What is it ? #12 (With the answer now posted)

I got it!

Adjustable mail slots

It is a guide for the table saw when cutting boxes apart…

Or a pair of matching paddles.

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

Dado jig

-- Pat, Colorado

two pieces of wood with slots in them and two black plastic like thingies with threaded ends.

Yes! I won…

They are the cure for all known incurable diseases? Looks like a set up for cutting dadoes.

-- making sawdust....

Are they sliding breadboard supports? My second guess would be an adjustable router fence

-- The platypus is nature's way of saying "I made this thing out of spare parts I found on the floor, and it can still cripple you."

They are for truing one edge of a board on the TS.

-- If we learn from our mistakes, I'm getting a fantastic education.

A through mortise jig, the bushing on the router rides in the slot.

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

Is It a jig used by Africans to fit large wooden disks to their wifes lips???Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

A ladies curler clip. LOL
A Dado jig or perhaps a T/S jig for putting a straight edge on uneven planks.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

how about a jig to hold a planer blade for sharpening???

-- Fred, Springfield, Ma

maybe a jig meant to hold a stack of veneer for straight edging with a router?
The whole sliding thing has me stumped. You wouldn’t need it to slide if it were meant to hold something for straight lining. My second guess would have been a hold down for routing. (kinda like a feather board meant to hold the stock down to the table, not to the fence.)
perhaps kindling?

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. said something inappropriate. thought better of it. sad, sad, panda . . .

The answer is above. Some of you were very close.

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke".

Neat idea! What is the purpose of the rabbets on the pieces?

Lew

Lew,
The bottom of the box is captured in the rabbet, allowing it to float, which provides for cycles of expansion/contraction without splitting or busting the box.

Way more elegant than pencil marks on the fence, Odie!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Douglas, I think he means the rabbits on the stops. They’re just for dust control. They keep the dust from clogging up the works and changing dimensions of the stops. That’s important when you make ten boxes at a time.

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke".

I think he just wanted an excuse to show off that cool adjustable router plate.

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

Doh!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

And yes … That router lift is sweet.

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke".

Hey Odie… that’s not a bad idea.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

Odie, that one goes into my favourites box.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python