with good saw and a good blade, expect exceptional cuts. by good saw I mean the base is perfectly square to the blade and has no bearing runout or wobble. A good blade with carbide and many teeth will help to control chip out.
Bill's correct, these confodelments have been a trade trick for decades. make yourself an 8' a 4' and a 2' and your golden. the drawback to this arrangement is it's more time consuming.
I took a week off last month for a furniture building course and was amazing at how simple some of the "tricks" were. I was most impressed by examples of "woodworking math", where complex geometry problems were solved without any calculations at all. I came out of that course realizing that woodworking isn't so much skill-based, but rather knowledge-based.
Another idea that really sunk in was that you don't build things to fit against a ruler, but rather against each other. Don't waste time measuring something with a ruler or a mic if you can use that piece directly as a guide. This sawboard is a perfect example of that.
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