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Follow up video: ► (It's about adding a counterweight, which is a really helpful improvement) Chapters: 0:00 ►Useful introduction 2:49 ►Dimensions of jig 3:40 ►Installing jig 8:57 ►Limitations 11:29 ►Milling 20:25 ►Finishing up After watching a ton of footage for this project, and after having spent a fair amount of time both thinking about this thing and playing around with it, I've reached a few conclusions. First of all, don't buy one of these; make one. The design shown in this video is solid. A steel one will perform no better, and it'll just be heavier. The limits in its performance come down to user error and/or application, not from any shortcomings in the gizmo itself. Getting it straight: my earlier cuts would tend to allow the weight of the saw to slightly plunge the nose of the bar sideways, which resulted in a beam that was a little wider at the top. You can see this in the footage by looking at the uneven gap between the jig's 2x4 and the guide ra
