Hey Michael

Great Stuff. Great site. And my favorite power tools too. This is the exact set up with saws and mortises I'm striving to.

You mentioned laboriously having to fiddle with your ingenious set-up. Any thoughts on building it differently after the fact? How much time did you have on the front end to build these?

One other question for you besides all the goodness above. Why did you reference the bottom of your posts? I disagree with making the bottom cuts first. I prefer to always reference the highest shoulder and leave the posts long, shoot with a transit, then adjust post bottoms last. I guess your subframing was probably done by you, and judging from your precision, it was OK to go ahead with the cuts on the bottom.

Thanks for the post. Lot of stuff to digest here.

Mo