Classic ramped shooting board hung with a french cleat system. Antique woodworking tools projects vintage woodworking tools table saw. A ramped shooting board in walnut and maple part 1 posted on june 23, 2016 by jonathan i have long wanted a veritas shooting plane and on a recent trip to canada, took advantage of the exchange rate and purchased one. This shooting board is an absolutely musthave and rocketed me foward in the quality of my stock. A shooting board sometimes called a chute board is a jig that is used to support timber boards to be shaved with a hand plane. However, with a welltuned hand plane and a shooting board you can quickly and accurately true and smooth the edges and ends of boards. A bench hook is essential for making crosscuts by hand, and with the addition of shooting board features both for 90degree and miters cuts, it becomes an ultraprecise cutting jig for fine tuning project parts to a perfect fit. Shooting boards the essential aids to handcut miters. Chris schwarz recently posted about his simpleton shooting board and it made me laugh as i have a similar shooting board that i made several years ago. The more complexity you add, the less likely the shooting board will work.
If you plan to turn chair or table legs, tim manneys shopmade long tool rest allows you to make fluid, fullbody motions that yield consistent, smooth, flowing turnings. Once thats completed, youre ready to start planing an actual workpiece. They only wanted three pages but it kept growing as i remembered the shooting boards on the shelves in shops of my youth. He lives on a small farm in earlysville, virginia with his wife. In this video paul sellers shows how to make a simple shooting board from pine. He also shows you how easy it is to make simple shooting boards and miter fixtures, the many practical applications of these workshop aid and how to shoot freehand. Setting up and using a shooting board in the woodshop. Shooting board for perfect miters woodworking plan woodstore some woodworkers agonize over cutting accurate miter joints, because even a fraction of a degree of misalignment leaves unsightly gaps. Many computersdevices already have an app for pdf files.
This is an important piece of equipment for woodworking in. Tico vogt made it and he can make one for you the super chute 2. Downloadable woodworking plans philip morley furniture. Jan 14, 2014 because my shooting board is made out of baltic birch plywood, the preponderance of tools used in its creation will be electrified. Making a basic shooting board is a fairly simple process requiring minimal skill and time. Deneb puchalskis angle setting jig is a great tool for setting the correct projection of blades and chisels in a honing guide. Monday woodworking 101 simple small shooting board by joelav. Jul 30, 20 this is the way to make a basic shooting board, some woodworkers like to go to town making boards with all sorts of special features. The shooting board also works well for long grain edges on small, thin pieces which can be difficult to joint by the usual method in which the board is clamped in the front vise while the top edge is worked. In the end, i ended up with two shooting boards that now allow me to focus on the precision of my trade and i couldnt be more thrilled with how they turned out. Monday woodworking 101 simple small shooting board joelav may 09, 2016 a shooting board is essential for squaring up the end grain edges of boards, but can be used for many more things.
My simpleton shooting board the renaissance woodworker. How to make and use a shooting board chris tribe furniture. Shooting boards used to be a staple in most woodworking shops theres no better tool for trimming workpieces for gapfree joinery. In july my wife has birthday, i want to build a standing watch with vitrine part below so it will be an electric watch. Philip morley furniture is a oneman custom furniture. This shooting board has seen many years of use in my shop while meeting my preferences for jigs to be simple and adjustable for tolerance.
Monday woodworking 101 simple small shooting board by. Shopmade shooting board woodworking project woodsmith plans. A shooting board is essential for squaring up the end grain edges of boards, but can be used for many more things. Melamine is a good base because its smooth and the hand plane will glide across it. How to make a woodworking shooting board john malecki. Shooting boards shooting boards from times past came in all shapes and sizes. The ramp introduces a skewed cutting action and also spreads the wear over a greater distance of the cutting edge. I like to keep it simple, this shooting board does the job. The material list and plans on listed on the page by linking to download free shooting bench plans here in the original article. A ramped shooting board in walnut and maple part 1 the.
David charlesworth demonstrates how shooting boards can help you achieve accurate work quickly and reliably. Finetuning the joinery on your projects is a cinch with this musthave, precision bench accessory. Downloadable pdf plans for furniture, jigs, gifts, and more. The morley shooting board is invaluable for producing an accurate angle on the edge or end of a board while incrementally removing slivers of wood to make a piece fit just right. And the optional sanding plane slides along the base to fit a joint or simply sand a surface smooth. If you plan on using our vise hardware, we suggest reading these directions through before beginning your workbench build. The assembled box is sawn in half part way through the build, so builder needs to check measurements as heshe goes. I believe it is probably the best available anywhere. You can trim a miter quickly and accurately with nothing more than a sharp hand plane and a simple jig, like the one shown in the drawing below. Looking back on this as i write this article i will say that a larger shooting board works with any size plane but a small shooting board wont work well with a huge plane. Feb 01, 20 an easy tutorial on making a shooting board, a simple jig for working end grain. The reason a shooting board is a musthave for the shop is it allows you to take a paperthin shaving off the end of a workpiece with a hand plane something thats just about impossible to do with a tool like a table saw or miter saw. Jan 30, 20 in this video paul sellers shows how to make a simple shooting board from pine.
With inclined runways for the plane, ambidextrous use, and multiple fences, this is a shooting board that will fulfill all my. The boards are made from europly veneered in maple, with solid 14. Shooting board you can trim a miter quickly and accurately with nothing more than a sharp hand plane and a simple jig, like the one shown in the drawing below. Exploded view shooting board woodworking plans, tips and videos. A shooting boad allows you to trim down the end of a piece of stock. At the same time the shooting board provides the platform along which the plane travels so that wood and plane unite with an exact seldom seen by any other method of working wood. An easy tutorial on making a shooting board, a simple jig for working end grain. Shooting board for perfect miters woodworking plan. Shooting has no equal for producing an accurately square or angled end on a board while incrementally removing minute thicknesses of wood to make a component fit just right.
My shooting board with a veritas bevelup, lowangle plane. The first assembly step was to attach the legs to the work support. An additional fence on the top side of the base allows you to hold workpieces perfectly square against it. Get access to plans how to shooting board plans woodworking for. See more ideas about shooting board, woodworking jigs and woodworking. In 2006 i wrote an article for popular woodworking usa. Jan 19, 2012 shooting boards suspend the wood so that the wood can be chocked against a definitive stop. Shooting board fixtures 45 miter fixture made from mdf glue 38 wooden dowels into the underside of the fixtures and drill a matching set of 38 holes into the shooting boards top layer. Router multisled copingsmall parts our most popular plans.
Homemagazineback issuesoctober november 2007 plans projects shooting board. Handmade woodworking tools furniture plans old woodworking tools house. For many years i tried to design a shooting board and bench hook that would be worthy of publishing in popular woodworking magazine. The shooting board i use is made from 12 baltic birch plywood that is glued together. Shooting board plans woodworking expert advice on woodworking.
Because my shooting board is made out of baltic birch plywood, the preponderance of tools used in its creation will be electrified. As much as we work towards getting the perfectly square joint, it is often difficult to achieve with the tools and machinery we have at our disposal. The morley shooting board philip morley furniture free plans. Apr 28, 2016 the material list and plans on listed on the page by linking to download free shooting bench plans here in the original article. Edge shooting board for a left hand version move the 12 mdf to right side. This is the way to make a basic shooting board, some woodworkers like to go to town making boards with all sorts of special features. Place the piece to be trued onto the board with the face side against the stock. It has struck me that few discuss how one tunes and uses these wonderfully useful tools. Both square and molded stock can be trimmed on these types of shooting board, but craftsmen generally made them to suit their individual needs and so they. Home project plans free woodworking plans free miter shooting board woodworking plan this quicktobuild miter shooting board gives you the means to take just a whisker off your workpiece while trimming the angle of the miter deadon. The shooting board is a tool that disappeared when hand planes stopped being used by most woodworkers. Once youve made one you will have it for a lifetime and the accuracy is. This step by step woodworking project is about free shooting bench plans. You must be logged in to vote 0 you must be logged in to vote.
If the chute faces are not perfectly 90degrees to the work support, the whole shooting board becomes worthless. After the glue dries, i true up the fence for the shooting board with a shoulder plane until the appliance gives me 90 cuts every time. With this shooting board, you gain the ability to tweak the angle of the workpiece with the two microadjusters. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. If i wanted to make a super fancy board, id probably make it from solid wood and then apply something like formica after cutting the housings, but honestly the simple pine shooting board is just fine. Oct 23, 2016 the dimensions i chose were based upon me already having a smaller shooting board and realizing it was a little too small for the 608.
To use the shooting board, hold the plane tight against the edge of the rabbet. To download plans for davids shooting board in pdf format, click here. This is an important piece of equipment for woodworking in the hand tool shop as it allows you to make sure the end. However, a longer base will enable you to use the bench hook as a shooting board to square up the end of stock. Jun 23, 2016 a ramped shooting board in walnut and maple part 1 posted on june 23, 2016 by jonathan i have long wanted a veritas shooting plane and on a recent trip to canada, took advantage of the exchange rate and purchased one. With the fence removed you have a standard longgrain shooting board and it can be used as such. Typically, it involves planing end or long grain on boards. The reason a shooting board is a musthave for the shop is it allows you to take. A shooting board is a simple jig to hold small or thin stock in a certain orientation to achieve square edges or a desired angle. Joshua loves mixing his passion for woodworking with his ability to teach in a simple manner. Shooting board plans pdf includes end and edge shooting board configurations, as well as plans for mitered fixtures. There are a number of excellent articles in various magazines, books and websites on the types of shooting boards and the uses for which they were designed. This is an important piece of equipment for woodworking in the.
Another type of shooting board used for shooting both crossgrain and longgrain miters is the donkeys ear shooting board. Looking back on this as i write this article i will say that a larger shooting board works with any size plane but a small shooting board wont work well with a. With a sharp and finely set plane, end grain shavings a. In fact, many woodworkers add an outer guide to their boards runway to trap the plane in a chute hence the name. I tinkered with adjustable fences to dial in a perfect 90 cut, grippy working surfaces and fences with replaceable bits for zeroclearance cutting.
The shooting board in all its various forms is one such device. But with the return of hand tools to the average shop, this gem of old world woodworking is coming back too. You can trim a miter quickly and accurately with nothing more than a sharp hand plane and a simple jig, make 100s of woodwork projects quickly and easily. The vogt shooting board is a high quality ramped shooting board, particularly suited for precision planing of end grain. Alfs shooting board info is a fantastic resource for anyone wanting to learn about shooting boards. The body is fully stressrelieved, ductile cast iron, with a sole and running surface machined flat and square to one another. Solid wood will be the most instructive for learning to execute the housings. This pdf offers plans and material suggestions so you can assemble your own, and recommended tools for sharpening. Shooting board woodworking plan some woodworkers agonize over cutting accurate miter joints, because even a fraction of a degree of misalignment leaves unsightly gaps. It ended up as a 36page pdf and covered a wide range of shooting boards once considered essential to any joinery or furnituremaking workshop. Become a shooting board master master the shooting board and take your woodworking skills to the next level.
Precision shooting simplified dvd lienielsen toolworks. It felt, he said, as though the administration and the board was shooting from the hip. Once youve made one you will have it for a lifetime and the accuracy is positively stunning provided you use a keenly sharpened welladjusted plane. Thanks for that link mike never came across that one, and it includes dcs plans. Shooting board by norman pirollo the following is a short discussion and description of the shooting board in its various configurations. I took great pains to make the fence adjustable for all those times when i would need to tweak the fence angle. It is critical that the vertical legs be perfectly square to the material support.
You can check out my video on making woodworking shooting boards below, or ive shared stepbystep instructions for my woodworking shooting board plans below. George vondriska shows you how to make a benchtop shooting board and select the right hand plane to solve these and other problems you might encounter on your woodworking projects. Best design ive seen, given that i havent tried anything but a bench plane so far. Shooting board basics how to make and use a shooting board. I have designed these plans for a simple shooting bench, so that any person with basic skills and tools can build this in one weekend. You dont have to be an expert and you dont need to invest hundreds of dollars to build your own shooting. But you neednt fret about getting the angle right the first time with perfection it on the second try is fast and easy using this adjustable shooting board.
Woodworking shooting board plans for square joints, miters, and small panelslooking back over my projects from years ago, i am somewhat. If yours doesnt, several free versions are available. It is hip to be square woodworking the finished shooting board. Some woodworkers like to drill a hole through the base so that they can hang the bench hook on the wall.