Mitre Shooting Board. Essential Woodworking Jig for Box Making!

perfect [Music] what's happening everyone welcome back to the workshop i hope you're all doing well now in this video i'm going to make a dedicated motor shooting board i have made one before actually one of my most popular videos was the five woodworking jigs that i did and this is an attachment for a shooting board it was onto a standard shooting board for doing monitors works well but it's a little bit cumbersome and it's a little bit harder especially when you're doing delicate small pieces if you're doing small box making that kind of thing so i decided to make a dedicated monitored shooting board so that's what this video is going to be all about it's a nice one it's relatively simple to make and put together it's good and sturdy it really supports the plane so we have a 45 degree block that the plane runs on so the weight of the plane tends to keep it at 45. it's easy be accurate with it which is nice and it's also good for doing delicate little pieces so if you want to do small little monitors for little small decorative boxes things like that this one will do it and also we'll do larger boxes as well so that's what this is going to be about there's gonna be a part two to this video as well where i do a different style or different take on this one but we're gonna keep it to the more basic one to start with so let's jump on and get in and build this one okay let's crack on with the project now i want to start with the most simple shooting board first it's kind of based on a standard shooting board so i have a couple of videos already on making multiple woodworking jigs if you guys want to check them out i'll link them below in description i made this a kind of standard shooting board in one of those videos it's just completely made from plywood it's going to be the exact same thing except we're going to have a 45 degree edge on the reference edge here and we're also going to have a 45 degree block for our plane to run on so other than that the construction is pretty similar i'm going to be using some half inch birch ploy that's just what i have in the shop i have a couple of offcuts and we're going to use that and i'm also going to be using some of this red oak now this is salvaged hardwood flooring so i've got a couple of bags of this stuff out of a skip i've cleaned it up it's a really nice piece it's a always makes me wonder how people can throw stuff like this out but that's to my benefit so we're going to be using that to make our 45 degree running block and our fence out of so let's crack on first we need to do is get this cut up so i have a piece that's already cut square i just happen to have it and it's a pretty good length so it's 445ml by 445 are 17.5 inches by 17 and a half inches and i'm going to be using my five and a half plane on this shooting board so that's actually a decent enough size i'm not going to be doing anything much bigger than say maybe six to eight inches of boxes so this would be more than big enough to do what we want so that's going to be our base piece then we've got a piece to go on top of that that has our 45 degree edge which we have to make sure we get exactly right so let's do that okay so like i said we have our base piece we just need to cut our piece to go on top of this so i'm just going to start with a truing cut because i want to be as accurate as i possibly can so i'm just going to put this against my fence run a true and cut down here then i can put that against my fence for the rest of my cuts so let's get on and start with that now i'm going to be using my mft table and track saw here because like i said i want to make this as accurate as i possibly can but if you had a table saw or another means of cutting straight edges and keeping everything square that's what you need to use so a true and cut down here to start let's do it okay just put a truing cut in that square this board of it so it's easier to work with now let's decide on how wide we make our top piece so like i said this is the base piece we're going to put a piece on top of this our plane is going to run on this edge so i've just measured in about 320 millimeters that's going to be our top or about 12 and a half inches so that's what our pieces that we're going to be monitoring rest on so that's a good size top for making different size boxes and it gives us plenty of room out here for our 45 degree running track for our plane to run on so let's cut this piece to 320 millimeters nice and simple [Music] okay there's our two pieces i just need to cut this one to the correct length now so that's the same length as my bottom piece and i'm going to do that by setting up the stuff on my fence [Music] i'll just set up my fence and i'm not exactly up with the end of my track just like that pointing down my fence and that's my measurement okay so there's our baseboard and our top board cut nice and simple so far we have a nice space for our plane to run in and this is a good white top to support our piece now this is where we have to begin to get a little bit more critical this actually has to be quite exact so i know i have a reference edge here this is going to be my edge and i'm going to keep square to my face it's also going to be the edge i'm going to put my 45 degree cut in now and i also have a good edge here that i know was referenced off this edge to go against my fence that's important because i want to keep this cut now perfectly straight once i put this edge back against my fence now like i said with a 45 degree cut to put in this piece so i've beveled over my tracks off to 45 degrees now never uh rely on the markings on your machine especially when you're trying to be critical because they do get out of whack and you do have to readjust them from time to time so i've just taken a known 45 this one is pretty accurate i've just put it on the base plate of the track saw i've put it up against the blade making sure that i'm in between the teeth now the track saw is completely plugged out and not powered up here so don't worry i can put my hands near the blade now that's exactly at 45 degrees there and i'm a little bit past 45 degrees on my actual marker so i've locked that down now i know i'm exactly at 45 degrees so now i'm happy to make this cut so i have a good straight edge which is perfectly square to this edge that's going to go against the fence i'm going to run our 44 degree cut in this let's do that okay so i'm just getting set up to make the cut here now we want to make sure that we get this exactly right like i said just going to make sure we clamp the board it's against my fence i know that this table is perfectly square so everything is set up with the dogs now i have my tracks all beveled over now the thing to remember when you bevel over a track saw like this is that all the weight is now to this side and it can fall off so just make sure that you keep pressure on this plate because if that tilts slightly obviously you're changing the angle you can see it's tilting up there now some track saws do lock themselves on i can actually tighten these down a little bit more to help me with that but we don't want to tighten them so much that we can't actually push the tracks off so that should be good a little bit too tight there but uh like i said just keep a pressure on the plate make sure that it doesn't tilt over and you should be good to go okay let's make the cut okay ready to make the cautious wanna check make sure nothing is impeding the saw and this is gonna go smoothly everything is against the fence everything is still nice and square everything is good the angles are correct so let's make the cut like i said we have to be a little bit critical here so it's always a good idea just to check everything before we do the final cut there we go happy days that's our 45 we just checked that now make sure we're 100 happy with that and that should be good then to fix to our top okay so i just checked our cut and it is pretty good it's actually exact the whole way now which is exactly what we want so that is absolutely perfect from what i can see from my uh 45 degree square there happy days now we're going to fix this piece to the bottom piece just like that this is nice and simple this doesn't have to be critical we don't have to worry about that it's just a case of glue and screw this so just like the last shooting board i made i'm going to put some counter sunk screws in the bottom just like that clear two pieces and put some screws in it will make cleats tend to go on the bottom screw them on and then we need to get the fence on and the fence is the critical part because that has to stay perfectly square now to this edge here so i get on make the cleats screw this together and when we jump back in when all that's done because that's nice and simple and it's only covering all ground anyway so let's get on i'll do this and then we make the fence right so i have the top on and i have the cleat on so let's do the boring stuff off camera like i said it's like exactly the same as the other shooting board so we just have some countersunk screws here just to screw on our top some counter strong screws for our cleat that's just to catch the back of our workbench a little bit of glue underneath and that holds this whole thing together just like that now the fence is the next part we want to get on so like i said i've been using some of this oak flooring so i've milled the piece up i've just taken it to the miter saw put a 45 degree cut in one end then i've just drilled out some oversized holes so a forstner bit first and then a eight mil hole the whole way through so that will allow for a little washer just to sit down in there just like that i can put a wood screw through it and because the hole is oversized that'll give me a little bit of wiggle room to adjust this and make sure that it's a hundred percent square so this is the part we want to be critical with now so when i fit that on my shooting board right about there i want to make sure that i'm perfectly square with this edge here now it's a little bit hard to get a square along a monitored edge but i'm just going to feed along this edge make sure the two of them are exactly lined up because i know my mother saw is exactly square and i kept these two edges perfectly parallel so i'm going to square off this edge just like that with my engineer square it's the squarest square i have and we're going to fix this in place and like i said i have a little bit of adjustment so we'll do a couple of tests cuts with this we'll check for squareness and then we can adjust our fence a little bit either way if we're any way else so like i said this one is critical now so we need to make sure that this is perfectly square with this so let's get this screwed on right let's get the fence on now like i said we have to keep this perfectly square this is all about accuracy here but we have a little adjustment so i'm just going to feed along this edge make sure that those two edges are perfectly aligned i know that's not 100 accurate but it will get me very very close then i'm going to use my engineer square just to hold this fence perfectly square and i should be good to go so that edge is perfect i'm perfectly lined up with this edge on my engineer square i have a screw in the center just to start off so um we can adjust the fence either way so i'm going to screw that home just like that make sure we keep everything perfectly square and we get our other screw in and like i said we have a bit of wiggle room here so i have a couple of mail of adjustment either way because we drilled some oversized holes so we can do a test cut and then we can adjust our fence to make sure we're 100 accurate let's lock that one down and the final one then so lock our fence in place you can just reference that hdr that looks perfect from both sides and everything is a squared up so that's our fence on and like i said we do a final adjustment now when we have this assembled now we have to get on and make the runner 45 for our plane let's do that all right guys i want to make a running block now for the hand plane again we have to be as accurate as we can be here this is going to be caught at a 45 degree angle the plane and will sit on that and run at 45 degrees to our work piece it should run also square to our work piece so we get a nice monitored edge now this again is just somewhat salvaged red oak flooring i've just glued or laminated tree pieces of it together into a block and i'm going to cut this now at 45 and that's going to run against this edge here which will keep this nice and square to our fence and our plane like i said we'll run along this now a table saw would be ideal here you could just run this through at a 45 degree angle i'm going to do that on my bandsaw and then i might finish it off with a hand plane or on my jointer or my planer running along the fence just to get that nice and smooth it doesn't have to have a parallel edge both sides but this angle must be 44 degrees the whole way along its length i'm going to check and be 100 sure that that is the case and this will be a reference edge then that we will put this against so let's get on and do that with a difficult enough cut to do on the bandsaw here now so let's do it okay guys i'm all set up to make the cut at 45 degrees again checked everything to make sure that i'm 100 accurate that everything is at 45 degrees i have my fence set i have my bandsaw set i have my fitter board set so we're good to go let's get on and make the call [Music] [Music] so [Music] okay guys we have the 45 in our block and that actually turned out pretty well a slight little wobble in the end of the cut but it didn't do any harm so just checking all the way along it and we are exactly 45 now obviously the bandsaw leaves a little bit of a rougher coat so i'm just going to hit this with the hand plane very lightly just get a nice smooth face for the plane to run on and checking that we're maintaining that 45 degree angle the whole time because that is absolutely critical so a couple of strokes in the hand plane and we should be good alright guys there we go a nice planed face nice and smooth and just checking that we're a hundred percent the whole way along that we've no high spots no low spots and if we do see any daylight under the ruler we can just take it out actually a little high spot right there let's give that a little hit make sure we flatten that out and that is pretty good there so i'm pretty happy with that we can now get this fixed to our shooting board okay guys a little bit of adjustment at the hand plane and we have a good 45 degree angle and i've checked it now and it's absolutely perfect so i've just screwed on the runner for the hand plane now i've not glued this in place because you want to keep checking this over time to make sure that it's still at the correct angle i saw if three screws in line here then i have one just step back so you can put some pressure on the front of the 45 with the three screws here or you can pull it back a touch with the one screw in the middle on this part and that will give you a little bit of adjustment and you can also shim this up to get it exactly 45 if something goes a little bit off on you as well so there is a small bit of adjustability in that building it this way now let me get you in for a close-up i'll show you the exact angle okay just give you a quick little visual reference here i have my check box set up at zero so this is where the work piece will be sitting now i have three screws into the front of the 45 like i said and i have one in the middle at the back so we can pull it a little bit this way or push it back a little this way if we need some adjustment if we don't get our 45 exact but there you go i've zero it now on where our work piece will be sitting if i put this on here just like this there we go exactly bang on 45 degrees which is exactly what we want and like i said we have a little bit of adjustment either way so that's a happy days right there so we're good to go alright guys we're all assembled checked and roughly tuned up so i'm just going to get a little bit of machine wax or paste wax on this just to help the plane just shoot along there a little bit more freely and so i'll just rub that in and should help our plane glide nicely now we need to check that our fence is 100 square we know that we're good here we know that this is at 45 we know that we're reference along this edge so just might have to do a small adjustment in our fence just a couple of smaller pieces of heli here i'm going to put that against it i'm going to check so we're going to check our 45 make sure it is actually 45. and shoot this and then we'll see how square we are to the side that's against the fence okay so just looking at the piece i can see that i'm just ever so slightly proud on this end now it's only an absolute fraction here so we just need to bring this end of the fence a little bit this way just a touch so i'm just with a really sharp pencil i'm just actually going to put a pencil line here and it's it's literally going to be just the width of that pencil line of an adjustment that we need to make so it's going to loosen the screws just the front here just going to pull that slightly just over that pencil line and tighten them back down and that should be all the adjustment we need now let's shoot another piece and see okay guys so i've made the adjustment to the fence and that is perfectly square along this edge now which is happy days indeed it was actually back this way it needed to go so you can see the pencil line it might come on camera but it was maybe half the width of a pencil line it needed to move this way so with that correction made we are perfectly square along that edge and our monitors are matching up beautifully they are now so we have a perfect 90 degree and we have really flush no gap moistures so that's really nice for making little small boxes or even larger boxes we can do on this now so we can do long voyagers rather than say picture frame moistures on this jig there you go okay guys so there we go one more shooting board complete now it's a lot easier to use like i said at the start of the video then this original design so this was just an attachment for a standard shooting board that i had made it works it does work well but it's a little bit cumbersome this one supports the plane so the plane sits at a 45 degree angle the weight of the plane is essentially doing all the work on the angle and you can just hold your piece especially small delicate pieces against the fence and it's very very easy to shoot them even larger pieces if you're doing larger boxes you can do that as well so it's a nice easy jig to use now again it's all about being accurate with these things the more accurate you can be the better your jig will turn out the better the results you will get on those motors so again make sure that your face or your edge of your fence is perfectly 90 degrees to this make sure you get your angles 45 exactly right again don't worry you can always shim this up or down if it's a few degrees out you can get it with shims again you can pull it up and down with the screws as well and leave a little bit of adjustment in your fence and you should be absolutely good to go so that's it guys i'm going to get out of here now hopefully you've enjoyed that don't forget to give the video a thumbs up if you have that really helps me out a lot comments and questions below i always try to get back to everybody if i can and if you're new here think about subscribing there's going to be more videos like this coming up in fact the next video we're going to do a slightly different take on a moderate shooting board it's going to be more of a traditional style that you can use for moldings and things like that so that's gonna be the next video it's gonna be kind of a part two to this one so we're gonna be adding some more woodworking jigs to the workshop so i'll see the next one guys take it easy

Channel: John McGrath

Views: 50,620

Keywords: woodworking, woodworking jigs, woodshop, woodcraft, wood art, wood design, woodworking tools, carpentry, furniture making, dovetail boxes, box making

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Length: 20min 46sec (1246 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 24 2021