Doweling Jig for Narrow Stock?
Or, yet another doweling jig question.....there's quite a price range for doweling jigs, I see 70-ish all the way to 200-ish, and I really can't sort out the differences based on all the glossy brochures. My specific need is narrow stock: 1 1/2" wide, 3/4" thick, and a need to perfectly register and join two pieces (like a "T", not building panels). I see some of these have some sort of means to see the pencil registration mark thru the jig so you can align the holes drilled in the two separate mating surfaces, but which, in the very broad field of doweling jigs, allows the most precision/accuracy when moving it to the second piece to be drilled? I'm having a hard time justifying the 200$ jessem, but if the Jessem will consistently be close to perfect while the dowelit will be consistently off by more than a few thou, I'll spend it. No, a Domino is not for consideration. One idea I'm having is to use a thin mechanical pencil to draw the registration line to eliminate whatever slop I've recently learned (and experienced) is due to a fat pencil tip, would that help the 70$ jig compensate? I could really use any saved money to put into my "saving for a sheet of plywood" jar. I could be perfectly happy with nothing other than doing 2 3/8" holes