My old shooting board has been pretty trusty over the years.
Added note: The blue tape was added to adjust the angle when there was a little bit of movement from weather or what ever else may have been the cause.
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Lately I decided I wanted to rework it into an ambidextrous shooting board. I also wanted to make the platform lower to get more of the blade into action. The old platform was a piece of 3/4" thick material. The new platform is just a hair under 1/2" in thickness.
The old shooting board was disassembled. It was easy since nothing was glued. I decided to make a new 'hook' out of a piece of scrap left over from making a tile topped table recently. The piece was ripped so it was shallow enough to fit in either of my vises.
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The fence was made from a piece of the old hook. If you want to avoid unwanted holes in your bench either use plenty of scrap under your work or check the depth of your drill:
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A square is also used here to make sure everything is square.
The fence was made to be a bit proud of the platform and was chamfered on the back side.
Next a piece of scrap is tried and checked while trimming the fence:
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This is done on both sides.
A wedge at about 17º was cut to the same height as the fence to chamfer the bottom of some legs for another tile topped table:
Attachment 339291 It finally loaded! ;)
The wedge is held in place with tape so it can be moved out of the way.
This was used to chamfer around the bottom of the leg. I count the strokes to keep it even. Then the wedge is flipped up so the bottom can be shot square:
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The top of the leg is marked for center from the corners and the sides and then worked using the wedge to make a pyramid top:
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Just for fun the leg was stood up on the table and checked with a square:
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Sure to get a few more years out of this one.
jtk