Jim Koepke
01-14-2011, 1:24 AM
An idea came to mind for a project that involves octagons.
So it seemed a donkey ear for the shooting board might be in order. About halfway through it was realized this would not work with my present shooting board since I was going to shoot edge grain and not end grain. So a search through the scrap bin turned up an old piece of oak that came from a late 19th century pump organ my brother and I dismantled.
177803
Good thing I got to it before SWMBO. She saw it today and took an interest in it. I showed her that it was already cut for use.
177802
The "ear" was made by cutting some 22-1/2° angles on some scrap using an old Craftsman miter box. I tuned this up years ago and it is actually a nice little tool. The cut pieces were sized and then attached to the ramp. The fence was cut by hand and attached with screws. On things like this, gluing is saved for later if ever. It always seems to need adjustments at first or over time with humidity changes. The angle was off just a hair. So an old business card was cut up for shims and that was enough.
177805
The mounting slots were cut in the oak using a saw, chisels and a router plane. At first my thoughts were to mount this permanently to the base. Then it came to me that maybe similar pieces can be made to cut 45° and 30° angles for other projects. My hopes are this will become an on going and repeating project. That will be a different thread.
177804
The pieces have to be trimmed a touch to the same length. The edges meet up, the shadows from some pieces being a hair long make it look like their may be a miss at the edges. That is not the case.
jtk
So it seemed a donkey ear for the shooting board might be in order. About halfway through it was realized this would not work with my present shooting board since I was going to shoot edge grain and not end grain. So a search through the scrap bin turned up an old piece of oak that came from a late 19th century pump organ my brother and I dismantled.
177803
Good thing I got to it before SWMBO. She saw it today and took an interest in it. I showed her that it was already cut for use.
177802
The "ear" was made by cutting some 22-1/2° angles on some scrap using an old Craftsman miter box. I tuned this up years ago and it is actually a nice little tool. The cut pieces were sized and then attached to the ramp. The fence was cut by hand and attached with screws. On things like this, gluing is saved for later if ever. It always seems to need adjustments at first or over time with humidity changes. The angle was off just a hair. So an old business card was cut up for shims and that was enough.
177805
The mounting slots were cut in the oak using a saw, chisels and a router plane. At first my thoughts were to mount this permanently to the base. Then it came to me that maybe similar pieces can be made to cut 45° and 30° angles for other projects. My hopes are this will become an on going and repeating project. That will be a different thread.
177804
The pieces have to be trimmed a touch to the same length. The edges meet up, the shadows from some pieces being a hair long make it look like their may be a miss at the edges. That is not the case.
jtk