Planing/Sawing Fence/Batten: Kicked Up a Notch

[Phil Gaudio]

The goal was to create a batten that could be used for both cross grain planing (e.g., Dado Plane) or sawing that could be used anywhere on the bench without needing clamps. I decided to employ the Veritas Inset Vise as a built-in clamp for the batten. The vise was inset into the end of the batten and works in concert with Veritas Bench Pups/Dogs (?) to allow the width capacity to be adjusted from 4" to 24" (arbitrary based on my needs). I have used this with a Dado plane and for guiding a crosscut for making a dado, and it worked will. I will be adding an auxiliary fence to allow saw registration for cutting sliding dovetails.

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[Tom M King]

I like it a lot. Thanks for posting!

[Tony Wilkins]

Cool idea. I may have to steal it.

[Jimmy Harris]

That's creative!

[Kevin Adams]

You never cease to amaze me, that engineer’s mind at work! I may have to commission you to build me one! And look at you using wooden planes vs the screaming router!!

Kevin

[Phil Gaudio]

Ha! I am thinking this will be in the next Lee Valley catalog

You never cease to amaze me, that engineer’s mind at work! I may have to commission you to build me one! And look at you using wooden planes vs the screaming router!!

Kevin

[Scott Winners]

This is a gorgeous thing of obvious utility. Nice going Phil, thanks for sharing.

[Derek Cohen]

Hi Phil

There are a couple of modifications you could make to your wonderful fence.

The first is to have one side square and the other angled for sliding dovetails ...



The underside of mine has sandpaper for non-slip, and hold down keeps it very stable ..



Sawing for sliding dovetails (but this could also be for a dado). The rare earth magnets in the face hold the plate to the fence ...





Dado ...



Regards from Perth

Derek

[Phil Gaudio]

Thanks all for the kind words and suggestions. I wanted to mention that Rev. 0 of this device used a much less expensive piece of hardware, again from Lee Valley: the Wonder Pup. Not as slick as the inset vise, but it can be made to work in much the same way.
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