Shooting board question

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Dan Donaldson

>The plane blade does not go all the way to the edge, so after the first few passes, there is a lip for the plane to ride on.

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Frank D. in Montreal

>Hi Stephen, the link below explains it pretty well. In short, the side of the sole next to the mouth is what stops the plane from planing into the shooting board. The first few strokes the plane takes off a few shavings from the board, but once the side of the sole makes contact with the side of the shooting board platform the plane can't go any further. There's a pic of that in the link. If you used a shoulder plane or a rabbet plane (a plane that has a blade the whole width of the sole) to shoot it would plane through the board.


Alf's article on the shooting board

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Stephen Kirk in Quakertown PA

>Good article and descriptions. I understand what's going on now, and where the critical parts are (dead flat edge for plane to ride on, and perfect 90 deg stop). I loved his "don't over analyze this" type explanation - I often get caught in that myself. Now I have something to do over the weekend.

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Steve Kubien

>Thanks for the link Frank. Alice, ya dun good! Fabulous work, as always.

Steve Kubien

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Hank Knight from SC

>A 3rd critical point: the plane blade must be adjusted parallel to the plane's sole.

Alf's a she.

John Clifford in Chicago

>You wrote "he said don't over analize this" or something like that. I'm assuming you mean Alf, and Alf's a she. Alf = Alice Frampton. Women woodwork too, who knew? ;-)

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Rusty Miller

>David Charlesworth has a dvd on shooting. Available from Lie-Nielson.

Rusty-Tye,TX

Lots of us

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>In fact, one of the joys of this forum is the number of fathers who are teaching their daughters how to get covered with sawdust.

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paul womack

>A 3rd critical point: the plane blade must be adjusted parallel to the plane's sole.

Heh. If we're being pedantic, the only thing that matters is that the plane's blade is perpendicular to the workpiece support!

However (as you imply :-) a simple way to achieve this is to ensure that everything is suitably straight/parallel/perpendicular throughout.

BugBear

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paul womack

>"There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody."

Florynce R. Kennedy

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paul womack

>David Charlesworth has a dvd on shooting.

Reviewed by Alf here

BugBear

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Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>"A 3rd critical point: the plane blade must be adjusted parallel to the plane's sole."

I would say that this is not critical at all. As BB said, "the only thing that matters is that the plane's blade is perpendicular to the workpiece support!"

I would also add the situation in which one uses a plane with an out-of-square side may be rectified by adjusting the plane blade so that it is perpendicular to the work piece.

Regards from Perth

Derek

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Stephen Kirk in Quakertown PA

>Oops, my sincerest apologies. I've even seen Alice post quite a bit, but probably never made the connection to "Alf".

Sorry Alf.

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Stephen Kirk in Quakertown PA

>That's the current battle with the older planes I'm picking up. I was just trying to practice some edging work and I have a bugger of a time getting an edge square to the face. After checking the blade, I find it's not perfectly flat across it's edge. Guess I'll finally have to buy a grinding jig because trying to square these edges up on sandpaper or stones is way too time consuming. Then I imagine I'll have to check on how the flat and true the frog is and shim if necessary. Then check the sole for flatness again (even that looked pretty good), then see if it's square to the side. I'm working on an old Miller Falls right now - just got the back of the blade lapped flat and a sharp edge (but apparently not straight).

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Alice Frampton, UK

>Don't give it a thought, Stephen. It's entirely my own fault for typing my initials as if they're a proper name. But all capitals looks wrong, and all lower case is altogether too modern. And let's be honest, the balance of probability was in favour of it being "he"

Cheers, Alf.

Or ALF.

Or alf.

Or Al.

But rarely Alice :~)

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kees

>and goodbye to Jester.

kees

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paul womack

>Don't give it a thought, Stephen. It's entirely my own fault for typing my initials as if they're a proper name. But all capitals looks wrong, and all lower case is altogether too modern. And let's be honest, the balance of probability was in favour of it being "he"

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change

BugBear (who suspects Alice has heard that one)

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Stephen Kirk in Quakertown PA

>Well, it's good to know your not actually an old sitcom character. I'd think it'd be tough to fettle a hand plane wearing that bulky furry suit too. Wow, there's all sorts of weird images running through my head now.

Derek, You Are Correct

Hank Knight from SC

>My comment assumes that the sides of the plane are square to the sole - probably not a good assumption. If the plane is out of square, one can certainly compensate by adjusting the blade so it's perpendicular to the workpiece, which, as Bugbear says, is the point, after all. It hardly makes sense to go to the trouble to shoot a workpiece if you're not square in the verticle plane.

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Dean in Burlington

>Wasn't ALF a furry character on TV? I think it stood for "Alien Life Form".....that would explain why ALF likes LV so much :)))