Doweled and Fully Fit Pinblocks

[Ron Nossaman]

> Can we back up a step?  How are y'all removing your original blocks?  
> I've seen 3 styles of Stnwy stretchers. On the ones with an angle on the 
> outer face and perpendicular on the inner face, we had an angled piece 
> of spruce we would we would tape to the front of the stretcher in to run 
> the router along (with the Bolduc cutter). This results in a 
> perpendicular cut at the block joint.
> /                Michael Spreeman

Why would you care what the original joint angle might have 
been from the front of the stretcher? You're hoggin' the 
sucker out to a new system reset that lets you do it your way 
whatever was originally there, I'd hope. Isn't the point to 
establish  a baseline standard that wasn't necessarily 
(mysteriously and apparently arbitrarily) originally there, 
the better to establish a defined and quasi rational starting 
point? And if not, why not?
Ron N