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Actually, I cheated. 🙂
I didn’t do any joinery. The base on both is 1/2 inch baltic birch plywood. I applied a 1/4 inch piece to form the track. The fences are built up of two layers of 3/4 inch. I took a page from Paul’s book and stuck everything together with double sided tape which I clamped in the vise for good adhesion. It took me about an hour and a half for both, most of that was ensuring that everything was square.
The trick with the mitre board is to make sure the angle at the point is exactly 90 degrees. That way, if you shoot one side of the mitre on one side and the other on the other side, if there any variance, it will be opposite on each side, and therefore canceled out. I used my mitre square to get the fence as close to 45 as possible.
The donkey’s ear is scrap plywood, glued and nailed. Again, the most important part is to make sure the angles are as close as you can get them. (Hint, never expect the factory edges on plywood to be either straight or square. That caused me some grief. :~ )