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When making Paul’s shop stool design, I did two of the tenons early on, then didn’t work on it for a week or so. Then I had a bunch of free time around the holidays and did all the remaining tenons in one go. I was really in the groove and getting great cuts with my tenon saw, and crisp shoulders that matched my bevel gauge beautifully. Only later did I realize the gauge had shifted at some point, so all but the first two were slightly off in precisely the same way. Had to adjust every shoulder line a bit, which was very fiddly. For my current project I fixed my bevel protractor to the proper angle at the beginning and check my gauge against it every so often, and check both against the full scale drawing occasionally.