I managed to cut a V-groove in the base of my new case/long-grain miter shooting board. I started by making a shallow dado with a plow plane and then set up a guide so that riding the side of the shoulder plane against the right edge of the dado and the top edge of the guide would create a V-groove with a 45° slant. It worked, but not without a few surprises; as I made more and more passes, the edges supporting the shoulder plane started wearing out thus slightly changing my angle; also, my starting guide was too thick and as the shoulder plane started lowering into the groove, its side could no longer reach the top of the guide, so I had to change to a thinner guide. In the end, I had to refine the groove free-hand with the shoulder plane, but I am pretty happy with the result. #MiterShootingBoard #ShootingBoard #WorkbenchAppliance #HandToolsOnly #Woodworking BTW, the initial dado has to be a little deeper than its width; otherwise, the shoulder plane might start riding on the bottom of the dado rather than against its edge and change the angle of the resulting groove. Another point; the inner side of the groove still shows a piece of the initial dado. That is not a problem for this application because once in use, the iron of the shooting plane will actually shave off the top bit of that inner side.
The miter shooting board is not even finished and it is already making itself useful; I am using the base and the two 45° fences to hold the top guide (which eventually will end up on top of the fences) so I can comfortably plane its edge to a 45° angle. I tried other ways of planing this 45° angle, but they all involved holding the plane at 45° and I found that very tiring and hard to make small corrections. Being able to hold the plane as usual really made a big difference. #MiterShootingBoard #ShootingBoard #WorkbenchAppliance #HandToolsOnly #Woodworking
