Thread: A tricky planing terminology....shooting

I like "trimmed it"

TT

I call it "breaking out the back edge"


My vote goes for "shot". "Trimmed" would be acceptable but "shot" describes how it was trimmed...to me anyway.

shot.

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

The English language can be a damned tricky thing.

If I have trimmed a piece of timber on my Shooting Board have I:

A) Shot it (a bit drastic sounding)

or

B) Shooted it (a bit clunky sounding)

or

C) summink elsed it?

Wouldn't be the first time the language has been tricky. I wonder how many know that the plural of a (keyboard) mouse is mouses?

i think the answer is in your question ... clearly you have "trimmed" it

reminds me of the story of a tailor trying writing an order: "please send me two tailors' gooses" ... then rewcasting it as: "please send me two tailors' geese"

and finally:
"please send me a tailors' goose

PS. please send me another one"

regards david

If you trim it a bit too much, have you "over-shot"?

Trimmed gets my vote. Or if you wish to be specific, "trimmed by shooting" (since I'm just as likely to have trimmed a board with the TS these days... )

I'm surprised no-one has yet debated the spelling of 'shoot' (which as far as I can tell is 'correct' in that it's spelt so in older texts). I note a tendency to spell it 'chute', over the last few years. Is that because the Stanley shoot board & its clones has a chute for the plane to ride in?

Cheers,

If I have trimmed a piece of timber on my Shooting Board have I:

Trimmed

If you trim it a bit too much, have you "over-shot"?

This is when it's SHOT

and if you have over shot it then throw it in the rubbish chute.
I vote for trimmed

I shot the board

hmm makes me think that you missed the cans and hit the bit of wood they were sitting on whilst doing a bit of target practise

I shoot through on this one with out trying to be witty or shooting my big mouth off

a definition
Shooting board -- a board with a step-shaped profile used to guide the motion of a planerelative to a work piece to ensureaccurateplaning.

so the answer to your question is -- accurately planned to length, or width, or shape

Originally Posted by ian

a definition
Shooting board -- a board with a step-shaped profile used to guide the motion of a planerelative to a work piece to ensureaccurateplaning.

so the answer to your question is -- accurately planned to length, or width, or shape

Although, crude as it may be, "shot" is a lot quicker to say....

Originally Posted by ian

so the answer to your question is -- accurately planned to length, or width, or shape

so trimmed for short?
TT

Originally Posted by seanz

If you trim it a bit too much, have you "over-shot"?

that would be " shat edge ".