On Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 8:50:27 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:


If you were to make a set of these bench pads, would you follow the
instructions and make the slots in the individual triangles after
they were already cut or would you make the slots in the board and
then cut the triangles?


I'd cut the slots first and be done with it. Might not matter that the triangles are perfectly equally sized. If the slots are not perfectly equal, then the triangle's tilt would be off, a little. Both the slots and triangles would need to be perfectly cut and each perfectly matched, for the pads to sit perfectly level, assuming the table top work place is level.

Compared to the example in the link, a similar project, in my workings, wouldn't need to be perfectly cut or level.... and they seldom are for this sort of pad application.

A better(?) pad application might be to cut an arc along/from the edge of a short 2X4. Rest the work piece on the pointy ends of the cut arc.

Sonny