Russell Sansom
10-09-2011, 3:01 AM
In a recent thread about shooting 2" stock, I declared that I use a broad variety of shooting boards in my work. I wasn't able to get out to the shop to photograph most of them, but here's a miter / shooting vise I've had for eons. Pictured also is my beloved Bedrock 608c that I picked up at a garage sale for $20 back in the 70's. It might sound funny to say this, but it has a ton of personality. The two of us have spend hundreds of hours together since those early days. It's the perfect plane for this job.
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I see these miter vises around from time to time. For as bulky as it is around the shop, I can't picture finishing this kind of miter any other way. I realize for some it is a stretch to consider this the same as a shooting board. In the previous thread I was just trying to suggest that there isn't a fixed form for these kinds of appliances...and here's a planing jig that easily handles stock thicker than 2."
After a year of struggling in 1978, I awoke one morning with a sudden insight into hand joinery. This chess board was the first piece I built after that awakening. The tiny ogee molding around its top was created with a homemade scratch stock. The cherry border is a hair over 1/4" wide. The one joint I photographed here was the "4th" miter to go into place. It's about 1/64" short, as you can see, but the lines in the molding match up well, and that's what the eye sees. The miter shooter/vise makes for very positive control of the fitting process. With some shimming, the vise can do a much broader range of angles outside of 45-degrees
.209605 The rim of this board shows signs of the many chess and checkers battles it has been involved in. I'm very happy with how it has aged.
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Front and back of the same miter
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I see these miter vises around from time to time. For as bulky as it is around the shop, I can't picture finishing this kind of miter any other way. I realize for some it is a stretch to consider this the same as a shooting board. In the previous thread I was just trying to suggest that there isn't a fixed form for these kinds of appliances...and here's a planing jig that easily handles stock thicker than 2."
After a year of struggling in 1978, I awoke one morning with a sudden insight into hand joinery. This chess board was the first piece I built after that awakening. The tiny ogee molding around its top was created with a homemade scratch stock. The cherry border is a hair over 1/4" wide. The one joint I photographed here was the "4th" miter to go into place. It's about 1/64" short, as you can see, but the lines in the molding match up well, and that's what the eye sees. The miter shooter/vise makes for very positive control of the fitting process. With some shimming, the vise can do a much broader range of angles outside of 45-degrees
.209605 The rim of this board shows signs of the many chess and checkers battles it has been involved in. I'm very happy with how it has aged.
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Front and back of the same miter
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