Great concept, flawed execution
"I'm using this to build beaded face frames for a bathroom vanity and, soon, a full kitchen update. My first face frame for the vanity eventually came together, but there were a number of challenges that I think could be improved upon. First, the clamp is only somewhat useful. If you have any pieces that aren't at least 1. 5" tall, the clamp is worse than using it at all, as the "hand" on the clamp is too small and will ultimately cause the workpiece to pull back into the fence and tilt up, or the clamp will come lose with the vibration during cutting. I just stopped using the clamp and now just use my hand and I've been having a lot more success. Perhaps an even bigger issue, however, is the amount of slop in the fence stop. It is simply unacceptable that the stop should deflect so much. If you so happen to put even the slightest pressure of the workpiece into the stop, you will miscut chamfers on your rails, causing a poor fit. That's even with tightening down the stop. The design is just bad and the slop is impossible to remove. You'll eventually figure out that you need to just "kiss" the stop and pull back 1/32" for a perfect chamfer, but that is not acceptable with an accessory that costs this much. A smaller issue is the movement of the fence with the handle that not feel nice and smooth and the instructions were poor on how to properly line up the handle for smooth actuation. Finally, the instructions are extremely poor about how to compute proper offsets for cutting. A formula or better explanation of the math required to do more elaborate layouts would have been very helpful. My vanity face frame has six drawers and one big center door, and I had to spend quite a lot of time trying to figure out exactly where to move the stop mark to get proper distances between the drawers. At the end of the day the tool enables you to do something extremely useful, so I'm happy with it in that sense, but I'm frustrated mostly at the slop in the stop."
