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I have retired my old sliding mitre saw style slotting setup and I put together this fret slotting rig today.

The sliding mitre saw has done well by me, but it had a little bit of flex which I wasnt entirely happy about.

I Started off with this second hand radial arm saw:



Removed the old chipboard bench and threw on some stuff I had left over from building my kitchen.



I then added my stewmac slotting jig which I've hacked away at a fair bit to create clearance.

I also added some runners, so that when the template is at is ends, its always flat.

Nice One Allan!

I would have kept the wheelbarrow...

kiwigeo wrote:I would have kept the wheelbarrow...

That wheel barrow regularly carts wood dust to the chookyard. 1 bag if not quite full is 1 barrow load. Very handy

Looks good, bit of a waste destroying that stewmac fret slotting jig but, there almost 200usd

This was one of the older design stew mac mitre boxes. They don't sell this type anymore as the brass blocks sucked. I didn't feel bad cutting it up.

The older ones were half the price also and it'd paid for itself long ago.