A Must Have Tool From Lee Vally

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A Must Have Tool From Lee Vally

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You MUST see Lee Vally/Veritas' latest invention. A pocket dovetail tool. Now you can dovetail anywhere.
Leave it to Veritas to bring the most innovative tools to the market!

http://www.leevalley.com/us/wood/page.aspx?p=67335
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Gene Howe wrote:You MUST see Lee Vally/Veritas' latest invention. A pocket dovetail tool. Now you can dovetail anywhere.
Leave it to Veritas to bring the most innovative tools to the market!

http://www.leevalley.com/us/wood/page.aspx?p=67335
That might be good to have if you never cut a dovetail.
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Stitch wrote:That might be good to have if you never cut a dovetail.
What date is it?:D
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I watched the video and some of the saw cuts were just short of miraclous. That saw cut almost 1/2 inch with two strokes.

I suspect there was some editting done. But none the less the tool is an interesting gimick and might be fum to play with. But at $60???

You all know how cheap I am. :eek:
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Ed in Tampa wrote:I watched the video and some of the saw cuts were just short of miraclous. That saw cut almost 1/2 inch with two strokes.

I suspect there was some editting done. But none the less the tool is an interesting gimick and might be fum to play with. But at $60???

You all know how cheap I am. :eek:
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Ed in Tampa wrote:I watched the video and some of the saw cuts were just short of miraclous. That saw cut almost 1/2 inch with two strokes.

I suspect there was some editting done. But none the less the tool is an interesting gimick and might be fum to play with. But at $60???

You all know how cheap I am. :eek:
That was a dirty trick on the part of Vertias and not something I expected. The cuts were pre-made and he pretended to be sawing. If a tool is that great, why resort to tricks? No hand saw will cut 3/4" deep in two strokes. And it also appeared to me that the tools did not lock in place when the folded out. Might be a problem.

Despite the unrealistic video, it looks like a neat tool. But I don't see myself needing to make dovetails on the go, so why not just stick with conventional tools? Although, $60 for an overgrown pocket knife isn't to unreasonable considering a jackknife will run more than a hundred.
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Perhaps today's date (April 1st) might have something to do with it?
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horologist wrote:Ed,
If you click on the add to shopping cart button you will find it's not as expensive as you think...

:D
Yep, it's definitely worth clicking the shopping cart button to see the real value.
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Great. Now all I need is my Pocket Mallet, Pocket Workbench and Pocket Vise!
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Gene Howe wrote:You MUST see Lee Vally/Veritas' latest invention. A pocket dovetail tool. Now you can dovetail anywhere.
Leave it to Veritas to bring the most innovative tools to the market!

http://www.leevalley.com/us/wood/page.aspx?p=67335
That's pretty funny!!
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