help on using dovetail jig

[trojan62]

hi
as in the pic, i have this dovetail jig, it used to belong to my dad and was bought from screwfix quite a few years ago.
what i want to ask, is how exactly do you use it and is it any good for dovetails.
ive had a go with it, but results were terrible to say the least.
theres no instructions for it and i was hopeing someone could walk me thru exactly what you have to do to get reasonable results.

thanks.

chris m..............

 

[Baldhead]

Chris you have a PM

Baldhead

 

[shed9]

There is an instruction manual on the screwfix site;

http://www.screwfix.com/p/12-dovetail-j ... tid=268178

Just click on the PDF download.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

It's not actually a dovetailer - it's an antique book press. Get it on evil bay quickly. :lol:

 

[dm65]

I've got one of them and gave up on it as I couldn't get consistency or precision with it - you get what you pay for I guess

I also created a rough spreadsheet for the calculations described in the manual ... somewhere ...

 

[shed9]

It's not actually a dovetailer - it's an antique book press. Get it on evil bay quickly. :lol:

I'm saying nothing :-$

 

[riclepp]

It's not actually a dovetailer - it's an antique book press. Get it on evil bay quickly. :lol:

ROFLMAO

 

[Racers]

I sold mine when I found it was easer to do them by hand.

The tightness of the fit is down to the projection of cutter and the position of the template controls how flush the joint ends up, the position of the template has twice the effect once on the pins and once on the tails.

Once you get it set for one thickness leave it and measure the height of your cutter.

Pete

 

[Vic Perrin]

It's not actually a dovetailer - it's an antique book press. Get it on evil bay quickly. :lol:

OMG Lets not go down that route again

Vic