?new? CMT Dovetail Jig

It looks like any one of about a dozen clones that are sold by everyone including the local grocery store.. ;~)

LOL, Our local grocery store has a deal going right now as a matter of fact. If you spend over a hundred dollars in groceries for four weeks in a row, you'll get a coupon good for a free jig and a turkey.

To stay on topic, I have the woodcraft version of this jig. I believe it cost forty dollars (USD) about a year ago on sale and included the bit. It's OK especially when I ditched the their manual and downloaded the shop fox manual for the version of the exact same jig. They at least took the time to write a decent manual.

I have the Harbor Freight version. The Shop Fox manual does not work for it; the dimensions are different and incorrect. Just a warning to anyone dumb enough to buy a Harbor Freight jig. Apparently there is junk and there is junk.

Looks just like my Jet dovetail jig. Paid about $40-$50 for mine. Works fine, but it does have limitations. Greg

"toller" wrote in news:d6Tkd.3234$3G1.1266 @news02.roc.ny:

Oddly enough, I've had the HF jig sitting in a box since last spring and literally unpacked it for the first time yesterday. I piddled with it for about 30 minutes setting it up, and on the third try made a pretty good dovetail with 3/4" x 4" pine. The directions that came with it were indeed crap (and the photos comically bad) but I adapted the Woodcraft instructions with some tweaking. I think I paid