Some of you may remember my minor injury when trying to set up my router box joint jig for my daughter's cabinet. I had made a table saw jig that was used in the past which worked OK for awhile, but over time the accuracy was lost. I invested in the Rockler router table box joint jig. Feeling I knew what to expect, I didn't bother to read all the warnings, resulting in a tearout in the wood an injury to one finger on my right hand that required a visit to the emergency room. With the TS jig I could take a piece of wood and make practice cuts either in the end grain or along the side grain. Not so with the router, and a warning was included in the instructions I failed to read. Box joints are normally cut in the end grain and the instructions clearly stated not to attempt cuts in the side grain because this could cause tearout and possible injury. So, I learned the hard way. I did take time to read the complete instructions later.  MY review of the Rockler jig would be, when used properly, the jig works ok, but a great improvement would have been to include T slots for the slide bars. I found I tended to tilt the bars out of the slots. T bars would prevent this.

Instructions? 

We don't need no stinking instructions.  ...  ...  ... 

Go, Snoop Dog!  Just get a drill and bore some holes in the instruction booklet.  LOL

 

Directions are nothing more than someone else's opinion on how to do something