shooting board help

What are your diagonal measurements?

How are you registering the long grain on the second side? If you were to lay a framing square against the stop on the shooting board and register your good side to the square, you might be better off. Trying to register the long grain from the end grain against the stop would be nearly impossible. Normally shooting boards are used to square end grain.

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I believe you might need another shooting board for your edge grain. Something like this:

http://www.lie-nielsen.com/pdf/Shooting_Board_And_Fixtures.pdf

Rich;)

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when measuring diagonals everything is perfect, but when i take a square to the board onlly 3/4 sides are square. when registering the long grain on the second side i use the end grain that i just shot.

Jeff, I use a shooting board ALOT. I never get the first long grain squared up on the shooting board (SB). I get it squared with a jointer plane and a long straight edge to make sure that edge is good to go. Once I have that done, I use the shooting board to square both end grain sides (using a square to ensure everything is correct. Once those are square, I will square up the other long grain side.

Also, you must ensure your fence on the SB is square. ABSOLUTELY square. If not, it will cause an awful lot of aggravation (been there, done that!)

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Jeff,

You can’t have perfect diagonals and one corner out of square. I’m wondering if maybe you’re getting a rocking effect while planing that makes your sides not flat, try setting an straight edge on each side to see if everything is flat. If your end grain sections are short and the long grain sections longer, it will be hard to keep the end grain flat against the stop causing rocking and a less than flat surface. I would try long side, end, end, and then the last long side, possibly clamping or screwing a stop parallel to the plane direction to keep the board from pivoting.

Good luck,
Rutager

OK, I checked the checked the diagonals again an found out that i am a 32nd off square.

This is so frustrating! I think i’ve tried everythiung. I tried jointing one edge first, then suaring both ends on the shooting board and shooting long grain., I checked everything, fence is square to the plane. I also made sure the board was absolutely flat so i would get no rocking motion . I even built another shooting board . Nothing has worked .

All you ever wanted to know about shooting boards …

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/Setting%20Up%20and%20Using%20a%20Shooting%20Board4.html

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/Advances%20in%20a%20ramped%20shooting%20board.html

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/ShootingforPerfection.html

Rather than making a fixed fence, build a little fine adjustability into it. On a shooting board fence such as here ..

Make the far end bolt hole capable of a little movement back-and-forth.

Regards from Perth

Derek

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Paul Sellers shows how to make a Shooting Board
http://youtu.be/-Ypbvcxb-8M