How to Cut Through Dovetails with the Leigh D4R Pro Dovetail Jig

[@eli-fwc]

Thanks for being clear and concise and straight to the point

[@rockler]

🙌

[@heystarfish100]

I love using this jig. It’s really not complicated and once set up very accurate and repeatable for volume work. Doing one off’s is more time consuming but the satisfaction in the end is worthwhile. For doing regular sizes you work with keeping a test cut from prior work and careful recording of your setup makes duplication fairly easy. I would suggest buying the whole kit with the Leigh router bits and their dust control vacuum assortment. I find having a set of Rockler brass set up gauges, router guide bushing kit and a wheel marking gauge around makes set up very accurate. Not a necessity but if you already have them it’s a good usage. Once I started creating projects with this jig I want to dovetail everything. The Leigh operators manual is so complete and well written it’s like having a teacher at your side. I would highly recommend this product if you think it’s adaptable settings are necessary or an element of your design. I think only a woodworking craftsman who know joinery can tell these are machine cut in standard operations but the jig can be combined with hand tooling to make those very fine pins only available by hand cutting. No other jig has that capability that I know of. So far I’ve used this for blind dovetails and through dovetails. There is so much more to this jig’s capability that I haven’t had opportunity to explore but I’m prepared to learn as I go. Double dovetails, sliding dovetails and angled dovetails, box joints and Leigh’s custom patterns can all be done with this one jig. This is such a well made tool I can see it lasting lifetimes.

[@lostinadream1866]

That is a pretty sweet jig!!!!

[@tedfritsch3340]

Guess my Son's are getting a wine cabinet for next Christmas. Thanks

[@havenisse2009]

High quality tool. Good and clear explanation. It would have been good if you included some remarks on "front vs back" of the finished piece - your blue tape markers are showing. Basically "which way to insert my piece into the jig". This is especially important when routing both top and bottom, to avoid ruining a nice piece of wood.

[@simplehealthconcepts--path6951]

Very Helpful

[@rockler]

Glad it could help!

[@AdamKirbyMusic]

Lordy that's an expensive jig. Although if I needed to batch out tons of dovetails it looks like a sweet piece of kit.

[@blackstars3720]

Can you use leigh guides on festool routers?

[@rodsims5599]

I think they make guide bushes for most routers. Definitely for Festool.

[@rodsims5599]

You may need an adapter though, but they have them.

[@Daweisstebescheid]

What kind of wood is this, looks very nice 👌🤔

[@StuffWithKirby]

He said cherry at the beginning

[@Daweisstebescheid]

@@StuffWithKirby ahh, thanks 🙋‍♂️

[@HWCism]

Thank you.

[@mr.doolan248]

How do I make the pins to be mirrored images ?

[@rockler]

Hi Mr. Doolan, Please reach out to our product support team at 1-800-260-9663 or [e-mail]. They'll be able to assist you. Thank you

[@eballacharles0302]

I need 1 👍👌🤗

[@havenisse2009]

Not mentioned but maybe useful : available in metric, DR4M. With a few options, will set you back nearly 1000 £.

[@fusiongurudotcom8195]

you just need to sell a cheaper CNC router and be done with it!

[@jasonbailey9139]

Hmm..I guess my Jet 1/2 blind dovetailing jig is a lot easier to use than I thought. It has you cut pins and tails at the same time. That seems way easier than this.

[@rodsims5599]

I have a Leigh jig. Wouldn't swap it for anything else.