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After years of watching my Good Buddy Norm Abram on the New Yankee Workshop rave about the Kreg Pocket Screw System, I was all set to get started with it, Kreg makes many versions of their pocket hole system tools and this Kreg K3 Master Pocket Hole system has recently come out. It works like a charm. Their least expensive kit is the Kreg MLJKIT Mini Kreg Jig Kit, which is about as basic as you can imagine, was not going to work for me. Kreg makes all kinds of machines to make pocket holes, from their DK5100 monster for almost seven grand, to the before mentioned Mini. This one is Just Right. The R3 comes in a cute little plastic box, which appears sturdy enough, and has all you really need for an occasional pocket hole. (A pocket hole is a way of drilling at an angle, a hole which allows special screws to tightly pull together two pieces of wood. It is a very efficient, fast and easy to use way of making face frames, or to basically join any two pieces of wood together.) This kit has the duel jig which lets you drill two holes, side-by-side (or you can just use one of the holes), and on the sides there are plastic slides which let you dial in the width of the board you will be drilling. The adjustable depth can be varied from 1/2" to 1 1/2". The special drill bit rests in the case and can be adjusted to the corresponding depth by loosening and tightening an adjustable collar with the provided allen wrench. It takes longer to explain it than to do it. After making the holes, you drill the special screws with the very long square drive. You can see the two pieces of wood drawn together. The only thing I need now is the Kreg RAC Angle Clamp. It is kinda a pain to clamp the jig to the wood being drilled with small clamps. The Angle Clamp (as demonstrated by my good buddy Norm) makes this part look very easy. This jig paid for itself in the first project that I used it on. Now I'll have to find other uses for it.