Rolling the dice on cafe wifi has burned me too many times to keep doing it. Last year in Lisbon I spent a whole morning bouncing between three cafes because the first two had dead spots or loud music, and I still missed a client call. So now I check whether a city has decent coworking options before I book, and I just build the $10 to $15 a day into my budget from the start. It stings a little, but losing a client over bad wifi costs way more than a day pass.

Sounds like you might be overthinking it honestly. I've run a full 3/4 stack through white oak plenty of times on a 1.75hp saw and yeah it bogs down but it cuts. That hot motor smell is probably just you pushing too fast, not the wood type. A sharp blade and slower feed rate fixes most of that.

Man, I read a thread on the JLC forums a while back where a guy swore by 1:1 plots for exactly this reason, said his eye catches tag offsets way faster at full size. But another guy pointed out that it only works if you trust the plot setup itself, otherwise you're just training yourself to ignore scale. Sounds like your A3 sheet is a plot config issue, not a drafting one, and a half inch off is a lot for a real tag error. Maybe check the paper size settings before you ditch the big prints?