Kreg

Great product ideas emerged when two disciplines — woodworking and metalworking — collided. In 1986, Craig Sommerfeld was in the process of building his home and needed to find a way to attach his dowelled face frames to his kitchen cabinet carcass members. Although he was a tool and die maker by trade, and woodworker out of necessity, Craig had a problem. Not wanting to nail the face frames on and then fill them with putty, he designed and built “Craig’s Jig,” which was a single-hole pocket-hole jig crafted from steel and aluminum. Craig’s Jig allowed him to attach the face frames from the cabinet’s interior, where the joint could be hidden from view.