too much effort cool and the last step of this operation is to adjust the fence so it cleans out the middle of those two cuts easy enough moving on to step three cutting out the notches leaving the middle that will fit into the mortise cut in the previous step for this operation i'll use my crosscut sled and i can use the material left over from the mortise cut in the second operation to set the blade height for this notch i could have used my miter gauge to do this step but i prefer to use my sled that has an adjustable fence attachment on it i set the fence using the cut end against the blade as a reference and use the tester piece to dial in where i should make the cut i was aiming for the edge of this cut to be right in line with the edge of the mortise i made in the previous step once i nailed that location i used a temporary stop block on my sled with some double-sided tape that i can butt the rest of the pieces up against to make that same cut on all the parts then i did the same thing for the other end of the notch fine-tuned the location so that the notch will be as wide as the work pieces set the stop block then made that cut on all three parts all that's left to do here is clean up all the material that remains between those two cuts by taking multiple passes with the saw and while i'm doing this just a quick word from this week's sponsor audible as you must have realized from these videos learning new techniques when it comes to woodworking is something that i love to do but one of my other passions is music and i try to soak in any information i can to help me understand music better so i can play guitar better with audible's newest plan audible plus you get full access to the plus catalog that's filled with thousands of titles across different formats and genres audible isn't just for audiobooks you can listen to exclusive podcasts and unique audible originals one of the series i've been loving lately is words plus music where artists from the music industry tell their story along with exclusive performances the latest one that i listened to was how to play the guitar and why by elvis costello i was never a huge elvis costello fan but this title was really entertaining and gave some insightful points about the process of learning how to play guitar if you're into music i highly recommend it and the other titles in the words plus music series which you will get full access to with an audible plus membership all you need to do is download the audible app and you can try audible plus free for NUMBER_TOKEN days head on over to URL_TOKEN tamar or text tamar to NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN and start listening today that's URL_TOKEN SHORT_HYPHENATED_TOKEN or text SHORT_HYPHENATED_TOKEN my name to NUMBER_TOKEN. all right now moving on to the other side of the workpiece to make the notch on the other side to do this i had to adjust the angled fence to match the angle when the piece is flipped over and just repeat the same process locate one end of the notch make that cut on all the pieces locate the other end of the notch cut out all the pieces and then remove all the material between those two cuts now this doesn't fit right away because i anticipated needing to clean up the joint a bit i used a
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