Crosscut sled

I have needed a crosscut sled for my table saw for quite a while. For example, I had to resort to this for a project:

Please do not do this. It is low-precision and seems unsafe

I got these Rockler tracks on sale (that I could have just made out of wood in retrospect). I was intimidated by getting a perfect 90 degree angle both in pitch and yaw, so I put the project on the backburner for quite a while. Finally I came across a Steve Ramsay video where he just banged it out with a square (instead of the 5-cut method) and it reminded me that it doesn’t have to be perfect to be a significant improvement.

Here’s the result:

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