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A shooting board removes the sawblade marks from the end of a board and trues it up. Plus, you can adjust the length of the board in .001" increments. One question that always comes up about shooting boards is why the lane does not eat up the appliance shaving by shaving. The answer to this question is the plane itself. In a bench plane the blade doesn’t extend to the edges of the tool (otherwise it would be a rabbeting plane). This small land of metal by the mouth, which is where the sidewall joins the sole, prevents the plane from eating up the shooting board. While the first pass or two on a new shooting board will indeed remove a little material, after that the shooting board will be unmolested by the plane’s iron. Using a shooting board is quite simple once you train your muscles a bit. Just like with a bench hook, your off-hand is the clamp and needs to push the workpiece firmly against the fence. If you waver even a tiny bit, the work will be pushed away from the plane during the cut – spoiling the end. So I recommend putting some sticky-back sandpaper on the fence of the shooting board to help hold the work (#120-grit paper is good). Also, if you can clamp the work in place, all the better. Holdfasts are handy for this, especially when accuracy is critical. The other thing to learn is what to do with your dominant hand. You need to thrust forward with enough force to keep the tool in the cut. And you need to push the tool toward the work with enough force so that the blade doesn’t lift out of the cut. But you don’t want to tilt the tool – a common problem. One way to help improve the accuracy of a shooting board is to nail a little runner that will capture the plane between the runner and the platform. The downside to this is that you will only be able to use that plane with that shooting board. The upside is that the tool will be easier to control and will not drift out of the cut. — from “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” by Christopher Schwarz #The_anarchists_tool_chestNew stickers! Order a set via the link in our profile.One measure that provides a good indication of the lifespan of a tree species is the “root-to-shoot” ratio of seedling trees. Most trees have a root-to-shoot ratio of less than one, i.e., where the total mass of the seedling tree is 100 percent, then the mass of the roots will comprise less than 50 percent of the total – there are more shoots above ground than there are roots underground. The ratio of root-to-shoot of most oak seedlings ranges between four and six, i.e., between 17 percent and 25 percent of the seedling mass is above ground and between 75 percent and 83 percent is underground. Some oaks have a quite staggering ratio of one part above ground to 10 parts, or more, below. This makes the root systems of oaks quite exceptional in comparison to many other tree species, even those grown in similar geographical locations. — from “Cut & Dried: A Woodworker’s Guide to Timber Technology” by Richard Jones #cut_and_dried@RudeMechanic on Twitter
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I Feel You, Monsieur Roubo
“One should place a drawer at the end of the bench so that the workers can close up their minor tools like gouges, compasses, etc. There are even shops where the benches are finished with planks/panels all around [a closed … Continue reading
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The French Oak Roubo Project III
People of Earth: If you want to make a workbench that exceeds all your functional and aesthetic desires, I have but one recommendation: The French Oak Roubo Project III. The building session runs from Oct. 14-18 in Barnesville, Ga., in … Continue reading
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Another Award for the Deluxe Roubo Edition
At Lost Art Press, we don’t enter contests or seek awards for publishing, design, woodworking or… anything, really. (The reason we don’t do this is complicated. Buy me a bucket of beer some time, and I might tell you.) Despite … Continue reading
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Building ‘The Other Roubo Bookstand’
A week or two ago, I put up a short post and video about “The Other Roubo Bookstand,” a project taken from the plate 331 of André Jacob Roubo’s “l’Art du Menuisier,” scaled to hold the beautiful deluxe edition of the … Continue reading
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The Other Roubo Bookstand
No doubt many of you are familiar with the famous one-piece bookstand from plate 331 of Roubo’s “With All Precision Possible” popularized by Roy Underhill. This past week, we decided to build a nice bookstand for the shop copy of … Continue reading
Roubo on Upholstery
This is an excerpt from “With All the Precision Possible: Roubo on Furniture” by André-Jacob Roubo; translation by Donald C. Williams, Michele Pietryka-Pagán & Philippe Lafargue. So Roubo could not very well do a comprehensive book on furniture making without including some mention … Continue reading
Trailer for ‘Roubo Workbench: By Hand & Power’
Above is a trailer for our video “Roubo Workbench: By Hand & Power” that Will Myers and I shot earlier this year. If you are thinking about building a French workbench using a giant slab, you might find the 4-hour-long … Continue reading
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Update: ‘Roubo on Furniture Making’
Our warehouse has almost finished packing up all the domestic pre-publication orders for the deluxe version of “With All the Precision Possible: Roubo on Furniture Making.” The packaged books should be picked up and headed out to their final destinations … Continue reading
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Update on Shipping Deluxe ‘Roubo on Furniture Making’
We’re eager to ship out copies of the deluxe “Roubo on Furniture Making,” but are still waiting for the custom boxes to be delivered to our warehouse. Note: When I write “custom boxes” I am referring to cardboard shipping containers, … Continue reading
First Look: Deluxe ‘Roubo on Furniture’
After an astonishing amount of work from people on two continents – not to mention hundreds of thousands of dollars of investment – a surprise showed up at the front door today. It was a FedEx driver in a big … Continue reading
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