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276619 Michael Blair <branson2@s...> 2022‑11‑24 Re: unforeseen challenges
Moans of despair!  Loud.  "There are too many tools
on the bench to allow for all the requisite position changes
of the stock." 

I feel your pain!  My 4 X 8 foot bench has the same disease.  Currently
working on the medicine cabinet from that very dark, very hot place.  My
neighbor wanted to make a cabinet around a glass front cabinet door, one
of two.  First one was rabidly out of square, so I took the other.  But
it was not square either, though not as bad.  Built a jig on the bench
top, built a face frame.  Dowelling jig failure.  Pulled it apart and
rebuilt.  That's when I discovered my framing square wasn't square. 
Pulled that one apart too.  Ah Hah!  Pulled out the #100 framing vise,
and guess what?  It isn't square either.  (How then, does it build
problem free picture frames?!)   Enter the horizontal boring machine. 
Face frame no assembled! 

Mike in Woodland

Recent Bios FAQ