Thread: Accuracy of new No. 62 low angle Jack.

Originally Posted by D.W.

The discussion of shooting ends on everything starts who knows when - 1975?

it's worth a serious discussion with oneself to ask if cutting and fitting to the mark (even if the cut has to be done by hand) is a lot better than trying to deal with a bunch of power tool cuts and then shoot everything - it's really limiting at some point beyond just enjoyment and tedium being a problem.

Worth a thread in its own right. - "Shooting" history & shooting boards.

I'm certainly no expert on the history of planes etc but in my own experience researching them and donkey's ear shooting boards I've come across old books like - Walton in "Woodwork - In Theory & Practice" (1947) who discusses shooting boards, and if you go back through historic texts they appear, plus there are a number of US Patents circa 1871/2 for improvements to shooting boards.

Article published in 1939 - Shooting Boards And Donkey's Ears - Appliances Used With Planes - Handplane Central

edit - I went back to Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works (1703) - as I remembered these gems on p64 & p70- "plaining & shooting."