We successfully cut out all the parts that will be used in the assembly of the Dobsonian 10" telescope. We ran into a slight issue after following Erica's advice to use a wide sharpie as the width of the saw blade. The sharpie's width is approx. 1/4 " and the width of a saw blade is closer 1/8". This made for some interesting recutting to remove a black sharpie line from the outside of each piece. Ah well, live and learn. As my wife said, "nothing a band saw could not have fixed."

We are going to start on the tail gate next. This is the piece that holds the mirror in the back of the scope. You can see it in the above image as the 10' x 10' square that has three holes in triangle form. This one should be interesting as we exercise some of our rusty geometry skills.