Shooting Board #1 - Variation on a Couple of themes

[Joe A Faulkner]

This is my first shooting board. I borrowed ideas from various boards that have been featured here, including Derek's boards from this thread (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...Shooting-Board). I also liked the idea of having a loosely coupled fence which I borrowed from Timothy Rousseau's (Fine Woodworking) you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwYJhfChDdM.

I used MDF for the base and the ramp and decided to wrap the edges in some scrap and to laminate the surfaces with 1/4 beech plywood. I'll be using a #7 as my shooter for now.

[Pat Barry]

That should get the job done very nicely Joe!

[Derek Cohen]

Hi Joe

The board looks good. The only change I would suggest is the round off (or chamfer) the trailing edge of the fence, as it is going to spelch (break out).



Regards from Perth

Derek

[Trevor Goodwin]

Nice!

It looks like you haven't used it yet because you've still got lacquer the vertical track and I can't see a step. Be careful you don't split the dovetail end grain when you run the plane into them for this first time!