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mountainbreeze wrote:

rpd wrote:
Then, this morning, Matthias Wandel posted this video, that includes that operation (starts around 6:20) and all became clear.

I'm still not clear on why he didn't set up the saw so that the drawer was between the rip fence and the blade with the waste on the outboard side (his left) of the blade.

I suspect is was faster to set up, also he uses the same setup to trim the ends of the drawers, (6:45). which would not work doing it the other way.
At 6:48 it shows the back of the cut and there is no waste piece coming off, so he is really just "planing" the edge with the saw blade not ripping it.

mountainbreeze wrote:

rpd wrote:
Then, this morning, Matthias Wandel posted this video, that includes that operation (starts around 6:20) and all became clear.

I'm still not clear on why he didn't set up the saw so that the drawer was between the rip fence and the blade with the waste on the outboard side (his left) of the blade.

Me too! What matters is the resultant height of the drawer, not the width of the cutoff.

May be a matter of the bottom being a poor reference???