The Woodshop Shed

My take on shooting boards

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


Hi all, Over the last few months I have been rediscovering the pleasure and satisfaction of working with hand tools. I don't think I'll ever give up power tools, but as a retired tool and die maker, I've always felt good creating something by hand. I also try to use my machinist tools when ever possible, mostly because I'm just a nut for accuracy. ( can't help it, just the way I was trained). Some time ago I picked up a Veritas low angle jack plane, and these shooting boards are built for that.
The base of both of these is a piece of laminated mdf. I think they started out as part of a computer table, all I know is they were slippery, flat, the right size, and free. the rest is baltic birch ply, and maple blocks. On the shooting board for 90 degrees I used a fixed maple block for registration and a moveable block to tweak in for a perfect 90 degrees. The fixed block has a couple of 10-32 screws for fine adj. of the moveable block. I also use this shooting board for bevels( and here I am cheating). I am using my sine plate and gage blocks to hit exact 45 degree bevels. The second shooting board is for miters and is adj. for around 20 -50 degrees. It is designed for shooting both ends.It has a fixed block in the center to reference against and( I'm cheating again) my sine bar ( I made it 40 years ago) and gage blocks to set the angles I need. Please note: I am left handed and made the shooting boards for that. In both cases the boards are mounted to my assembly table. The smaller piece of bb ply on the left has the edge beveled at around 7 degrees to help contain the plane. Here are some pics.
Thanks for looking- Jim

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