Tom Hammond
01-16-2011, 6:31 PM
I taken to using sliding dovetails for mounting aprons on table legs, and have gotten away from pocket screws for this particular joint. I have a knockoff dovetail jig that I've used in the past... what I do is mount the jig backward on the top of the unit and use the straight edge instead of the dovetail slots to run my router along. With 20-thread per inch (50 1000ths per rotation) screws for the positioning of the jig in relation to the edge of the board, I'm able to guage the adjustment of the jig fairly accurately by adjusting the screws by controlled angles. But, it's just so much easier to use my Kreg tabletop router table. However, I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on how to get equally accurate adjustments of the router table fence as I can on the dovetail jig. Actually... I'd like even more accuracy. I've found that tight joints, a touch of sandpaper and dryfitting the joints a number of times using an ol' rubber mallet makes great joints... but if I could get a bit more accuracy on the routing I could get away with doing a less handwork on each joint. THANKS.