Popular Woodworking 2006-12 № 159, страница 53
USING THE SHOOTING BOARD A GOOD PLANE FOR SHOOTING When you use the shooting board for the first time, the protruding plane iron will cut a small rabbet on the fence and so automatically line up the rabbet with the stop. The edge corner of the plane sole will then be guided by the fence platform. To use the shooting board, lay a plane on its side in the rabbet as shown and slice off a few shavings at both 45° and 90°. Though a regular bench plane will work well with your shooting board, it is my firm belief that using a low-angle plane (sometimes called a "bevel-up" plane) of any type will really refine the cut surface of the wood exponentially, producing both a perfectly planed surface and an accurate cut. I use two low-angle planes by Veritas, both of which work extremely well, but the weight and heft of the low-angle jack plane, combined with its 3/i6"-thick iron and the accurate machining throughout the plane itself make this tool my first choice for shooting wood of all types. I should reiterate at this point that a dull plane is extremely counterproductive to accuracy. Even though you may make a perfect shooting board, with all the angles and stops accurately cut, you will not be able to produce the crisp, clean, precise cuts you desire without a well-sharpened plane iron. When a cutting iron dulls through use it actually becomes rounded at the very cutting edge. Instead of slicing cleanly through the wood in a continuous single plane, the cutting iron itself causes the plane to incrementally rise as it continues through the cut and so produces a round or hollow instead of a truly flat surface. — PS If you find your miter or square cuts are less than perfect, adjust the wall of the stop's recess with a machined miter: machined on the left, handplaned on sharp knife against a square or miter square. the right. 70 Popular Woodworking December 2006 |
