Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

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Building interior posts.  Thought I had some smaller square tubular polystyrene.  Alas, what I had was too beefy.  What I really wanted was some round stock, but all I had was either the wrong size or was brass.  Got to thinking what else I had that wouldn't cost me an arm and a leg to get...  Dug into my old boxes or unwanteds and started thinking about parts sprues from plastic models...  Found some from a bridge kit that was perfect (aside from the occasional jutting of a parts holder that I'll sand off after cutting to the right length).

   

Then to cut them, I built a jig out of a small piece of leftover drawer that already had a deep slot cut in it.  Got my mitre box out with my smallest kerf mitre saw I had and cut a perpendicular groove to slide my track saw through, but that groove was too wide for the track saw.  Cut a narrower slot (the one on the right in the picture below) the same way with a very thin cutoff saw and now I'm in business.  Measured for the height of all of my posts and friction fit a piece of oak at the proper distance and I now have a jig for shearing off the posts repeatably and getting a square cut to boot.