In-Depth Woodpeckers Auto Angle Drill Guide Review: Features, Pricing, and Performance Test!
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- In-Depth Woodpeckers Auto Angle Drill Guide Review: Features, Pricing, and Performance Test!
Welcome to our in-depth review of the Woodpeckers Auto Angle Drill Guide. We meticulously explore its extensive range, dissect its pricing strategy, and uncover its standout features. Join us as we rigorously put this tool through its paces, testing its performance in various scenarios. By the end, we provide our conclusive thoughts, helping you decide if this drill guide is the perfect addition to your woodworking arsenal.
The video is time-stamped, so you can quickly find the essential information you are looking for.
00:00 Introduction
02:20 Woodpeckers Auto Angle Drill Guide Square product range
05:09 Woodpeckers Auto Angle Drill Guide Price Point
18:26 Woodpeckers Auto Angle Drill Guide Key Features
22:45 Woodpeckers Auto Angle Drill Guide in use
26:59 Woodpeckers Auto Angle Drill Guide final thoughts
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Hi All, back into the swing of things with a great video on a quality product - would be interested in what you think.
Excellent review. First class! I've never been disappointed with Woodpecker's precision and quality.
To be honest it’s my first experience of Woodpeckers, and only had it for a few months on loan - but the quality did shine through.
Cheers
Andy
What a great review, I was considering this guide but after seeing you so clearly demonstrate all the features I'm quite convinced it is the quality item I want it to be.
It is a quality device, you will see in the next video how it compares to the UJk guide.
But yes it is quality, I can’t like the dowel solution though :-)
Andy
Got mine a few months back, works great..
Thank you for commenting
Would the anti-clockwise rotation not be in order to stop any accidental drift in positioning as the clockwise drill bit bites into the wood?
EDIT: yeah, I think that's why. The clockwise drill bit wants to send the body of the drill+stand anticlockwise. If you've already forced it as far anti-clockwise as it can go, no chance of drift.
That is an excellent point, and yes that is probably it.
Thank you.
Great review Andy, the price point of the Woodpeckers tools have kept me at bay. Really nice stuff but nothing I haven’t been able to live without or find a reasonable substitute. I do have a small triangle square by Woodpeckers and it is a treat to use. Thanks again for a great video.
Thanks Kyle,
Cheers
Andy
I think the extension rods will sit nicely on the round stock guides to position them correctly. It appears that way to me but I'm an old man with bad eyes so who knows. Thanks for the review. I have the other Woodpeckers drill guide and only use it sparingly so this would not be an option for me. Now off to the subscribe button!
Welcome to the channel and good to meet you.
Sadly they won’t fit, I still think it is a compromise based on the awesome angle ability. But such is life.
I reviewed the smaller guide, that’s is a quality product, again at a price.
Thank you for taking the time to comment.
Andy
Great review Andy as always... wow that's expensive (as you rightly say) HNY
Thanks Paul,
Yes that is some investment, and HNY2U
Cheers
Andy
Another great review, Andy. I wonder how long it will be before someone makes a one piece 3D-printed auxiliary base for the round stock alignment.
Hey Mike,
Yes that is probably how I would solve it. Having said that, I don’t drill that much round stock - and the rest of the product is awesome.
Andy
Hi Andy great review as always. Might be a lovely product but when I can get 12 deluxe drill guides from Banggood at £68.61 each then I would struggle to justify this when all I want is a straight enough, or angled enough hole. Maybe if I was in a professional setting then possibly but for a Diyer I am not sure if I need that accuracy. Keep your excellent content coming. Must admit I would put that £829.88 towards a Festool CSC SYS50 first.
Yes
The price point is the elephant in the room on this one; and like everything it comes down to your use case.
I will be looking at the Banggood product at some point so it would be interesting to see how they compare.
And yes, the sys 50 is a great product, but it is really bad at drilling holes 🤔
Cheers
Andy
I wish they had different height springs. I usually end up taking the spring completely out because I won't get enough depth with it in.
That’s a good idea,
I wonder if that will alter the return pressure - I was pretty impressed it held the weight of the larger Festool drill but still didn’t make it hard to drill. A really good balance.
Cheers
Andy
Also one word of caution that the hex on the top of the chuck is pretty easy to bend if you put too much torque into it. I was using it to make some 20mm holes for an MFT top in 2x plywood and it got bent. Woodpeckers was great about sending me a new one, but I wish the top of the unit was heavier duty. @@TheWoodgrafter
Great feedback,
Thank you.
Andy
I have the UJK version. Don't use it often, but it has solved the problems I wanted it to solve. The one thing that would have made it better, at least for my purposes, is a fence. In that respect, the Woodpeckers is better.
Hi,
The next video compares the two, I think you will find that interesting.
Cheers
Andy
@@TheWoodgrafter UJK really missed a trick by not including a fence option. I ended up making one myself, and it works, but it is not elegant.
@@williamstead6354 agree, I use the Festool track and fence to give me repeatability in both the X & Y plane.
So it works as part of my system - obviously a very workshop centric solution though.
Cheers
Andy
$700 and no key on round stock thingy... Yea... that's a bummer...
Yes
Not my favourite design decision. Given the normal quality of the engineering I was surprised - such an obvious thing to do.
But that’s what they have decided to go with.
Cheers
Andy
8,000 years of plastic behind him and he likes the environmental friendly box…..
That’s a good point, but that isn’t going to Landfill. But at some point it probably will - hmmm yes really good point.
I have a high quality REAL drill press in my shop. Unless you ACTUALLY are professional with on site needs for a tool like this it is Way overpriced and a one trick pony .
I did think that at that price point you are into drill press territory, and if you have the room in the shop - then that becomes a no brainer.
There are time when you would want to take the drill to the work, breadboard ends come to mind, but other options and products are available.
As with all these things it depends on your use case, I am not sure you need that level of accuracy on site (I can’t think of a use case) so it is a shop tool, and fills a niche in a well engineered and manufactured way, but at a price…
Cheers
Andy