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Thanks for the kind words everyone.
@chemical_cake The chipping around the dowel holes isn’t from use, its from a bad auger bit. Since I wanted to use only my hand tools on this and I have better luck following an angled hole with a brace than an electric drill, I didn’t have a perfect bit as my #6 auger bit (garage sale find in amongst several others) has a scoring wing with a ding in it. I can’t correct it without filing from the outside of the bit (which would completely ruin it), so I didn’t sweat it too much. Honestly when I first started these I thought it would be more of a rough prototype to just try the design, but I liked them enough that I finished them out. Since they won’t be seen outside of the shop, I didn’t worry too much about it. Doesn’t affect the use at all.
@frankj Thanks for sharing. I’ve read that book by Hayworth, it’s a great resource. I had forgotten about it, and thought that your kerfing plane was from Tom Fidgen’s latest book “The Unplugged Workshop”, he uses it for creating kerfs to follow when resawing thicker boards into thinner stock. Hadn’t really thought about how it would work for the things you mentioned. As far as the Logan Cabinet Shoppe, that was where I first saw the marking gauge design a couple of years ago. I recently found it again from the Literary Workshop blog when I was looking for a mortise gauge design. I embedded Bob’s video in my blog post, but didn’t think to share it here. I’ll post it here so others can see it, Bob has created some great content over the years.
@juan-m One thing I shot for with this build was a tight fit between all the parts, and then took a couple of shavings off after that to allow for the finish. I took care to get the mortise for the sliding block pretty tight so there is enough friction there that you can set the pins and not disturb that setting when you adjust the fence. I might have to loosen it up if it tightens up because of wood movement, but I hope not.