Shooting board question(s)

Betsy,

Could you clamp the shooting board and box piece to a table top, as a unit?

I was thinking if you positioned the box piece, in place, on the shooting board then clamped the box piece, shooting board and table top all together with one clamp it might hold it securely enough to do what you need.

Lew

Betsy,
I have nothing to offer on the shooting board aspect of the question. I just built my first one a few weeks back, and am too much the novice to weigh in. On the posting question, however, I have noticed a similar difficulty of late with my Photobucket account (I’m a Macintosh guy, running OS X (10.4.11) on a PowerPC, using Firefox/3.0.7). I have just been highlighting the HTML code line and coping the line of code to the clipboard and pasting this into the blog/project/forum as the “copied” notification was not copying anything that would then subsequently paste.

Try Control-C, Control-V shortcuts (⌘-C, ⌘-V for Mac) or the Edit>Copy/Edit>Paste function in your browser to see that works for you as it does for me.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

I have always relied on double sided carpet tape; typically 2 inches wide (don’t use just any double sided tape).

I have found that on very small pieces I need to be careful of how much I use since the pieces may break before the tape lets go. I use a roller to flatten out and get the tape on one side then I remove the other side of the tape attach the piece and then apply pressure. The bigger the piece the more pressure.

Oh yes, make sure that there isn’t too much dust on either piece (easier said than done in a woodworking shop)!!!

-- Hans in San Jose; "I never met a board I didn't like!"

Thanks guys. Lew – I actually tried that with not much success – it was too cumbersom

Jose – I thought about carpet tape, but was worried about breaking my pieces. Some are pretty small. But I think I will give this a try and let you know how I come out.

Thanks again.

(Doug – I seem to be able to do the pictures now. It might have been that I needed to reboot my computer. Thanks)

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Hi Betsy

I now use a non-slip surface on the fences of the shooting boards I build. This is made of a non-slip powder that is added to a little marine varnish. You could substitute fine salt. Just sprinkle it on with a shaker so that it falls evenly.

Add this to the fence, then square the fence on the shooting board.

There are a few articles on my website about building and using shooting boards. Here is one ..

Setting Up and Using a Shooting Board

A recent board I made for a customer ..

The article is here.

Regards from Perth

Derek

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