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Default A new tool!

On 8/30/2014 6:43 PM, Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 17:06:52 -0500, Leon wrote:

My next jig was the Kreg shelf pin hole jig. I have drilled countless
holes with this tool too but it really is not built for production. The
jig allows you to drill about 6 holes and then you have re-index and
drill 5 more, repeat, repeat, repeat..... I spent as much time
repositioning the jig as drilling the holes. I did however like the
standard non spring loaded drill bit.


I just did 784 holes for some bookcases using the Kreg. Agreed, the
repositioning is a pain, but I was happy that none of the 28 shelves
rocked at all. Maybe disbelief is a better word than happy :-).



LOL. And even with perfect hole placement, you have to also factor in
the possibility of the shelf not being perfectly flat and or the shelf
pins not being perfectly square. I can't tell you how many times
replacing a shelf pin solved a rocking shelf. ;~)