Micro Jig DVC-538K2 MATCHFIT Dovetail Clamps

$45.00

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Style:MATCHFIT Dovetail Clamps

Rout a dovetail and clamp like never before.

MATCHFIT Dovetail Clamps by MICROJIG will revolutionize the way you work with wood.

The breakthrough dovetail clamp arm design gives you the freedom to create your own track grooves using a dovetail router bit to clamp virtually anywhere.

Now with a new look, better grip! Features new rubberized soft-grip handle for better hold when clamping your next project.

Compatible with any 14-degree 1/2" dovetail router bit. Simply make a dovetail groove and get the clamping pressure you need where you need it.

Exert versatile clamping pressure without interfering with the operation by containing the MATCHFIT Dovetail Clamp head arm within the dovetail groove. It expands creative freedom to build extension fences, tables, workspaces, and personalized track systems.

Create clamping tracks virtually anywhere by routing dovetail grooves.

These unique clamps will save you time and frustration in more ways than you can count. MATCHFIT Dovetail Clamps slide anywhere along the groove routed and leaves one surface of your work clear of obstructions. Use these clamps to create customizable clamping tables and for attaching table extensions, sub fences, stop blocks, hold downs, and more to your machinery and work tables. Easily create a new guide for your circular saw or router, new table saw or band saw fixtures and whatever power tool gear you’ve got to make.

Any machine-oriented woodshop revolves around creating and improving jigs. The MATCHFIT Dovetail Clamps offer an innovative approach of integrating adjustable clamping into just about any jig, securely and out of the way of blades and bits.

The options are limitless with MATCHFIT Dovetail Clamps. Imagine the array of uses in a hand-tool shop, too – a paring block for dovetailing, cauls for keeping wide glue-ups flat, a thick planing stop and joinery jigs to name just a few.

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Technical Details

Love these things; best thing since sliced bread.

I was torn between getting the Festool or the Micro-jig clamps but the Micro-jig definitely have a couple of big advantages over the Festool clamps. Since I own both I can confidently give the match fit clamps the nod. Both clamps are very similar in strength, price, and general clamping ability, but that's where the similarity ends. I was trying to use my miter saw to get an absolutely straight cut across a curved and rounded workpiece without success. I eventually decided to make a simple jig and try the same cut on the table saw. The matchfit system made the cut simple and repeatable. I just wish they came in an 8 or 12 pack with a price break. You can also remove and reverse the clamp head on the matchfit whereas the Festool is permanently attached. Also the new grips on the matchfit allow a more comfortable grip and less slippage when applying maximum force to the clamp.

This is a clamp!

It doesn't seem to matter what hobby you into, if it involves creating, assembling, gluing, putting disc brake pistons back into the caliper, or just a flashlight, sooner or later you're going to need a clamp. I've got drawers full of clamps, each seemingly for a different clamping job. While trying to think of what I wanted to say in this review, I got to thinking how many of these clamps I have could be replaced with just this one. The answer is pretty much all of them! Take the common "C" clamp. A fixed head and a screw type mechanical adjustment/clamping force part. Slide a wooden block on the top of this clamp and it's the same as a "C" clamp. Need a set of clamps to clamp the edge of a door in place for gluing? Route grooves into a board, lay the board where you need clamping power and slide these clamps into the grooves and tighten. Equal pressure over a long glue joint. If you need a clamp for something, and you think about it, you can probably think of a way to make these work for you. I've currently got four, and I have little doubt that I'll double that in the not too distant future. Need to hold a sacrificial face to your table saws rip fence? Yep, this'll do it!

Very good quality

I bought these to use for cutting beveled legs and jointing boards on the table saw. They are great quality and work for what i needed but the price is to high at $45.00. I could see these retailing at $30.00 maybe $35 but they are a great tool and very versatile .

Used on Festool MFT table

Works great in combo with Festool MFT table and saves you a bit of money compared to their clamps! These are high quality heavy duty clamps. I use them on my table for all my work with the Festool Domino.

Like Tony The Tiger says: THEY’RE GREAT !!!!

Worth the effort to prepare the work support for their use

Works perfectly

Holds work pieces in place with zero issues. No slipping or issues with clamps loosening.

A bit pricey but very handy.

These have so many uses that I decided to pay the price to have a set in my shop. I use them on my home-made taper jig and they work real well to hold down stock of any thickness without getting in the way. I had to buy a dovetail bit but I didn't buy the more expensive one from Micro Jig but opted to get the Freud bit and it worked fine.

Great for shop jigs and fixtures

Forget t-tracks and 1/4" or 5/16" bolts. This makes it very easy for any jig or shop fixture to have clamping built in. I used a Freud 1/2" 14 deg dovetail bit. Make sure that the bit height is 3/8" and the clamps work like a champ. So far I'm using them as a clamp for my benchtop router table, stop block for bandsaw and tablesaws. Its really a brilliant innovation. I cut one star because of the price. These need to be $25-$30 for more widespread adoption.