{"id":72,"date":"2004-09-27T00:03:05","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T07:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:12:08","slug":"sloppy-slots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/sloppy-slots\/","title":{"rendered":"Sloppy slots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miter slots stink.  No two ways about it, it&#8217;s really hard to make a tool that works well in a miter slot.<br \/>\nThe miter gage that came with your tablesaw wobbles several degrees.  If you don&#8217;t believe me, stick a long skinny piece of wood against the nice, 90 degree flat surface, put it in the miter slot, and wiggle.  I actually made a whole damn picture frame before I figured out why I had to recut each side eighteen times to get it right on 45 degrees&#8230; the resulting frame held a wallet-size picture, but that&#8217;s besides the point.<br \/>\nYou either need a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000051WSE\/personworks-20\">hunnert doller miter gage<\/a> with adjustable width, or better, build yourself a crosscut sled.  There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodshop.20m.com\/howto_crosscut.htm\">lots of plans<\/a> around the &#8216;net.<br \/>\nIf you build a miter sled, you can machine the runners yourself, and get them hyper-accurate in the planer (plane a board to the right thickness then rip off strips for the runners)&#8211;it&#8217;ll be a perfect fit to your table. That&#8217;s what I did, and I&#8217;m plenty happy with it.<br \/>\n&#8211;dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The miter gage that came with your tablesaw wobbles several degrees.  If you don&#8217;t believe me, stick a long skinny piece of wood against the nice, 90 degree flat surface, put it in the miter slot, and wiggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}