Build A Shooting Board that Handles 5 Jobs
Simple, versatile design excels for trimming end, edge, and face grain.
Synopsis: With its long base and two-part fence, this multi-purpose shooting board can handle five different planing jobs. Like most of its kind, it’s good for trimming end grain and miters. But it also works great for shooting the edge of a board and serves as a planing stop, handling both thin and thick parts. Timothy Rousseau demonstrates how to make it, and then shows you how to use it for all of these tasks. From issue #267—Mar/Apr 2018
As an instructor at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, I have seen many different shooting boards through the years. After using them at the school, I often made versions of the best ones for my own shop. They really started to pile up, which bugged me, because I am by nature a distiller, constantly evaluating my tools, machines, jigs, and techniques to find the cleanest and simplest solutions.
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Comments
Assuming that the bench underneath (as seen in Tim's long grain shooting image) is anything but flat (community shop) - one should add a subbase underneath the noted base for the plane to ride on top of?
Yes, if your bench isn't a "trusted friend", I would put a piece of plywood or MDF as the base.
Thanks Ben!
If you do add a sub-base don't forget to add a small dust relief channel at the intersection where the sole of the plane meets the sub-base.
The shooting board has all appearances of being built with a cabinet saw and aftermarket miter gauge the combo of which is capable of cutting almost glass-smooth dead square ends and spot on miters at any angle you would ever need. If I owned the saw being used to make the board, I wouldn't need the board.
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