Hi everyone, New to the site, and so far it seems great. I have built the dovetail jig from plans out of Woodsmith Magazine, which is quite likely the same one featured in Shopnotes Magazine mentioned in one of the earlier posts. It is relatively straight forward, and it does work well. Making the comb was a challenge because it has to be just right. An adjustable finger joint fixture makes this process alot easier. Once I had the finger joint jig dialed in, I made a second comb the same as the first. I then filed the round end in one of the fingers on one of the combs. clamped the two together with the fingers and slots lined up, and used the router table and a pattern bit to duplicate the rounded end on the other fingers. Rounding the ends of the fingers on the comb took less time that getting the finger joint jig dialed in. I downloaded my plans for both the adjustable finger joint jig, and the dovetail jig from
www.plansnow.com for about $5 each (Both work very well). I've used the Stots Dovetail Template Master also. It works well for through dovetails. The only pitfalls I see with either set-up, and this goes for any non-adjustable jig, is that your project plans need to be planned around the jig if you want to get half-fingers on both ends of the dovetail joint. I made a drawing for a through dovetail comb for the woodsmith Dovetail Jig, but have yet to make it. (It's based off the Stots Jig)