and for my woodwork it works great, and because it only comes with Imperial bushes I had to learn to grind my own lip and spur drill bits, and make my own dowels to suit, but I think these guys are talking about a whole different ball game with their expected levels of accuracy!
Steve.

I have a Stanley 59 as well. it's good for getting a dowel into a tight space or splicing in a new section of broken chair or table leg. I can get everything to line up if the joint is so badly broken it won't glue back as is. Mine came with a full set of bushes (eight in all I think?) and most will accept a metric drill bit that's close enough in size. It's a nice little tool.

I also have two sets of Record 148 doweling jigs but find them so fiddly I usually resort to the Wodens. They're great for end or edge dowels.
They need a piece of sacrificial 2x1 for doweling into a face side. But this acts as a story stick after the first set of holes have been drilled.

They make joining mitres easy as well. Perfect alignment every time.

 

[Deaconspike]

We have a range of shelf pin jigs from £25 to £260 in either metric or imperial.

https://woodworkersworkshop.co.uk/search.php?search_query=shelf pin jig&section=product
Cheers

Peter

Thanks Peter - I'll check them out!

 

[HOJ]

I'm looking to drill equidistant dowel holes into parallel mdf sheets to support movable shelving.

Why not make your own jig.

I use a rectangular piece of 6mm ply, mark it out with the hole arrangement I need, set from the bottom and front of the carcase, run a 5mm bit through, offer it up to the cabinet side/s and use another 5mm bit, drilled through a block of wood to act as a depth stop, simples, and basically free.

 

[Deaconspike]

So I've found and am quite interested in this - Milescraft ShelfJig | Wood Workers Workshop

Does anyone have any experience of it?