Anyone use Rockler's Complete Dovetail Jig?

[durango dude]

Rockler has a sale on the Complete Dovetail Jig (with vacuum attachment),
and I'm deliberating on what to do with some extra birthday money.

I can't really afford Leigh or PC. This looks like a reasonably good package, at a reasonable price.

[akronee]

I'm thinking about that jig too, right price, plus does both through and half blind dovetails.

[Relative]

Got the jig about 2 years ago. Found that I no longer use the vacuum attachment because I didn't like it blocking the visibility of the bit as I traveled it through its paces. The additional templates available make this a decent choice.

Mike

[cwsmith]

Several months ago, I got the Harbor Freight dovetail jig, which is only $30.

It is a very similar design, albeit without the vacuum attachment, bits, etc. and it doesn't come with a comb that provides for thru-dovetails. (It just does half-blind ones.) I posted a review of this at the time, with pictures, as I recall.

Since then, I've seen what appears to be "combs" offered from other suppliers that might well fit the HF jig. (MLCS, Grizzly, etc.) I haven't gone after any of these yet, but intend to do so in the not-to-distant future.

(I'm new to using a dovetail jig of any kind (or dovetails for that matter); but it IS the template or "comb" that makes the thru-dovetail possible on this kind of jig, isn't it?)

For what it's worth,

CWS