Kreg Micro-Pocket Jig

Craig's micro pocket jig gives you the opportunity to get pocket holes punched in smaller scale stuff. So for a little bit of a comparison, let's start by looking at drill bits. This is the drill bit you're going to use normally in Craig's pocket hole jig, this is the drill bit that we're going to use now. So you can automatically see the diameter difference between the two. The benefit to this is a couple of different things. When you get to thinner stack, it's probably more beneficial to go with the smaller scale pocket hole. When you get to narrow stack, it's more beneficial. If you're working with brittle material, it's going to be better to do the smaller scale hole than the larger in order to prevent splitting. So here's how this whole thing works. The other thing that's cool about it is it is very, very modular. This is the jig, but I can also do that and that so you can use this in whatever configuration works for the project you're working on at the time, which means I can just gang two of these up. I can gang three of them up. I can use one of them as a standalone. Now, it's got the capability of accepting a clamp pad so that we can use it with the Craig clamp. If that doesn't work for your particular scenario, you can also screw the jig directly to your work. So that might be an application where you're not using the whole gang, you're only using one. So this is cool in a scenario where maybe you need to add a pocket hole to something that already exists. So being able to simply fasten this to your work without having to use a clamp could be beneficial in those scenarios. The other thing to pay attention to is this window right here, half inch, three quarter that is going to work with the stop underneath the jig and just the way you might think half inch stock get in that window, three quarter inch stock get in that window. Ok. So let us make the whole system come together here, gonna set this one also the three quarter. And let's go ahead and look at a scenario where gonna let those stops come up against the edge of our material. Then on the drill, Craig has been doing this for a while. There's a window right here and underneath that window, there's a dimension. So half three quarter use the window to position over the thickness of material that you're working with and lock the stop color. And again, if you're used to looking at pocket holes, you can see right away the scale of these, the diameter is smaller than a conventional pocket hole jig. So like I mentioned, one of the big benefits is going to be when you're working with narrow stock, working with that smaller diameter pocket hole is going to make this much less prone to splitting when you put everything together than it will with the conventional jig and thinner stock, half inch thick material instead of three quarter inch thick material, the jig is going to be a great choice for that application as well.