Project:    Making Small Clock/Frame Presents

	Since we want the wrap around, continuous grain look, Beth has set the Incra Stop to the first cut width of 5"
And she makes the first cut. The 5" length will give her one of the sides.
	Since, each piece of stock will be cut 5", then 4", then 5" and another 4" to give the wrap around appearance, she uses a 1" spacer to make the 4" cut. Of course, if she were not worrying about the grain  wrap-around, she could make all the 5" cuts and then the 4" cuts. Cutting in sequence takes a bit longer, but it will be worth it.
With the one board cut for the four sides, she lays them out in order. Since she is cutting parts for 10 boxes, she marks each piece with a number. The white mark will help to keep the parts in order. The number will allow her to assemble the right parts to each box.    Beth continues and cuts the parts for 10 boxes and a few spares, just in case.
	Beth slides the Incra TS-III fence to the router section.    I had said earlier that the Exaktor Overarm Guard was removed so that we could shoot the pictures of Beth making the cuts. Now you can see that moving it just means rotating the guard 90o. This makes it very simple to use and then get out of the way.
Holding the shaft lock knob in with her right hand, she uses the bent wrench to tighten the collet with the locking miter bit in place.
	She raised the bit to the approximate center line of the sample block,
She marks the two sample pieces with and "A" and "B". It takes just a few minutes to set the router height and fence accurately. [Note: she is following my procedure for setting up the locking miter bit. The step-by-step procedure can be found by clicking here.]
	I told you that we cut a few spares. It didn't take long to create a need for them.    Cutting the locking miter profile on the end grain of cherry can be difficult if things are not set up perfectly. It is very important to have total control of the small pieces.
Here is the mistake I had made. I used one of the pre-cut fence boards. I had selected the one that was closest to the size of the locking miter profile.    Normally, this would have worked fine, but the box  pieces are so narrow, that they can twist in the oversized opening.   In this picture, we are simply illustrating the action and are not making an actual cut. The router is off.    It was clear that we would have to make a new "zero-clearance" fence.