Re: Where to buy pocket hole jig and drill bit?

TImber, werent you able to find locally available screws for pocket holes?

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I found screws I can use for the pocket holes, but not the same as Kreg's... I just glue, use kreg screws, and once dried I replace them with the local screws... works fine with me...

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the starter kreg screws that came with my K4 are so precious i made the same route replacing them with locall available gypsum screws when the glue has dried up.

square drive screws cannot be found locally...what about To Suy? of course they have substitutes but what about their advert "made to order" screws? can they really manufacture square drive self tapping screws?fine and coarse threaded? cguro pag maramihan....

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finally got mine.

TImber, werent you able to find locally available screws for pocket holes?

wow. the dvd manual is awesome

hello!

where'd you get your jig sir? how much?

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got mine from the states. Balikbayan box 🙂

139$ i got the most expensive one na.

Thanks Timber, i will probably do that too

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did a shelf today using kreg jig

used course threaded screws straight off the bat. worked well 🙂 rough shelving lang naman for the work shop

this is definitely worth 6500 pesos

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i got mine kreg K4 from Lowe's at 99USD just last October 2009.

it got so expensive nowadays?

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Let me show you what i made today. Wife asked for a new entertainment center for our decade old tv. She requested to make it be bigger this time coz baka daw next year dumating na ang minimithing flat screen. The project in mind will require alot of joinery but im to lazy to do mortise and tenon this time, so pocket hole jig is now a necessity. And since Woodmach was a failure and a jig wasnt available locally, i made my own. Here are the pics:

Re: Where to buy pocket hole jig and drill bit?

The jig is made of very hard wood that the holes remain ok after several output.

and heres one of the finished frame

I used 2" gypsum screw and a tape as dril stop. The jig is very simple but worked perfectly for my need.

Comments are welcome. Thanks

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very nice and very simple sir armand,baka puede i post mo sir yung details in constructing your jig.planning to buy that pocket hole jig,pero kung napaka-effective na ng ginawa mo,why buy the kreg?baka for sale yan?hehehe...

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with a shop made pocket hole jig like that, what you only need now is the self tapping screw by kreg...the self tapping screws are a plus because it pulls the wood together as you tighten it and squeezes the glue...

yes we wanna see the inside of the jig...a closer view like jonathan said..did you change bits (for the step drilling?)

cheers!

Re: Where to buy pocket hole jig and drill bit?

mr. armand,

since kreg pocket hole jigs are not available(read: expensive), pwede ko bang kopyahin yang jig mo? thanks sir!

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When I was attaching the screws I can see the glue being squeezed out, sorry I really didnt have the idea how the original Kreg pocket scews looked like, but after googling this morning they look like ordinary wood screws with half thread lang, try ko this evening ordinary wood screw.

I used only one drill bit (brad point) with a tape as drill stop. Very simple lang talaga but the most important it bore the holes i wanted.

I'll take more pictures of it this evening for the sake of curiousity hehe..

I used my handrill to drill holes on the jig made out from a 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 x 2 rectangular piece of wood. Drilled two holes parallel to the length then sliced it diagonally. The result is a two sets of pocket hole jig (reserba ang isa hehe). Then i added a stopper so that you can you can clamp the jig on your piece.

Cost of jig: P 0.00 🙂

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mr. armand,

since kreg pocket hole jigs are not available(read: expensive), pwede ko bang kopyahin yang jig mo? thanks sir!

here's the coreldraw sketch of the jig..just remember this is just a shopmade jig so accuracy is not guaranteed. Angle can be altered in many ways according to the size of your piece of work.

here's the link to that sketch
http://picasaweb.google.com/armand.pedroza/PocketHoleJig#5526580938353593778

Re: Where to buy pocket hole jig and drill bit?

Self-tapping screws are convenient but not strictly necessary. Without them, you just have to drill a pilot hole in the 'other' piece (using some kind of jig or angle guide). What pulls the pieces together is the screw shaft being free to slide through the shaft hole in the first piece, thus rotate freely, as opposed to its threads biting into the shaft hole, which would prevent rotation once the screw head is seated.

One possibility for self-tapping screws might be Tek screws, though haven't tried that. I just drill pilot holes.

Do you drill two concentric holes in the first piece, one for screw shaft and a larger one for screw head? It looks like you have only one jig instead of two. If so, which hole (shaft or head) is it sized for, and how do you do the other hole?