I bought this jig to go with my new Jet 13″ planer/moulder. The p/m cost me 1/2 price of $350 because I bought last years floor model. On this recent job I’ve run off 1500 ft. of custom moulding and needed to make 7 ellipses with the same profile for all the arched windows and transoms. I ordered the jig from Jet and paid $475. only to find out upon delivery(special order) that it is a 13×20 three qtr. inch piece of plastic with 3 lockable bearings!! It had to be about $15. worth of parts. After reading the instructions(one page with reversed drawings that show the wood being fed into the wrong side of the machine) I proceeded to take my glued up ellipses and feed them into the machine the right way only to have them jamb in the moulder every time. About 2 days of glue up labor and form work and $100 worth of material destroyed. I call Jet technical services the next day and tell them it’s a piece of junk that cost me more than the planer itself and after an hour on the phone with a rep they get back to me and say I’m right , it won’t make ellipses as advertised and I can return it if I’d like. It’s going back and good riddance. They claim it’s bought from some outside contractor and is not truelly a ‘Jet’ product. Bull

. Stop advertising it as an ellipse jig then!! The long and short of it is that my custom knife manufacturer is cannibalizing one from a Williams and Hussey to fit my machine for $660 and I shouldn’t have any difficulty now. I just needed to vent and give a heads up to anyone else before they end up in the same bind I did.

Edited 6/9/2002 9:02:38 PM ET by Grateful Woodworking aka George A.