The Carousel Shooting Board Fence

[Derek Cohen]

I have now completed a manual for building and installing this fence.

Enjoy and I hope some of you make one for yourself.

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/TheCarouselShootingBoardFence.html

Regards from Perth

Derek

[James Artibee]

Very nice, well written, I need to make a shooting board and yours looks great. I like the versatility. JIM

[Steve Dallas]

I have now completed a manual for building and installing this fence.

Enjoy and I hope some of you make one for yourself.

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/TheCarouselShootingBoardFence.html

Regards from Perth

Derek

It's very reminiscent of a miter gauge and one wonders if getting a system up and running reasonably quickly is the goal then mounting an aftermarket gauge on a board seems like a valid alternative. Seems like I've seen something like that done before - some tip from one of the woodworking magazines, though I can't recall which at this very moment.

[Derek Cohen]

Hi Steve

A mitre gauge looks similar but lacks the ability to add a sliding fence (without another subfence), and then you need to create a way to ensure rigidity when it is struck. Most of the gauges are cast aluminium with thin walls.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/Derek50/Tools%20that%20I%20have%20made/Shooting%20board/Carousel%20Shooting%20Board%20Fence/Mitrefence4.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/Derek50/Tools%20that%20I%20have%20made/Shooting%20board/Carousel%20Shooting%20Board%20Fence/Mitrefence3.jpg

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Steve Dallas]

Hi Steve

A mitre gauge looks similar but lacks the ability to add a sliding fence (without another subfence), and then you need to create a way to ensure rigidity when it is struck. Most of the gauges are cast aluminium with thin walls.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/Derek50/Tools%20that%20I%20have%20made/Shooting%20board/Carousel%20Shooting%20Board%20Fence/Mitrefence4.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/Derek50/Tools%20that%20I%20have%20made/Shooting%20board/Carousel%20Shooting%20Board%20Fence/Mitrefence3.jpg

Regards from Perth

Derek

I actually had something in mind more along these lines:

http://www.incra.com/product_miter_v27.htm

Or, do go really off the deep end:

http://www.incra.com/product_miter_1000se.htm

I guess there are other choices between the low-end in your picture and the higher end in my links. As to auxiliary fences - these are added to miter gauges all the time without much hassle.

[Derek Cohen]

Hi Steve

I have an Incra. It replaced the mitre gauge I posted. There is a big difference in price between the two! Not that it would be any easier to convert, but with the price of even the cheapest Incra you could buy (the V27 is $125), you would create a very expensive shooting board! :)

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Steve Dallas]

Hi Steve

I have an Incra. It replaced the mitre gauge I posted. There is a big difference in price between the two! Not that it would be any easier to convert, but with the price of even the cheapest Incra you could buy (the V27 is $125), you would create a very expensive shooting board! :)

Regards from Perth

Derek

Of course expensive is a relative term - value of one's time, other tools one owns, etc. And anyway, my post mentioned miter gauges available in between the pot metal one you posted and the Incra links I posted. There's something available for every pocketbook.

What plane are you using with your board?

[Cliff Polubinsky]

Steve,

Rather than using the whole guage, why not just use the fence?

I had made one of the evenfall style shooting boards and loved the flexibility it offered. Then I got to thinking that a stop would be nice to allow the shooting of identical sized pieces. And a micro adjust would be nice to allow sneaking up on a length. Kind of like what my 1000SE lets me do.

Rather than recreating the capabilities that the Incra fence has, why not just use the Incra fence on the board? I ordered a pair of the Build-It brackets to test the concept.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a313/cpolubin/ShootBd1_2916.jpg

Drilling the hole in the back bracket slightly larger allows the adjustment to square the fence.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a313/cpolubin/ShootBd2_2918.jpg

Next I'll make a sacrificial fence that's grooved to match the flip stop.

To get to the infinite angle capability the miter gauge would provide I'm considering building a board that uses T-Track instead of fixed holes to permit a wider range of angles. One track would parallel the ramp and the other would angle from the near right to the far left to cover everything from 90 degrees to 22 1/2. I'll see how that works once I can get some time to put one together. Derek's idea of putting ramps on both sides might work very nicely with that design.

Cliff

[Jim Kirkpatrick]

Derek, great post! You really ought to submit your great tutorials to FWW or the like and make some chingo off of it.
Cliff, that's a novel idea using an Incra fence but even though it's held off the edge of the business end of the board, I'd still get wiggy passing my iron so close to metal. Murphy's Law.

[Cliff Polubinsky]

Jim,

Since there would be a wooden sub-fence attached to the Incra you can move the metal fence as far from the ramp as you want. This is an existing board I used to test the idea and for this fence the pivot screw hole is too close to the ramp - at 45 degrees the fence projects into the ramp area. The actual version will have the pivot point a bit farther from the ramp or use T-Track.

Cliff