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A Guide For Smaller Pocket Holes

Friday, July 17th, 2009

With Kreg’s new Micro Pocket Drill Guide, you can fit two pocket holes on a board as little as 1″ wide and 1/2″ thick. The pluggable holes it creates are 25% smaller than standard pocket holes, allowing you to use shorter 3/4″ pan head screws.

If you own a Kreg Jig or Kreg Jig Master system, the Micro Pocket Drill Guide is fully compatible. They color the jig black so you can quickly differentiate it from the standard blue guides.

Included with the Micro Pocket Drill Guide are the 19/64″ Micro Pocket Drill Bit, Micro Pocket Depth Collar, and a few of the smaller pocket screws to get started. The kit usually retails for $50, but right now the only place we can find selling it is Highland Woodworking — they are offering it for $45 plus $9 shipping.

Micro Pocket Drill Guide [Kreg]
Micro Pocket Drill Guide [Highland Woodworking]

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Dealmonger: Mini Kreg Jig Kit $19

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Coastal Tool is selling this Mini Kreg Jig Kit for $19.50.  It can be used in tight spaces and at any angle for pocket hole frame construction.

Mini Kreg Jig Kit [Coastal Tool]
Street Pricing [Google]
Via Amazon [What’s This?]

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Is This Quick-Change A Scam?

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Recently Kreg introduced this quick-change bit set for use with its pocket screw jigs. Personally I’ve never understood why these quick-change kits are so popular, especially with key-less chucks becoming so commonplace, but if you’re a fan, now you can quickly switch between drilling pocket holes to screwing boards together.

Kreg gives both the drill bit and the driver 3/8″ hex shanks that snap into their quick-change chuck.  One supposed advantage of the hex-shanked drill bit is that it won’t slip like a round-shanked bit can — but is slippage really a problem in this size bit with modern chucks?

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Protect Your Miters

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Since jamming a crisply mitered end of a board into a stop might damage it,  Kreg designed their “Perfect Miter” stop attachment to properly support and protect a mitered end that’s placed against it.

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Kreg Klamp Table

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Kreg has created one of the leading systems for pocket joinery, and the Kreg Klamp table provides an assembly area specially designed for that purpose.  Klamp Blocks slide along the rails on two sides of the table and provide stops to rest your project against, and the Kreg Klamps keep your project resting against the blocks and hold joints in place while you assemble them.

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Kreg Master System

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

The Kreg Jig Master System is the “fully loaded” version of the Kreg Joinery System, which helps you screw together butt joints. You drill and countersink your screw holes using the jig — then hold the pieces together with the clamping system as you join them with the screws.

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Kreg Silently Rolling Out Soft-Grip Clamps

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Kreg isn’t making a big production about changing the grips on the clamps in their pocket hole tool line, but you can pre-order the improved clamps to be shipped this week from Woodcraft and next week from McFeely’s.

Except for their new corner clamps, Kreg is adding comfort grips to all the clamps in their pocket hole tool line — that includes their bench clamps, right-angle clamps, and face clamps.  Since there’s no press release, we scraped this information together from other sources, and we haven’t run across the reason for the upgrade.  Is it a ploy to further differentiate their products, or are they doing it in response to customer feedback?

It looks like the new clamps will be priced similarly to the older versions, but we found a few cases, like the right-angle clamp, where they bumped the retail price up a few dollars.

Pocket Hole Tools [Kreg]
New Kreg Clamps [McFeely's]
New Kreg Face Clamps [Woodcraft]

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Kreg’s New Corner Clamp

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Kreg’s rolling out a new self-squaring corner clamp this month to complement their pocket hole tool lineup.  They designed their new clamp to secure right-angle joints squarely before screwing them together.

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Kreg’s New Precision Router Accessories

Monday, October 1st, 2007

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Kreg, best known for their pocket hole systems and easy to use jigs, is looking to make a name for themselves once again. Disengage your routers and brace yourselves – Kreg’s new precision router accesories are scheduled for an October 1st launch.

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Pocket Hole Joinery Made Easy

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
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When you want to join one piece of wood to another at a shallow angle, what you need is a pocket hole joint.  They’re strong, and if you’ve got the right jig — like the K3 from Kreg — they’re simple to construct.  While there are lots of pocket hole jigs on the market, we like the K3 because it’s small and portable and because you can drill up to three holes without repositioning it.

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Finds: Kreg R3 Jig

Monday, November 27th, 2006
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When it comes to DIY woodwork the best “tricks” are the ones that save you time and get the job done right.  The R3 jig from Kreg is a pocket hole jig that clamps on to provide a sure fire way to get furniture-quality angled holes every time. 

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Finds: KREG Universal Bench Klamp

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
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Holding it down — that’s half the battle when it comes to woodworking.  (”Knowing” is the other half, right?)  Just keep it still.  Think of the KREG Universal Bench Klamp as a pair of adjustable locking pliers mounted to the workbench.  This idea is that the system allows you to apply an incredible amount of pressure to the joint line.

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