Chrisvj

Just to answer a couple of the questions below, mostly matters of good practice.

Dr CJ. Why not cut the inside next to the fence? Because then you don't have a loose block sculling around in a confined space between the blade and the fence.

Why you don't get kickback. Cut on the table saw first, then there is no loose piece to jamb and the weight and leverage of the jig prevents it. If using a mitre gauge make sure it is big and strong, you will only get a jamb if the workpiece can get out of line. Better, of course, is to use a full width sliding tray which runs in both slots.

Far too tedious.

I renovated a whole house, including new windows and custom doors, using just my radial arm saw but now I have more space and more saws so I leave a dado blade on the old Sears RA saw. It also has a stop block screwed down on the RH side.

Adjust stop block for tenon depth, try a couple of scrap ends to set up tenon thickness and then we are away.

Snap down a rail, run the saw over it, roll the rail with the left hand and pull the saw again. Stack the pieces. After they are all done raise the saw for the shoulders and repeat. If the saw is recently set up I can even do the shoulders in batches of four or six.

A comment above was "Only 31,000/year, If there are XXX woodworkers that's . . . .

Interesting way of looking at it but really not the point.

Say, on average, most of us woodworkers started in our twenties, (Some younger, some older) and do it, say till we're around sixty (and many do it much longer) then we're in for about 30 odd years each. Over the 30 years that's about 930,000 accidents (to someone,) (granted some have more than one, but we haven't even counted those who suck it up and don't go to hospital.

Let's say the population North of the USA/Mexico border, is, just for convenience, 330M and a very, very generous guess says that 10% are regular amateur woodworkers, that's 33M, then in the thirty years you use your saw you have bout a one in thirty three chance of being hospitalised for something very painful and a one in 300 chance of losing a digit.

I like flying amphibian aircraft. For several years our group discussed and wrangled over the best procedures for having the wheels up or down appropriately for land or water. Some pilots said it was all about procedure, and if we just stuck to it we'd no longer have the two or three planes dunked (wheels down in water) per year. It may have been true. I reckoned I was a good 'proceduralist.' Then one day coming back from a jolly the air was rough, I was getting thrown around a lot and I desperately needed to pee. Just as I was doing my checks another plane called he was in the circuit and I needed to look around for him. I left a long white line down the runway and suddenly realised, if I'd been on water I would have lost my plane (not to mention a risky swim in ice cold water.) I didn't do water again until I had designed and fitted an alarm system.

So far, in forty odd years of woodworking I have kept all my digits but before I use my saw again I am going to organise a decent guard, because when we finally added up our group stats we had lost about nine out of three hundred planes and a one in thirty chance doesn't look too good for planes or fingers.

It's always possible to show how things are done, even if we stop the saw to show how jigs work or cuts are made, especially in still photography. It's a small thing, and we're all adults, but if Fine Woodworking really care then maybe they will undertake, here and now, never deliberately to accept another article that shows a dangerous practice.