"Vic Baron" wrote in message
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Thanx George, after thinking a bit and reading the comments, I can see
where
it would be very difficult to get the extensions to be the exact height.
What brought it to mind was some 8' long 4/4 hard maple I'm using. Trying
to
cut corners because at 8' that sucker is heavy. I did cut it into smaller
workable parts and it went well.


Only drawback with cutting to length first is that you may get an unexpected
snipe in the planer and ruin a piece. I like to combine into 4' minimum
lengths. I used to crosscut an inch proud, then I learned that I couldn't
read a ruler that well, so I went to two. Still a lot easier to join a
board two inches over use length than to run the whole thing. I also make
one extra of the longest and widest piece in the project.

You do cut the longest pieces first?