A fixture for drilling a pocket hole in a working face of workpieces of
different thicknesses is a U-shaped member having a guide leg and a clamp
leg parallel to each other and joined together at a bottom end of each by
a transverse base leg. An angled guide channel is in the guide leg that
has an entrance for a drill bit on an exterior part of the guide leg and
an exit on an interior face which opposes the workpiece working face. A
plurality of horizontal elongated ribs are spaced vertically apart on the
guide leg interior below the guide channel exit and there is a shelf
having a face on which a second face of the workpiece that is transverse
to the working face is to rest and that has an edge with a plurality of
horizontal vertically spaced ribs to inter-engage with the ribs on said
guide leg. A screw extends outwardly from the shelf to extend through a
slot in the guide leg and a nut fastens the screw against the guide leg
to hold opposing ribs of the guide leg and shelf inter-engaged. Selection
of the point of inter-engagement of the ribs sets the height of the shelf
support for the workpiece relative to the drill guide channel exit.