Mulwark Pocket Hole Jig Review and First Thoughts

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One of my 'regular guy' interests is woodworking. A few years ago, I saw a drill jig called a 'pocket hole' jig. It's used for drilling a 15-degree angled channel into a piece of wood where it meets an adjacent piece of wood. You then put a screw in through the channel to join the two pieces. This way, the screws are hidden from view, and you can make a theoretically stronger joint than if you simply put a screw in from the outside. There are also places you simply can't put a screw in due to the width of the wood you're using, and this is a perfect option for that.

Anyway, at the time, these kits were fairly expensive, coming in at about $70 if memory serves me correctly. I didn't do enough woodworking to justify that cost, so years went by before I got a chance to get one. I was contacted by Mulwark, a company that makes small, inexpensive tool and consumables kits, asking me if I'd be interested in looking at their kit. I said yes, so they sent me this kit to review.

I did a quick overview of the kit, and planned on ending it there, but I realized that I didn't want to put the thing away. I grabbed some scrap wood to play with it, and ended up building something useful - a square riser for a planter in my garden!

This kit prices in at around $30, and is available at Amazon here:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SGQ53V7

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