Shooting Board Application-warning OT

Now, Bill...

Luke Herzberg

>...we all know you better than this. Surely you didn't just start whacking up cucumbers all haphazard like and willy-nilly. Where are the numbers, the studies, the data...bedding angle vs. cuke water content, relief vs. seed density, effects of sole waxing on pickling. At the very least, tell me you compared some modern tools with an original Stanley #384C vegetable plane with cucumber attachment??!

: )

Oh, and cool plane...cool as a cucumber. : )

- Luke

Re: Shooting Board Application-warning OT

Dean J in MN

>Now now, a LABU plane would work sooooo much better! :-)

Re: Shooting Board Application-warning OT

JL

>ROTFLMAO. And what sort of throat opening does your cucumber plane have?

Re: Shooting Board Application-warning OT

Tom in Tipp

>and all this time I've been using my band saw. I should have known there was a neander-route.

Thanks for the smile.

Tom

Re: Shooting Board Application-warning OT

Steve Kubien

>Can we get a close up of the shavings? I have always had problems with end-grain shavings when using a standard angle bench plane. What is your sharpening secret?

Steve Kubien

Re: Shooting Board Application-warning OT

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>LOL!

For watermelons, nothing beats a drawknife.

Re: Shooting Board Application-warning OT

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>Except a big adz mallet! JR

Re: Shooting Board Application-warning OT

Dave Anderson Chester, NH

>Now wait just a minute Bill. Last week was National Tool Abuse Week, you're a little bit late posting. ROTFLMAO

Re: inaccurate...

paul womack

>You'll never get precision slicing - you need to plane a reference face on the fruit first, and then push the reference face against the fence on the shooting board.

For oblique slices you'll need a mitre block.

BugBear

Re: Shooting Board Application-warning OT

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Foul! I think you will find that the consensus of opinion is that a Sledge-A-Matic™ is a power tool.

Don't forget

Skip in Falls Church

>the toothing blade for crinkle cut! :)

Skip

Where

Doug Littlejohn

>do I find Mr. Duffields shooting board directions? I tried searching Handtools and the archive but no luck.

TIA

Sherwood

Re: My "Stupid Dog Trick" Shooting Board

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Sorry, Doug,

You didn't find it because it was conveyed to Bill in private correspondence. It is designed to be thrown into the back of a truck and hauled to a jobsite. It has enough mass that it works, even with a #7, even if you can't find a sturdy bench to set it on. I've used it hung it over the lip of the concrete curb that separates the laundry area from the parking area at the back of a garage.

Instructions and drawing are for sinister Neanderthals. You might want to reverse everything if you are right handed.

Basically, here's all the info I sent Bill to allow him to throw together this kludge.

Making one is "falling off a log" easy, if you can do parallel and perpendicular cuts in plywood. Start with a square of 1" or 3/4" thick cabinet grade plywood about 2 ft. square. Next, cut another one the same size, except 2 1/2" or so narrower. You can use two 3/4" thick sheets, but a 1" thick bottom board and a 1/2" thick top board gives you more flexibility. Attach the top board to the right side of the bottom board, with screws and glue, leaving a chute on the left side that the jointer rides in, on its side. Attach a fence to the back edge of the top board, with screws, flush with the edge of the chute. For most work, a couple inches wide and an inch high works fine. You may need to adjust the perpendicularity to the chute with screwdriver and mallet. After you've got it square, put in a couple more screws. Attach another cleat to the bottom front of the board, so you have something to hook over the front edge of a bench, table, tailgate or sawhorse. You will also need a removable miter fence. Use the same stock as for the perpendicular fence, but cut the left end at 45° instead of at 90°. This gets screwed to the top, only when needed, with the 45° end flush with the edge of the chute. If you are going to use the miter fence a lot, then Instead of screws, you can install threaded inserts in the top and attach the fence with a pair of threaded studs with plastic handles.

Here's a quick isometric drawing of the beast, not quite to scale, but all dimensions have a lot of leaway, anyhow. Sorry for not removing hidden lines and not showing fasteners. If this is not clear, let me know. It doesn't do a very good job of trimming large crown molding, because the detachable miter fence isn't high enough and the jointer blade isn't wide enough. To maximize its capabilities, the miter fence should be a bit higher than the top of the widest blade you might want to use on it.

Maybe bill will offer comments on any modifications and improvements he made in his.

Happy slicing and dicing.

Not quite...

Derek

>Actually, he is creating a reference face. Since the normal object of this operation is NOT a square perpendicular face on a rectangular object (board?) but rather slices of similar thickness, he is creating the reference faces with his initial cuts and cutting the "shavings" with parallel faces. The actual fence here is the plane bottom, not the shooting board fence.

Ya gotta look at the goal rather than thinking about the problem with a traditional woodworking mindset!

:>)

Re: My "Stupid Dog Trick" Shooting Board - lefty?

Ted Shuck, Centennial, CO

>William,

This looks like a shooting board for left hand use.

I am right handed and have the chute on the right side of mine.

Are you a lefty?

Thanks,

Ted

Re: My "Stupid Dog Trick" Shooting Board - lefty?

Bob Fawcett

>Mine is similar, but I made "shoots" on both sides. I used 1/4" hardboard for the surface that the plane slides on. So far I have only used on the workbench, so I don't have a heavy duty base.

Re: My "Stupid Dog Trick" Shooting Board - lefty?

Jack Guzman from Maine

>"Instructions and drawing are for sinister Neanderthals. You might want to reverse everything if you are right handed." In William's post,the word sinister refers to lefthandedness.---Jack

Re: My "Stupid Dog Trick" Shooting Board - lefty?

Ted Shuck, Centennial, CO

>Jack,

Thanks, I missed that bit.

Ted

Is this Kosher?

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Someone better call a Rabbi...

Re: My "Stupid Dog Trick" Shooting Board - lefty?

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Left you are, Jack..."sinister", as opposed to "dexter" or "dexterous", a perjorative term if I ever saw one :^) And, the bench dawg is a "southpaw".

Awfully gauche, William. Please speak English.

Luke Herzberg

>

Re: Is this Kosher?

Feix B.

>As long the the same plane is NOT used to slice hot dogs :)

NO But its a Dill y

Ron in Kokomo

>

What about Hebrew National Hot dogs...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

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