Let's talk joining top and back plates. Shooting boards
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:24 pm
What do you use, and how do you ready your top and back plates for joining?
I use a shooting board, which I've just redesigned, along with a 19" squared and trued tubing, with 100g psa sandpaper.
Part of the problem with my old shooting board was clamping evenly and quickly, plus it wasn't long enough.
I made a new board that's 24" long. I installed a strip of wood which the boards being readied, lay against, to ensure that the boards being readied, are always lined up the same. I also installed a secondary strip, that's 24" long, and 1 1/4" wide, which I've put 2 bolts with wingnuts, which easily clamps my work.
The shooting board is wider, so that I can easily accommodate wide boards, but I keep a long strip of wood, so that if I have wood that's much narrower, I simply slide a piece behind it, pushing the narrow boards out. In fact, if you look at the photo, you'll see a white strip of wood, that I've placed behind the rosewood, because the rosewood was a bit narrow.
I found the tubing on eBay. It's guaranteed to be within .0001" flat on all sides.
If my jigs look a little ragged, it's because I use whatever scrap wood I have laying around.
I use a shooting board, which I've just redesigned, along with a 19" squared and trued tubing, with 100g psa sandpaper.
Part of the problem with my old shooting board was clamping evenly and quickly, plus it wasn't long enough.
I made a new board that's 24" long. I installed a strip of wood which the boards being readied, lay against, to ensure that the boards being readied, are always lined up the same. I also installed a secondary strip, that's 24" long, and 1 1/4" wide, which I've put 2 bolts with wingnuts, which easily clamps my work.
The shooting board is wider, so that I can easily accommodate wide boards, but I keep a long strip of wood, so that if I have wood that's much narrower, I simply slide a piece behind it, pushing the narrow boards out. In fact, if you look at the photo, you'll see a white strip of wood, that I've placed behind the rosewood, because the rosewood was a bit narrow.
I found the tubing on eBay. It's guaranteed to be within .0001" flat on all sides.
If my jigs look a little ragged, it's because I use whatever scrap wood I have laying around.