My current build of the AL San Francisco II included a lot of pre-cut pieces for construction several (6) grates. Unfortunately, nearing the end of the pieces, I was left with very poor quality pieces - too thin, some broken or crooked, wrong notches. I decided I would build my own. I bought a Proxxon tablesaw (KS115) and build a sled/jig to make the parts. I used scraps from my shop to put the crosscut sled together and added an indexing pin very much like a jig for building box joints. Then I did a trial run with a small billet of Basswood. It worked well but I still need to produce billets from either Poplar or maybe Maple for my final pieces.
