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Making a Luthier's Shooting Board

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Uploaded by on May 27, 2009

Quick tutorial on making a shooting board sized for instrument making. Platform is 9" x 28" x 1/2" birch ply; base is 7-1/2" x 36" x 3/4" birch ply; wedges are 27" x 1" x 3/4" poplar or pine; fence is 7-1/2" x 1" x 1.5" poplar or laminated birch ply; cleat is 12" x 1-1/2" x 3/4". Drawings will be available at www.greenridgeguitars.com as soon as I have time to produce them. Thanks go to the usual suspects.

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  • Hi there,

    is there not an issue with the plane blade cutting into the edge of the runway side?

    about to build one of these but cant get my head around that bit

  • @nickjohnwarner The plane rides on the stock being joined - the edge of the platform is not a stop - it just holds the work.

  • Built your shooting board the other day really works great, good design.

    Thanks

  • @jknow1565 Great! Hope it works well for you!

  • Thanks for this Video, Todd ! I built your board yesterday and it works beautiful !

    Cheers, Martin

  • Great to hear - hope it continues to work well for you.

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  • ank you for your excellent video and description. I made one over the weekend and it works like a charm.

  • Hi there,

    is there not an issue with the plane blade cutting into the edge of the runway side?

    about to build one of these but cant get my head around that bit

  • do you end of cutting into the shooting board with the planer?

    Do you have advice your using a shooting board to taper a strip of wood?

  • @biggestclaptonfan

    the ramp insures that you are using the most of your planeblade - not just one part of the planeblade. If you use a MDF sheet (or any other flat surface), then you would use the same point on the planeblade every time.... Hope you can see it :-)

  • Hi there, i currently use a regular shooting (without a ramp) can you tell me what purpose the ramp serves?

    Thanks, Paul

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