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12 in. Deluxe Dovetail Jig Combination Kit ($134)
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This kit has just about everything you need to get started. Be sure your router has a baseplate that accepts guide bushings and a centering bit to go with it. If not there are several universal plates you can buy.
Instead, build a pantorouter!! (Or buy one for like $1,000). I built mine 4 years ago and every single piece of joinery I do comes out perfect, and with very little effort.
The pantorouter build took me about 4 days (but I only have 1 arm/leg, AND I built it with a mobile cabinet base). Once you try one, you probably won't even do dovetails anymore since you'll have so many, better, more beautiful designs that you can do.
Currently, I'm making a table and doing a 5 way castle joint on legs (that are 8"x8" red oak) and a 7 pin m&t joint on mid supports. And it would've taken me just as long to make a dovetail design for a 24x36 box enclosure.
Seriously... it's not a tough build if you use Matthias Wendell's plans ($10). But I recommend not using the drawer slides, and instead using a SBR12 linear rail and 12LUU bearings. It gives me 11 square inches of depth to mortise.
Yeah.. it's made my life soooo much easier. I just wish I didn't built it so well. Because now I can't justify buying a newer aluminum version for $1,000 to my wife lol.
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