Shooting Boards
Jerry Thompson
>I am getting ready to make a shooting board. My question is in the use of one. Does the plane take any material off of the boards edge when planing lumber edges or ends?
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Norman (Ottawa, Ont.)
>Jerry,
I'm not quite clear what you are referring to.
If you are concerned about the plane shaving off the shooting board backstop, this will occur but only for a few passes.
Once the plane develops a small rabbet like protrusion at the inside corner of the plane track , it is ok.
The protrusion (for lack of a better term) is direclty due to the blade not covering the full expanse of the sole. The small 3/16 ? portion at the sides of the plane sole do not plane away the shooting board channel and keep the plane away from the backstop after a few passes.
Norman
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Jerry Thompson
>Thank you. That gives me the picture in my mind that I needed.