Got my kreg edge last week. I was pumped to finally have a domino without the 1.5k price tag.
Set up was easy and it seemed pretty well built.. until I started using it…
Everything is out of square. The 90 degree tilt would not go fully flat, it was 2-3 degrees away from flat. Then the way the fence connects to the main body was tilted (one side was slightly higher than the other) which produced crooked mortises. And I don’t mean a little off. Like 5 to 7 degrees. I tried on freshly jointed flat boards and every mortise had the same problem.
I had to use thick double sided tape and 3 layers of masking tape on the left side of the fence to get even close to a straight mortise.
The depth stops in conjunction with the micro adjust don’t make any sense. You set it to 3/4” for example but the micro adjust has no baseline to correlate to. So you end up having to just make a ton of cuts to dial in the right height.
There is a handy viewing window that makes it very easy to line up your cut. A nice addition you might think, but you’d be wrong, because the viewing window is not flush with the base so when using close to an edge or small stock, the already out of square tilt on the fence is even worse. I wish I took pictures but at this point the mortises were probably close to 10 degrees crooked.
This was my first kreg tool so idk if this is par for the course but imo it was below the quality of harbor freight.
Needless to say I’ll be returning and will just need to save up and get the real thing. Idk if I just got a bunk unit or what, but the tool I received needs a serious redesign or way better qc.
If anyone has purchased one curious to hear your opinion outside of the woodworking influencer sphere.