Worth the 20 minutes

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Worth the 20 minutes

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If it's too loud, you're even older than me! Like me.
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Note that it's different from the panel jig, as it will only handle pieces small enough to fit between the forward and rear stops.

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I built my sled several years ago and it works like a champ. The only thing I would have done different is make it deeper to accommodate wider panels.

Wish they would have had youtube stuff then.....I had to look at pictures to build mine.

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Good quality videos on Youtube are too few and far between. This one is very well done. Thanks Leland.
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Bruce Weldy wrote:.....I had to look at pictures to build mine.
Looxury - sheeer looxury! Oh we used to dream of having pictures to look at! The best we could manage were little scribbles on back of cigarette packet we found, which were just ideas from neighbour o'er road.

Cigarette packets! You were lucky to find them. Our part of the country were so penniless, even neighbours were hard to find. Mind you, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
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Bill Fitzmaurice wrote:Note that it's different from the panel jig, as it will only handle pieces small enough to fit between the forward and rear stops.
I'm sure it is Bill, but I wouldn't know as I'm still waiting for my free copy of the jig plans ........... :) :) :) :)
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The Wood Whisperer. I've watched a bunch of his videos a while back. William Ng as well. It sure is simple the way he explains it, along with how to get dead-on accuracy. Thankfully, Bill had provided good plans, so I was well on my way a few years back.
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Harley wrote:
Bruce Weldy wrote:.....I had to look at pictures to build mine.
Looxury - sheeer looxury! Oh we used to dream of having pictures to look at! The best we could manage were little scribbles on back of cigarette packet we found, which were just ideas from neighbour o'er road.

Cigarette packets! You were lucky to find them. Our part of the country were so penniless, even neighbours were hard to find. Mind you, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

Poor? We used to envy the poor.....we were so broke, we couldn't even pay attention.

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#9 Post by LelandCrooks »

Bill Fitzmaurice wrote:Note that it's different from the panel jig, as it will only handle pieces small enough to fit between the forward and rear stops.
True. I posted it for the squaring tips, and the excellent stop block trick at 20:00.
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Bruce Weldy wrote:
Harley wrote:
Bruce Weldy wrote:.....I had to look at pictures to build mine.
Looxury - sheeer looxury! Oh we used to dream of having pictures to look at! The best we could manage were little scribbles on back of cigarette packet we found, which were just ideas from neighbour o'er road.

Cigarette packets! You were lucky to find them. Our part of the country were so penniless, even neighbours were hard to find. Mind you, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

Poor? We used to envy the poor.....we were so broke, we couldn't even pay attention.
Broke? You lucky bastards. That meant you had some memory of money to even know what 'broke meant'. We just longed for the luxury of knowing what broke could even feel like. Mind you, we were happy...in middle of road....living in a paper bag.
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Harley wrote: Broke? You lucky bastards. That meant you had some memory of money to even know what 'broke meant'. We just longed for the luxury of knowing what broke could even feel like. Mind you, we were happy...in middle of road....living in a paper bag.
Uncle!

I'm tapping out.

You win. :mrgreen:

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Harley wrote: Broke? You lucky bastards. That meant you had some memory of money to even know what 'broke meant'. We just longed for the luxury of knowing what broke could even feel like. Mind you, we were happy...in middle of road....living in a paper bag.
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gdougherty wrote:It's easy when you're half-quoting Python...
Gotta have some point of reference for the great unwashed :mrgreen:
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