Need more help adapting to use my Roman/low workbench. Y’all helped me a lot with the technique for long faces. Now I need to figure out what to do with long edges. It has a face vise and a hole for a holdfast on the other leg. Putting on those make the board fairly low if I try to stand. Tried sitting on the bench from the other side but that feels awkward. Sitting in my chair, the board is a little tall and it’s hard to go along the length.
suggestions for edge planing on a low bench? Or for disabled folks in general?
This from the LAP blog. Scroll down a couple of screens to the Planing Stop. Some offset holes (ie not all in a straight line) and some pegs can be used to keep a board upright on its edge.
I have sat in an armed chair and planed with one hand using a block plane and locking the wood in my non dominant hand and arm. This way I can do any length. I was not concerned with co planar or a flat surface at the time.
But, with practice, I could accurately plane softer woods. You could do this while watching the superbowl. Or, is that done?
Would you have better leverage with the board (1) upright on its edge, or (2) laying on its side on a shooting board? Where the shooting board supports the board on its side and the plane on its side as well.
If the answer is ‘upright on edge’, it would help to have a picture of the bench. I’m sure we could figure out a way to position the board lower, just clearing the bench top, so you have leverage from your chair on the near side, right next to the board.
I’m ok with either method and thought about both methods, Wiley. The boards I’m working now are 12’ long and I’m aiming for 7.5’ to 8’ final length. What’s the best way to get photos on here these days. I haven’t used a secondary photo site since photobucket changed it’s operation.
The program prompts you to select a photo from off your computer, like from a Photos app; it then resizes that photo to 100K and has you download the resized photo. To insert the photo into your Woodcentral post, you click on ‘choose file’ above, and select the photo from wherever it’s stored on your computer—like from the download file. The photo then appears in the submitted post. I would be more specific, but the exact keystrokes depend somewhat on the computer operating system.