My POS is a little shelf pin drilling jig called the "gizmo 32" (
http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=4376 ) It is a small jig
with a fence and base that had two guide pins and two drill bits. In
theory, the jig was chucked into a drill and drilled two shelf pin holes at
a time, Then the jig was moved until the guide pin engaged in one of the
holes and the process repeated. Although a good idea, the guide pins are
not tight in the holes drilled, therefore, the hole spacing can vary. Dummy
me, thinking this thing was a great invention, went right into drilling
holes for the shelf on a finished ambrosia maple case with out trying it out
on a practice piece first and the holes on either side of the case ended up
3/8" off after drilling about 20" worth of holes. Even after practicing on
some scrap after the fact, i wasn't able to make the holes line up any
better than 1/4". The damn thing came in a plain box with NO instructions
from Woodcraft, and it will be returning there shortly. The thing has
potential to be a good jig, but needs MUCH more refinement to be
ccurate. --dave


"Mark Jerde" wrote in message
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foggytown wrote:
And now in a burst of refreshing honesty we're all going to admit to
the most useless, waste-of-money, unnecessary, white elephant, "why
the hell did I ever buy that" tool in our arsenal.

I have 4 nice routers, all 1/2" & 1/4", but all 4 different! DW 621, PC
plunge, DW fixed base, and PC D-handle.

I wish I wish I wish I wish I'd have been smart enough to have at least
two
of the routers the same, so the jigs would be interchangeable and fence
settings the same etc.

Sometimes I'd be willing to trade 3 routers for 2 more DW 621's. ;-)

-- Mark