{"id":6668,"date":"2020-06-27T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T04:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2020-06-26T23:36:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T03:36:42","slug":"longer-long-grain-shooting-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/27\/longer-long-grain-shooting-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Longer long-grain shooting board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My new jig for long-grain shooting<\/strong> accommodates workpieces up to 36″, a big increase from the old jig’s capacity of 24″. I was motivated by a few occasions when I had to use the somewhat awkward setup of clamping a long workpiece to a support board and running the plane on the benchtop.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have found that shooting a three-foot long piece is really not a problem with a good setup. And the big jig imposes no disadvantages<\/strong> for shooting much shorter pieces.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My 10\/31\/19 post<\/a> is a discussion of long-grain shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Construction<\/strong> is simple from 3\/4″ MDF: The workpiece platform is 6″ wide on top of the base, which is 9″ wide, to make a 3″-wide plane runway that is covered with thick PSA UHMW plastic. I like the Lie-Nielsen #9 but any bench plane would work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workpiece is controlled<\/strong> from the front by the end stop, and from the side with clamped scraps. I find no need for an elaborate, screw-mounted permanent lateral clamp board because while it would offer some convenience, it would also limit the functional range of the jig. Top (downward) control is supplied by your hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When shooting a narrow workpiece<\/strong>, such as a door stile, which might temporarily have a convex or concave non-working edge, there is the danger of the workpiece flexing against the straight edge of the lateral control board. The solution, shown above<\/strong>, is to use two separate lateral control boards, each butted against a section of the (non-straight or suspect) non-working edge of the workpiece.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cleat<\/strong> at the right end of the jig is an afterthought (you know what I mean: “Doh!”) that allows the jig to be clamped with dogs with a conveniently minimal opening of the tail vise, which is then tightened.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It works beautifully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My new jig for long-grain shooting accommodates workpieces up to 36″, a big increase from the old jig’s capacity of 24″. I was motivated by a few occasions when I had to use the somewhat awkward setup of clamping a long workpiece to a support board and running the plane on the benchtop.\u00a0 I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jigs-and-fixtures","category-techniques","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}