re: New mitre sled

Steve, that seems to be a matter of proper setup on the saw. I’m sure that would be a frustrating experience for me and I hope I never have to do it. Mine seems to be in pretty good shape.

Tonight I tried to make a right angle fence using a half lap like Jeff said. That failed. After gluing up what seemed to be a perfect fight angle, when I took the clamp off it was out of square. I didn’t try that again.

Instead, I went back to my original idea. First I checked to make sure the kerf was square to the front of the sled. It’s good. Then I set up one fence with one screw to act as a pivot, squared it up using a speed square against the front of the sled and then screwed it in place. I checked for squareness with every measuring tool I have about 10 times each and decided finally it was good. Then I repeated the process for the other side. I think I paid a lot more attention tonight than yesterday. It is as perfect as I can make it. I used a framing square to make sure the fences are 90 to each other. That came out very nice.

Unfortunately I couldn’t test it because the baby is sleeping. I plan to do 2 tests. Make a picture frame is one. The other is cut a triangle from each side and compare them side by side. That should tell me that the fences are square to each other and to the blade. Fingers are crossed.