Mark Kosmowski
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Ken viciously twisted my arm to get me to go with him to the recent woodworking show in Saratoga. While we were there, we had the chance to see a live demonstration of a shooting board. I think this demonstration / seminar was of far, far more significance to me than to Ken. Anyways, the speaker had brought his demo board, which he had made from a particle board.
Ken got talking to me later and mentioned that he'd be concerned of such an engineered material prematurely wearing out the plane iron that time and effort was taken to sharpen.
So I was thinking to make one from some wide ash I have (11" or so).
I started jointing my ash plank Thursday, but then today got to wondering if seasonal movement might end up making the fence not perfectly square over time. I'm going to also be making 45 degree miter and bevel attachments for my shooting board in order to be making miter joinery, so am now wondering if I might be served better with a particle board shooting board and just breaking down and learning to sharpen my irons.
What do the rest of you think?
Ken got talking to me later and mentioned that he'd be concerned of such an engineered material prematurely wearing out the plane iron that time and effort was taken to sharpen.
So I was thinking to make one from some wide ash I have (11" or so).
I started jointing my ash plank Thursday, but then today got to wondering if seasonal movement might end up making the fence not perfectly square over time. I'm going to also be making 45 degree miter and bevel attachments for my shooting board in order to be making miter joinery, so am now wondering if I might be served better with a particle board shooting board and just breaking down and learning to sharpen my irons.
What do the rest of you think?