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Finally,
an affordable dust collector for your Rockler dovetail jig! You don’t
have to spend hundreds of dollars to get dust collection with a dovetail jig.
Our revolutionary new dust collector eliminates virtually all the dust
created when cutting dovetails. It easily attaches to Rockler’s dovetail jigs
(both new and old!) and a shop vacuum or dust collection system to
provide you with a clean cutting area and safe working conditions.
- Easily attaches to Rockler’s dovetail jigs
- Built-in 2-1/4" port fits most shop vac hoses (not included).
- Sliding baffle directs the dust collection to where the dovetails are being cut.
- Sweep brush adjusts to provide a complete seal for stock thicknesses of 1/2" up to 1-1/8".
- Contains the dust while allowing the bit to travel through without damage.
- Two extra long 4" knob posts make adding your dust collector shroud easy.
- Built-in 2-1/4" port fits most shop vac hoses (not included).
- For older Rockler dovetail jigs with 4-screw side stops, conversion kit #25174 is required. (Sold out and no longer available).
- Patent pending.
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Customer Reviews and Photos for:
Rockler Dust Collector for Rockler Dovetail Jigs
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Average Rating:
3.9
(22 customer reviews)
$47.99
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1) Submitted by
D Wilt, from Etiwanda, CA
on 1/29/2013
Customer Rating: 
What a great product. Easy to install and use. No more face full of chips. Almost all of the chips were sucked into the shop-vac.
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2) Submitted by
BJ Land, from Port Arthur, TEXAS
on 3/12/2011
Customer Rating:
Very simple to install, and what a difference. No chips in the face, no chips to clean up. All the chips and sawdust go into the dust vac system hopper. Wish this had been available years earlier. This is one of the best ideas for woodworking since the router was invented. Great product.
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3) Submitted by
John Kirschner, from Watkinsville , GA
on 10/11/2009
Customer Rating:
Works well at keeping the area clean but is a problem when installed and trying to set up the jig...need to remove in order to mark the depth of cut when doing through dovetails...I am going to slot the dust collector so I can remove it without have to totally unscrew the clamp.
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4) Submitted by
Don, from Houston, TX
on 6/20/2009
Customer Rating:
I received my dovetail jig for dust control works perfect. I also went to our local store and found this shield was on sale, but I finished the job of cabinet drawers. Make sure the bit you have retracts into bushing so dovetails fit.
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5) Submitted by
Dohnn Wood, from Anchorage , ALASKA
on 1/4/2009
Customer Rating:
I bought the dovetail jig first, and would have had to return it as the time saved over hand cutting was more than used in time spent trying to clean up the dust. With the dust collector this tool will be a welcome addition for cabinet drawers. thanks
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6) Submitted by
Dick Fornasiere, from Menomonie, WI
on 12/9/2008
Customer Rating:
This product does what it says it will do. Saves alot of clean up time and does not hinder the operation of the jig or router. Worth the price.
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7) Submitted by
SeaWolf's Home Workshop Blog, from Jacksonville , FL
on 10/19/2008
Customer Rating:
This dust collector catches 98% of all the chips and used with a vacuum modified router 99.9% of all the saw dust. It was a real pleasure not to be angle deep in saw dust. The collector does add a little difficulty in inserting the "tail" board and obscures the router bit, but the gain is well worth it. It is really a must if decided to buy the jig.
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8) Submitted by
Mike Silva, from Post Falls, ID
on 1/26/2008
Customer Rating:
I "hate" to vacuum wood chips and sawdust from my shop floor after making dovetail cuts, so I purchased your dovetail jig dust collector, (with some skepticism)! After a little practice and setup cuts, my results were great. Considering the complexity of the jig and how it sprays chips in all directions, putting a stop to that mess was priority 1 for me. Your jig dust collector solved all of my problems, I love it!
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9) Submitted by
Marc Paulson, from Brooklyn Center, MN
on 11/5/2007
Customer Rating:
I bought this with my jig and did not attach it until after a couple uses, it is simple to attach and works very well. I would recommend it to any one who buys the jig and who appreciates less cleanup time.
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10) Submitted by
Robert, from Madison, WI
on 10/2/2007
Customer Rating:
I highly recommend this dovetail jig attachment. While it makes it slightly more tricky to get the workpiece inserted and adjusted upward on the jig, especially when using some backer board, this inconvenience is far offset by the decrease in mess and dust in the air. I would estimate 80-90% of the chips and dust is collected. Instead of a huge spread of chips and dust across my shop, I have a very small pile right at my feet. I find this pile is primarily from the first two fingers being routed. The collection gets better from right to left on the jig. The sliding mechanism of the front sweep makes it possible to stil see your bit and workpiece to adjust the height, and then slide it up to capture dust and debris.
It does not impede the router or the bit, and does not negatively affect the usability of the dovetail jig. As noted above, it just takes some more patience getting your workpiece in place properly. You do have to *really* back off, or even remove, the left side of the vacuum attachment to readjust the stop guide. When clamped to a workpiece it is very secure and I haven't had any slippage.
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11) Submitted by
John Babcock, from Wethersfield, CT
on 4/20/2007
The unit mounted easily and works very well collecting the dust. I connected the hose to a dust collector and no cleanup was required. The one thing that I noticed was that the bottom of the unit isn't vertically aligned with the top when inserting a piece of wood and took a little getting used to but when tightened the wood was firmly held in place.
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12) Submitted by
Tim Hiley, from Windom, MN
on 12/5/2007
Customer Rating: 
Without the dust collector the dovetail jig makes almost perfect dovetails, with the dust collector it is much cleaner but it doesn't make perfect dovetails. The dust collector just doesn't have the strength that the channel has and you end up with a gap between the the two boards when the clamps are tightened. Very disappointed.
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13) Submitted by
Dan Borreson, from Goodyear, AZ
on 1/18/2008
Customer Rating:
The unit should have springs on each end that would collapse when tightened. This could allow the unit to be upright instead of in on the bottom. This would allow much easier loading of the bottom board. I also use backer boards and because of the non slip surface in the unit, it is hard to get them in the best position. Also I would like the unit to be at least 1-2 inch lower. The first time I used it my router bit took a 32nd of an inch off the top edge. I know my bit was too low but there should be more tolerance than that. I don't think that would effect the ability to get most of the dust and chips.
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14) Submitted by
George Gotelli, from San Francisco., CA
on 1/25/2008
Customer Rating:
I purchased the Rockler dovetail jig with the intention of adapting it to a Porter-Cable dovetail jig which is quite similar. It required some relatively minor modification but I was able to achieve a workable and efficient dust collecter.
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15) Submitted by
Robert McCormick, from Social Circle, GA
on 6/24/2009
Customer Rating:
I was given the Rockler Dovetail Jig for Father's day, and was delighted to see the dust collector go on sale the very next day. I hate cleaning up wood chips as much as anyone, so I considered it a "must have" at any cost. After using it a few times, I must say that it does a great job. Hooked up to my Ridgid shop vac (the big one) it pulled in virtually everything that the router bit threw at it.
My only dislike is the manner in which it is mounted. Sandwiched between the jig and the front stock clamp, the dust collector hides the lower screw on the adjustment bar which must be loosened each time you center the stock on the template. The first few times I made this adjustment, I removed the dust collector and clamp completely. This was cumbersome, so I decided to make the task easier. I cut a slot from the mounting bolt hole to the lower edge of the dust collector. With this modification I only have to loosen the mounting bolts, not fully remove them. The dust collector will lift up and out once I have loosened the bolts far enough to make clearance for the dust port.
This modification doesn't seem to have harmed or weakened the unit in any way, but I'm certain it has eliminated my return options, should I find any other issue with the dust collector. Oh well, it was only $20 on sale. I would hope the good people at Rockler take note of my idea, and perhaps give it a try. Maybe, if they find no issue with the slots, they could modify their design and make their product that much easier to use.
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16) Submitted by
George Sokol, from Maricopa, AZ
on 11/29/2009
Customer Rating: 
The only problem I had was that my jig is an older version and has the clamp handle placed in the center of the axel, which puts the knuckels in the middle of the collector, so after a fiew joints I got wise and drilled and tapped the axel so that it is as the new jigs are shipped. I only needed to do the front axel, as the top handle is fine in the center of the jig.
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17) Submitted by
Bob Smith, from Woodland Hills, CA
on 9/11/2011
Customer Rating: 
I gave this product a poor rating because although I fundamentally it does what it was built to do, it's a very poor design. I'm more than a little amazed you have to uninstall it every time you use it. Unless of course you plan to use wood that never changes from one project to another. If your plan is to cut dovetails on stock exactly the same size every time, then you're good. But if like me, you plan to do different things, plan also on uninstalling the unit from the jig every time you have to do a new set up. I have to say, if given the choice to do it all over again, I would not have bought the package with the dust collector included, as I feel the jig itself works very well. But I'm betting this dust collector will sit on a shelf in my shop for the remainder of its' life, and I'll have to resign myself to the fact that I threw put good money after bad.
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18) Submitted by
G.R. Horst, from Knoxville, TN
on 3/2/2012
Customer Rating:
Great idea and functionality. However, unless it is re-designed to be either easy to remove, or easier to work around to set up the jig, I probably won't be using it much.
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19) Submitted by
Jim Vellella, from Pittsburgh, PA
on 10/31/2011
Customer Rating:
As intended, the dust collector did it's job very well, significantly reducing the dust and clean-up when routng dovetails on my Rockler Docetail Jig. I did have two problems, one was annoying, the other quite troublesome. The first problem was the sliding plastic air dam - the inside track popped out the very first time I tightened the front channel - I will re-glue and try again on my next project. The second problem was that once the collector is in place, as others have noted, you can not access the front screw on the stop guides without backing off or and almost removing the collector. My first solution was a 90 degree screwdriver, which allowed me to keep the collector installed, but still had to back off quite a bit to reach. My second solution was to replace the phillips head screw with a hex head 10-24 screw so I can use a thin open end wrench to make the adjustments.
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20) Submitted by
Chip Hill, from Mill Valley, CA
on 8/19/2012
Customer Rating:
I purchased the Rockler Dust Collector packaged with the Dovetail Jig, and it does substantially help keep the mess down. I’m assuming it was engineered after the jig itself as an add-on because it does really make set-up substantially more complicated. As others have noted, it gets in the way of adjusting the front screw of the “L” shaped adjustable stops, and as it is you have to unscrew and remove the Clamp Bar to be able to set up your project. I’m wondering if drilling a small slot in the back plastic wall at the level of the front set screws would interfere with the clamping function. I will try fix of using a hex head 10-24 screw with a thin open end wrench first though that’s just one more tool to get out.
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21) Submitted by
Daniel Vilarino, from Reston, VA
on 4/1/2013
Customer Rating:
I have to agree with the reviewers before me, who had given a not so good review to this product on the base of its poor design. Do not get me wrong, I love the idea of not having to deal with the chips and sawdust in my shop, but you are basically trading off the time you save cleaning up after the mess for the time you waste with the installation of the dust collector. Because you have to install it again and again every time you switch your project. Basically, the body of the collector gets in the way when you need to adjust the L-shaped stops. As somebody mentioned, I thought about routing a small slot in the body of the dust collector to be able to pass the screwdriver, but then again, while the L-shaped stops move horizontally, the brush part of the dust collector moves vertically, so I do not know if this would really work. Besides the fact that you are adding holes to a place where you want to create some aspiration from the vacuum and that the slots will degrade the already weak construction of the collector itself. I appreciate the idea provided by some reviewers of using hexagonal-shaped screws so that you can use a wrench that you can introduce laterally to the adjusting screws rather than a screwdriver, which you need to use from the front. I tried to use a right angle screwdriver, but, first, you have to almost remove completely the dust collector anyway, and it makes the process difficult and you might end up damaging the screw. In a device where you will having to adjust, and release these screws in the L-Shaped stops every time you do a setup it would be not a good idea to damage them but using a tool which is the one not better designed for the job. In summary, the device is excellent for removing the dust, it is poorly designed, and its construction would have benefited from sturdier materials. I am disappointed. I have to disagree with all the customers that gave 4 and 5 star ratings on this item.
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22) Submitted by
Joel, from Liberal, KS
on 4/8/2008
Customer Rating:
The collector helps tremendously with flying dust. I can actually see what i am doing. However, it could of been made stronger with better (more even)clamping pressure.The wood worker appreciates quality. It also is really in the way when clamping the wood in the jig. Would also like to see the dust port coming out the end instead of right in the front where i am standing. It does help 100% with the mess (which is what it was designed to do) but interferes with everything else.
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