Robin Lee (in ) said:

| "Morris Dovey" wrote in message
| ...
|| (in
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||| Comparing yours to that is like comparing a racehorse to a mule.
||
|| Thanks. The only difference is that I thought about the problem
|| longer before committing resources than they did. I started in '72
|| or '73 and their intro, according to my server log, wasn't until:
||
|| lvott201.leevalley.com - - [12/Dec/2005:07:30:01 -0600] "GET /ssq
|| HTTP/1.0" 302 301
|| lvott201.leevalley.com - - [12/Dec/2005:07:30:01 -0600] "GET /ssq/
|| HTTP/1.0" 200 4128
|| lvott201.leevalley.com - - [12/Dec/2005:07:30:02 -0600] "GET
|| /ssq/outline300.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 3162
|| lvott201.leevalley.com - - [12/Dec/2005:07:30:02 -0600] "GET
|| /ssq/place300.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 4171
|| lvott201.leevalley.com - - [12/Dec/2005:07:30:02 -0600] "GET
|| /ssq/measure300.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 6639
|| lvott201.leevalley.com - - [12/Dec/2005:07:30:02 -0600] "GET
|| /ssq/cut300.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 9920
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|| They fixed the materials problem but screwed up on the design. I'd
|| have been a lot more comfortable if they'd found a way to _improve_
|| the design.
||
|| I've been so impressed by so many of the LV / Veritas products
|| that I feel like they've let us all down - and that bothers me
|| more than that they decided to make their own.
|
| Just a quick note to say that this product did not come from either
| Lee Valley, or Veritas.... nor did our R&D guys have anything to
| with it. As a matter of fact - they'll be seeing it for the first
| time when the catalogue mails.
|
| It's an old technique - and one many people have been using for
| ages. We actually carried a Japanese version for a number of years,
| and it used a 1/4" square sacrificial stick along with a an
| adjustable fence (to handle a number of angles). Like winding
| sticks - most people build their own...I've done so myself many
| times.
|
| I can understand you'd like to see your version in production, as
| it is an elegant design - but I want to be very clear that we do
| not produce products based on other people's designs - to suggest
| otherwise is inaccurate.

Good. I'm certain you've already read my earlier comments on this -
the addition of a bit of "web" between the two arms will allow very
much safer use with a router; and a "lip" for attaching the fence
makes 90-degree alignment automatic (darned-near unavoidable).

People here on r.w have already educated me that the idea isn't new;
and that doesn't bother me overmuch. My intent was to make a useful
tool available - and I'd like to encourage you to maximize that
utility. I do, after all, look to Lee Valley to be a producer of
absolutely top-quality tools. :-)

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto