Keller Dovetail System 135-2200 Journeyman DoveTail Jig ...

• Jig ideal for use with small or mid-sized projects
• Includes traditional and pin dovetail templates
• Can cut many different dovetails and joints
• Includes template and phenolic guides

Amazon.com Product Description:
The Keller Dovetail System Journeyman DoveTail Jig Template is ideal for small to mid-size projects. It has both traditional and pin dovetail templates, and can cut classic, variable-spaced, acute, obtuse, compound-angled, and curved dovetails, as well as box and knuckle joints. It comes with a phenolic guide, standard dovetail bit, straight bit, ball-bearing template guides, and fully illustrated operating instructions.

Keller Journeyman Model 2200 - Note from Manufacturer:
Our Model 2200 Keller Journeyman Dovetail System will cut through dovetails in stock 1" to 3/8" thicknesses, of unlimited width and length. The Model 2200, as all our models, comes complete with 2 carbide tipped industrial router bits, one each dovetail and straight bits, each with a ball bearing template guide mounted on the shank of the bit. No guide bushings are used or needed to operate the system.

Advertising:
"handles wood 1/8- to 3/4-inch thick". To do this you need to purchase additional router bits.

Arrogant Company:
The Keller 2200 has been around for a fairly long time. Long enough to write an instruction manual. This jig is nothing more than a big piece of plastic and a couple of cheap router bits. Its worth about 75 to 100 dollars, if that. Of course I knew that when I bought it. What really irks me is that the manual is completely useless. I could write a better manual in a day. Not only is it useless, but its not even for the Model 2200. It has a label stuck on to the title page covering the models the manual was actually written for. The instructions are for different models that have different dimensions. The pages appear to have been patched together from different sources. It is disorganized, incomplete and a waste of paper. This may be nothing important to most, but to people who take pride in their craft and who admire good workmanship, this is an affront. The people who sell the Keller are lazy, sloppy people who thumb their noses at their customers. I will never buy another Keller product!!

Not bad...:
This is a fairly simple system to use but takes some practice to get things right. The 1/4 inch bits that are compatible with the 2200 are #2243 and #2233 - not #1633 and #1643 which are combined w/ the 2200 on Amazon - according to the directions. Amazon apparently doesn't sell the proper bits for smaller dovetails for the 2200 system. I bot the 1643 and 1633 bits only to discover the bearing is significantly smaller than the larger bits rendering them useless with this system. They are on their way back to Amazon.