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It does an excellent job of pulling right angle joints together before installing the screws. The rubber coated handles provide good and comfortable grip. The Kreg Right Angle Clamp is an essential tool for someone doing a full range of pocket hole joinery. It is easy and precise to use.
It is helpful for clamping pieces of wood together when you are joining wood for pocket holes or even for gluing. Its a simple tool and does its job.
I know that IF I ever get my hands on this product I will give it a solid "FIVE" stars. I got the Kreg Jig for my birhtday, I really could have used the Kreg RAC but the folks who I was going to buy it from ran out.
They held the plywood panels together very snugly to counteract the Kreg screws tendency to pull a panel slightly inward. Well worth the investment. On advice from others I bought two for constructing a bath vanity.
Or perhaps the owner has a defective clamp. The ply or particleboard sides and back of the cabinet are completely hidden for most cabinets and virtually always covered on end cabinets. If you need 100% square accuracy, you can hold a square in place against the joint while you drive the screw. In any event, this is a highly unusual complaint, and I've yet to hear from anyone else with this problem. Try THAT with a corner clamp. This clamp works flawlessly every time.
Use the clamps in one or more pocket holes while you drive the screws into the others. As to the review that talks about blowing out the pocket hole, the only things that could possibly cause that are drilling too small a pocket (the clamps work perfectly with Kreg drills), clamping so tight as to crush the pocket, or clamping at an extreme angle (the clamp will work at a range of angles, not just 90 degrees). Conceptually, it's very simple. To the reviewer that wondered about using pocket holes on the outside of items: In cabinet making, it's the INSIDE of the cabinet that's the concern. Trust your own judgement, though, go to a demo at a woodworking show or store and try them. It replaces one of the flats on a normal Kreg clamp with a pin that fits in the pocket hole.
By the way, you can use these to clamp items that are not flush to one another, e.g., frame reveals, parts with differing thicknesses, and inset panels.
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