What is this ?

[Geoff Brooker]

 

[Geoff Brooker]

Can anyone tell me what this is please ? It came with a job lot of tools I just bought ?

 

[MikeG.]

It looks like a dovetail or box joint jig.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Some sort of dovetail or finger joint jig.

 

[MikeK]

This looks like a vintage Arcoy Dovetailer from the late 1950's.

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im195907PH-Arcoy.jpg

Here's a link to an online PDF of the manual.

https://pdfslide.tips/documents/arcoy-dovetailer.html

Here's a thread on UKW that references a possible source for an Arcoy manual. The link for the John Luby site isn't valid now.

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/arcoy-dovetailer.16219/

 

[Geoff Brooker]

Thanks v much ! I’ll take a look !