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We interrupt your regularly scheduled project update for this very important announcement. Pizza! If you haven't already heard about the Super Peel, you should really check it out.  It's amazing.  If I wasn't so do-it-myselfy, (and cheap), I'd have bought one by now and one for every member of my family.  Seriously consider buying or building one for yourself.  It's worth the money/effort.

A drawer opening stop is a small device that prevents you from pulling a drawer out all the way and dumping the contents on the floor, or worse yet, dropping the drawer I worked so hard to make for you.  Be careful!  Geez! My first solution to this problem was ridiculously over complicated.  This is a bad habit of mine.  I took a long look at my Sketchup model.  It finally dawned on me that I

I've been using my Veritas Low Angle Jack Plane for shooting.  It's fine for stock less than 1/2" thick, but it's a real pain (literally) trying to shoot end grain on 3/4" thick stock.  On this project so far I've shot 102 ends with O1 steel. Last year I strained some of the tendons in my right shoulder and had to go through 3 months of physical therapy to get things back to normal.  

The side components of the web frames have a 1/8" deep groove 1/8" from one edge.  Since my bench dogs are 3" in from the front face of my workbench, and these components aren't 3" wide, I needed to find another way to hold the part so I could cut the grooves. My first thought was to just bring them to my brother's house and run them on the table saw.  This is the fastest solution to the