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Trevanion wrote:Is the blade cutting perfectly parallel to the track? If the base of the saw has been knocked (or was sent out a bit dodgy from factory) it's possible that the blade could be cutting at a skewed angle which could cause those kinds of results.
Craig Salisbury wrote:i did make a shooting board, and realised i suck at that.
Woodbloke wrote:Craig Salisbury wrote:i did make a shooting board, and realised i suck at that.
FWIW, I had an TS55 and a MFT and got rid of both of them. A shooter, if constructed correctly and used properly, is absolutely ideal for this sort of job. Over the decades I've built loads of the things and the best one by a bazillion light years is this bad boy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwYJhfChDdM
It's simple, it's easy to make, it's dead accurate and is easy to keep accurate and it just works brilliantly. Once you've made it, you'll wonder how you ever did any woodmangling without one - Rob
Craig Salisbury wrote:
ah thats the shooting board i made, alas the only hand plan i have is a low angle smoother.....we wont get into sharpening lol
Woodbloke wrote:Craig Salisbury wrote:
ah thats the shooting board i made, alas the only hand plan i have is a low angle smoother.....we wont get into sharpening lol
Cunning plan thwarted! You do of course need a half respectable hand plane to use on it and a (Veritas?) low angle smoother ain't it, but an old Record/Stanley No.5 or longer would be fine - Rob
Alf wrote:Given the size and bevel orientation of a mitre plane, I'm always fascinated as to why a bevel up smoother is no good for shooting. Happily I live in ignorance and found it worked absolutely fine, but I've often found you can do all sorts of things when you don't know it's not possible.
RogerS wrote:Did you check the position of the rail after the cut ? maybe it moved slightly? How is it clamped down?
Alf wrote:Forgive me, I'd forgotten the fine nuances in naming, gentlemen. I was thinking of mine, and that didn't allow for Veritas at all because it's a Lie-Nielsen. But my rhetorical questioning was directed more at the notion it's got to be a jack size plane or above. It might be a personal preference, but it's not a necessity.
Woodbloke wrote:Craig Salisbury wrote:i did make a shooting board, and realised i suck at that.
FWIW, I had an TS55 and a MFT and got rid of both of them. A shooter, if constructed correctly and used properly, is absolutely ideal for this sort of job. Over the decades I've built loads of the things and the best one by a bazillion light years is this bad boy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwYJhfChDdM
It's simple, it's easy to make, it's dead accurate and is easy to keep accurate and it just works brilliantly. Once you've made it, you'll wonder how you ever did any woodmangling without one - Rob
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