DELTA 34-183 Tenoning Jig
|
List Price: Category: Tools See more product details |
|---|
(Click here)
Tools and Hardware Reviews of DELTA 34-183 Tenoning Jig
Customer Review: Great tool
Summary: 5 Stars
Besides cutting tenions, this jig is great for cutting raised panels on a table saw. you can set the angle very acuratly and the jig holds the board very well to give you complet control and a feeling of safety.Customer Review: Heavy Duty Jig with Long Set-up time
Summary: 5 Stars
This jig is very well made with heavy castings and accurate machined surfaces. When it is adjusted and set up properly it stays that way. As with the other reviewers I will say that the directions leave something to be desired. Be patient. I am meticulous about setting up and keeping my equipment adjusted and this jig took me about two hours to assemble, set up, and fine tune after I cut a couple of sacrificial wood blocks with it. I would recommend that you get a micrometer or thickness gauge to accurately establish the vertical face of the jig parallel with the blade and miter slot on your saw. My only gripe about the jig is that the "stop" for presetting the vertical clamping face doesn't really work. Depending on how hard you push against the jig the face of the jig moves out of square. I noticed that the stop screw is wearing a "hole" in the paint and flexes in its mounting. This whole set-up is not confidence building so I just went out and bought a small machinist's square and check my workpiece after it is clamped in place. For the price, this addition to my tool shop was well worth the time savings and accuracy it provides for cutting tenons.Customer Review: I Guess I'll be the bad guy here
Summary: 1 Stars
I happily own a Delta jointer, planer, and band saw, but I have tried assembling this thing 3 times and it simply will not come to square.Well I tried a fourth time and managed to just get it to square, so that hurdle is passed. While this device will now cut tenons, its real (and fatal) flaw is that it has no setting to fix the relationship of its fence to your saw blade. As every woodworker knows, that relationship must be perfectly parallel. when the fence of this unit is loosened, it allows the fence to move not only back and forth, as it must to vary the depth-of-cut, , but to rotate around the axis of the locking screw by several degrees. This means that one must recheck and reset the fence to parallel for every single cut you make. That is just too fussy for my taste.
There is no way to adjust the existing fence runner or the miter slot runner on the 183. This device badly needs a mechanism to set and lock the fence's side to side orientation one time to the peculularities of your saw blade. And, that should be separate from the depth-of-cut lock.
The jig I made to bridge my P-66 fence (which is dead parallel to the blade) out of three pieces of scrap plywood and a clamp will continue to do yeoman service for making tenons.
If the 183 weren't so heavy it might make a doorstop. Anybody have a small boat without an anchor?
Customer Review: I got the "Lemon"
Summary: 5 Stars
I Got The "Lemon"Setup rating: ZERO
Performance rating: Five
I eagerly awaited the arrival of the jig and didn't anticipate any unusual problems other than cleaning off the trademark Delta shipping grease. Although I am patient, and tolerant of idiosyncracies, the problems I encountered far exceeded my typical resignation toward the mundane. I usually am not the guy who receives the "lemon", but I sure did this time.
This particular jig may have literally been submerged in grease and it took me nearly two hours to dig it out of every crack and corner.
The bottom of the jig (where it rides on the saw table) has geometric recesses which appear to have been machined to reduce overall weight. These machinings were never de-burred and the jig's first trip into the miter slot resulted in a lightly scratched table saw surface. An hour with the Dremel and a metal grinding attachment fixed the burrs on the base, but it still seems to ride roughly enough that I am not convinced that long-term use won't permanently damage the surface of my table saw.
Step A in the instructions went smoothly but step B brought my assembly to a grinding halt. Attempting to install the clamp assembly into the clamp arm I discovered that the threads in the clamp arm were never milled and I was turning the screw into a blank hole.
****
Three more hours of setup and modification to get it in working order and it's now ready to cut. Forty cents purchased a 3 1/2 inch bolt, nut, and washer to solve the missing thread problem, and using contact cement to attach a thin plastic sheet to the bottom of the jig solves the metal abrasion problem. Although being resourceful is perhaps the most enjoyable and fulfilling aspect of having a hobby, the amount of modification necessary to get this jig working was rather disproportionate compared to what one shoud expect from a company such as Delta.
*****
I have used the jig for cutting tenons and it works very well. The only tedious part is making repeated cuts with a piece of scrap to ensure your final cut fits perfectly in the mortise. Once that is done, all cuts are identical and will fit flawlessly.
Customer Review: I wanted to buy this jig 5 Stars
I placed this jig into my shopping cart, got up from my computer to go get my credit card off the table and pay for it and it went up almost 50.00 in a matter of about 5 It went from 48.99 to 99.99 in just that time. Oh, and by the way Amazon was nice enough to put a pop-up in the corner explaining to me that the price went up! I have spent over a 1,000 dollars at Amazon in the last 3 months and this is how they treat me! They are starting to act like Wal-Mart! God help us all!NOTE: Amazon e-mailed me today and ask me to call. I did but they still refused to make the price what it was and told me that they hope I will still shop with them. My local Lowes has thias same jig for 89.00, I guess Lowes will get my busines. Sorry Amazon.