Does a woodrat do dovetails as well as a Leigh jig

[Newbie_Neil]

Hi Alf

Both the rat and leigh are over priced for what you get in my opinion (particularly the rat with its 'joke' price tag)

I'm inclined to think that says rather more about you than the 'Rat, Tony.

Cheers, Alf

Tony has to save money somewhere, how else would he amass all those planes?

Cheers
Neil

 

[Anonymous]

Woody Alan

Not sure if you have already noticed but if you look at the links on the Woodrat site you will find one of their dealers sells it for about £70 cheaper than all the rest they charge £15 P & P but it's still cheaper. Pay for your plunge bars at least. I recently bought one I went to Leeds in person and they were really helpful.

 

[engineer one]

interesting, having chatted again with the rat guys at ally pally, i think the problem for the rat is it was originally sold as a dovetail machine, whilst in fact it is so much more.

i wonder whether many of those who dislike the rat do not "get it"
with the leigh, you can see what you are getting, but for those kind of bucks, you have a very inflexible machine. a number of people have said to me in the past that they wished they had bought a rat first before a router table since it was more flexible, and also of course, you are looking at a protected router bit, not one sticking up through a table that might catch you out.

i think the rat is pretty easy to set up for a dovetail, but it does require a few seconds out of the box to get you used to it.

but lets be honest guys we spend a bunch of time on our computers now, but if you don't use a programme for a few weeks or months, you forget all
the things you have learnt. seems to me so far you do the same with a rat.

for my two pence, i think the leigh has advantages, but the rat offers more flexibility.

paul :wink:

 

[AndyBoyd]

Of course it does and loads more (as you can tell I'm a happy ratter)