Workbench Planing Stop

Great bench accessory

Ed Mulligan, Cape Cod

>I've been using a stop similar to Dennis' for a year and a half. I have a face vise, LV end vise, an Emmert vise, bench hooks, shooting boards etc etc but the full width end stop is the gadget I use the most.

The bolts are snugged up so the stop can be raised or lowered with gentle mallet taps.

Ed

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Mike Lietzow

>Very interesting Ed. How are the bolts attached to the end grain?

Cheers,

Mike

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Dennis Mcdonaugh

>I don't know what they are called, but I used a funny looking screw/bolt. It has a wood type screw on one end and a machine bolt on the other. Just screw one end into the bench and nuts and washers on the other.

Try wing nuts

Christopher Schwarz

>Wing nuts and washers make the operation toolless.

Nice looking stop. Mine's cheesy plywood.

Chris

Hanger Bolts are the name.

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

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Just lag bolts

Ed Mulligan, Cape Cod

>My bench has 'breadboard' end caps; stub tenon on the bench and a corresponding groove in the end cap. The end cap is attached with a single large lag bolt. The cap is 'sprung' so it is slightly concave in the middle, assuring the ends are snug.

The planing stop is attached to the end cap with lag bolts. They're recessed so they're out of the way. I adjust the bolts with a socket and ratchet wrench.

Almost all my preliminary stock prep is done with machines. The end stop is used for finish planing and scraping so it doesn't get a lot of hard use.

Ed

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Greg Sloop

>Thanks you two - the picture made it make sense for me. Excellent idea!

Thanks again,

Greg

Re: Try wing nuts

paul womack

>Nice looking stop. Mine's cheesy plywood.

Plywood is an excellent functional choice here, since the load is across the grain in a solid wood implementation.

BugBear

HEY! - OT

Adam Cherubini, NJ

>Hey where's your plane iron? That's one funny looking plane. What did you do, remove the blade and frog and glue sand paper to the sole?

Boy you new fangled woodworking whipper snappers are ingenious!

Adam

;>)

Ed Mulligan, Cape Cod

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Re: A couple more ideas

William Duffield on the Cohansey

>For optimum grain orientation for this application, you could also use a cutoff from the end of a table top glue up. It would expand and contract in the same direction as the bench top, but as any karate instructor knows, it can be extremely fragile :^)

For those using the Veritas twin screw as an end vise, just drop the planing stop in the jaws of the vise, and adjust the height with a mallet. No additional hardware required.

Lag Bolts...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>They look like this...