Things have been slow going, most of my weekends have been full with family time.  However were almost to the end of that stuff and I'm starting to get ready for some more cutting in the shop.

To that end, I picked up some 3mm thick neoprene rubber material to replace the splinter guard on my track saw track.  This works out great, it is a closed cell plastic that is just a bit softer than the original splinter guard. More importantly it is just thick enough to level up the track and prevent it from rocking.  I was able to carefully remove the old strip and apply these strips while reusing the old double sided tape, it seems to stick well.

For whatever reason, my track saw tracks did not come with a hole in them for easy hanging, so I added some holes to them.  You can see the new splinter guards here, they have not been trimmed back yet.

I don't have pictures of it, but I spent an hour messing with my biscuit joiner, trying to square it up a bit.  I carefully measured the blade height at three points, worked out what direction the base plate needed to tilt, and shimmed it up with several pieces of foil tape. After some back and forth I got it level to within 0.2 mm.  That is within the accuracy of my measuring abilities, I probably can't make it any better.  I still need to go over the rest of my tools and make sure they are square.

I have been on the fence about some of my design decisions, and finally decided to just bite the bullet and pic something.  So I ordered a 10 pack of 12" drawer slides and another 10 pack of 22" drawer slides.  I received the 12" slides earlier this week and they are in really great shape. These have a rubber bit at one end that locks the slides closed so it takes a small pull to open the drawers. This is perfect, I really did not want soft close slides, but I did want the drawers to stay closed when I roll them around.

There was very little on Amazon about these, but they came with a nice instruction sheet.  The quality seems good so far.  I'm hoping the larger rails are in as good a shape.  The price was great as well, at around $5 a pair for the 12" rails and $7 a pair for the 24" rails, many times cheaper than at the big box store.

I'm still refining my drawings, trying to pin down the final dimensions of everything.  Once I feel that is settled, and I have a free afternoon, then it is time to start cutting.  Probably not this weekend, but maybe next.