The thing about jigs is they dont just take over your hands, they take over your head. I caught myself last month staring at a piece of walnut for like ten minutes because I couldnt picture the cut without picturing the sled first. That's when it hit me, I wasnt seeing the wood anymore, I was seeing the setup. So I started doing what you did but smaller, just one cut per project by hand, no gauge, no stop block, just a pencil line and my eye. First few were rough, one shelf bracket came out so bad I remade it, but the fourth one was dead on and it took me 90 seconds. The jigs are still on my wall and I still use them for repeat stuff, but theyre tools now instead of training wheels. Chuck sounds like the kind of neighbor worth keeping around.

Same thing happened to me, the purple edge is just the lens being cheap. I gave up on stacking after that and got better results with one sharp frame and a good edit, way less headache.