On Aug 8, 10:35 am, "Swingman" wrote:
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By batch cutting on a table saw/fence system you reduce this phenomenon to
almost nil because all the parts are the same, regardless of whether their
final measurement is precisely what the plans call for.


As a guy who has built a lot of cabinets over the years, I have
hammered away at my guys that "sameness is goodness".
Not only do errors accumulate, as Swing pointed out, they follow you
around the entire process of building, all the way up to and including
installation. Hinge locations, drawer slides, doors and on and on....
I would spend at least one day per month babying my sliding table saw
(with scoring blade...another challenge in itself) cleaning the linear
bearings and slides, blade alignments, fence alignments etc, to assure
'sameness' and "squareness".

Now, if I HAD to do it manually, the Festool system would be on top of
my list. I'd be pretty confident that with some diligence and
patience, I'd come pretty close. BUT.. at a snail's pace and with lots
of room for screwing up.

r