Veritas Shooting Board Fence

[glenn bradley]

As part of a recent project I had to do some shooting on some parts. I figured why not unbox that fence I got . . . uh . . . er . . . did I really get this for Christmas and it's September!?!.

There's a lot of stuff in here???

I strip the shooting board I have chosen for this fence.

I notice the detent plate (index plate?) is pretty gnarly.

Yep, it sure needed a good cleaning.

The vernier markings were almost invisible. I contacted Lee Valley and they have never let me down yet on the occasional problem.

If you get a super bright light just right you can see what is supposed to be on it. Just looks like a bad strike during manufacture.

Anyway, you drill a 3/4" hole to accept the pivot point.

I like to use the actual hardware to set the depth. This brass piece gets epoxied in place.


A transfer punch lets me get the other hole positioned correctly.

Again I use the hardware to set the depth.

I set the threaded insert.


The rest of the assembly is pretty straight forward and it works like a champ.

 

[Kerry Burton]

Hey Glenn - some questions about the part with the "vernier markings":

• Where / how is it used? I couldn't detect it in the final photo...
• Did you figure out a way to permanently highlight the markings, or do you not adjust the fence often enough to worry about it?

 

[glenn bradley]

@Kerry Burton - Sorry I never closed the loop on this. Lee Valley sent me s second unit and a return shipping label. I swapped the vernier and some other small part I don't recall. marked the bad ones and returned the rest of the second unit. The vernier is used for micro-adjusting angles if required. If you are going to micro-adjust one part you may need the opposing or mating part to also be adjusted. The vernier fastens to the metal base of the fence and is aligned for zero as shown.