WoodraphicAll New Dovetail Jig Marker Hand Magnetic Saw Guide Marking Hand Cut Wood Joints Gauge - Aluminium/Uhmwpe/Neodymium Magnet/Slicone Skin (1:6 + 1:8)

I was torn about wherever this review would be a three or four star one and it barely scraped into a four star position.... I have been hand cutting dovetails for years without a guide but I find that even with my best efforts the saw cuts always needed a fair bit of fine adjustment with a chisel so thought I would try a guide to speed things up.It arrived safe and sound in a brown box and it looks to be well made from aluminium with neodymium magnets inside the alu with a ridged plastic coating over the magnets to allow the saw blade when attached to move back and forth easily.In use the guide does definitely work well and keep the saw blade on track but it was here that I ran into a problem.... unless you are cutting very shallow dovetails on thin stock a Western style backed dovetail saw will only get so far into the cut before the spine on the saw (in my case a Veritas saw) hits the alu body of the guide and then you will need to finish the cut freehand.... which in fairness you can then ride the blade of the saw against the cut already made to continue the accurate cut which for some people will be fine for others maybe not. I have a excellent large bladed and backed Japanese dovetail saw and thanks to it's larger blade it worked a lot better with this guide.So for the Western saw issue explained above I had considered giving the guide only a three star review but because the guide did work so well when the capacity of the saw blade allowed I decided to go for a four star instead and the guide wouldn't have got a 5 star review anyway because I think it's a little over priced for mass produced item.All in all a little over priced and not perfect but it does do a good job.

On my first attempt I sawed into the plastic covering the magnet. Not good.

A bit on the small side, but I'm generally very please with it. Does what its supposed to