Still throws me off when someone says Henry and they don’t mean me, but I concur, nice work.
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Thanks for the kind words, guys.
If you’re looking for a cheap way to add a side gauge, I used extruded aluminum, a Starrett stick on rule, and some cut and welded sheet metal to make a side stop system that doesn’t require batteries or for me to have a tape measure handy to cut accurate lengths. The sort of thing you do and then wonder why it wasn’t the first thing you did.
The 8.5" number is the distance from the solid plate to the rotating extended stop, so the rear face of the window cutout is 8.5" from the front edge, and I use whichever edge matches which stop surface I’m using.
A couple other bandsaw additions I made early. Material supports for the out feed and in feed sides if the saw.
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This is a slick setup. I dig it.
I set it up on a table I told my wife I didn’t want and we didn’t need, and she bought it anyway. It sat under a tarp out back for a couple months before I decided to see if I could make it useful. She’s never going to let me live it down how perfect it’s worked out where I have it right now, but I’ll suffer through it. 
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this thing is slick! one more reason for me to buy the 3/4 drill gig! I have the Evolution regular chop saw would be super handy as I cut all my long stock on my old wells M-8! that jig would be handy fo all the small drops I save!
I got these specifically because of this thread. I think they’d be the solution to your problem, and are pretty cheap on Banggood.com
If you need, I can look up the specific versions I got, but you’d be better off finding the one that checks off the most boxes for what you’d use it for, as they have a number of options available for saddle squares.
Thanks for that. Looks similar in concept to the DIY gadget made from a section of square tubing posted earlier in the thread.
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Yup, but they do a few extra angles as a bonus, and don’t care what the corner radius of the tube is since they have a sharp inside corner.
Let me make this a little bit complex (That’s a joke). First a relevant definition from ASME Y14.5: Feature of Size- “A single circular or cylindrical feature, or a pair of opposed parallel features, associated with a size dimension.” Key elements are 1)A SINGLE DIMENSION and 2)THE DIRECTION OF THE MEASUREMENT IS DETERMINED BY THE GEOMETRY OF THE FEATURE OF SIZE.
The measurement is a single diameter or width/length. The direction is perpendicular to the width/length Or to BOTH tangents to the circle or cylinder. Point being a miter cut angle or tube DOES NOT QUALIFY as a feature of size. (Attempts can be made to qualify the distance to the acute (or the obtuse) edge of the miter to the corresponding edge of the square cut end but both those approaches lead to “Which dimension represents the length of the part?”
Two perfect lengths connected with a perfect miter exist only in design, CAD or otherwise. In reality something will be off. (You can get ultra precise for an ultra price).
So what of a piece with a miter on one end? Call the square-cut end a datum feature and apply a profile tolerance to the mitered SURFACE.