Okay Big Mouth… plus Super Chute update.

Back in the pre-Lie-Nielsen and Veritas era, this newbie wood worker read anything available about the magic properties of what a hand plane could do, in a desperate attempt to coax beautiful shavings from the one plane I owned, an off-the-Ace-Hardware-shelf Stanley. Of woodworking writers extolling the virtues of hand planes, Krenov was the obvious […]

Vogt Toolworks

Vogt Toolworks. Does that sound familiar to you? Have you heard that name before? I hadn’t either until this afternoon. Talking to Don Schroder, the Artistic director at Popular Woodworking, about possibly signing up for the Woodworking in America event this fall to offer my fledgling shooting board and a few other items to the […]

More shooting board photos.

Precision Shooting

For the benefit of my curious niece, Gina, who has asked “what’s a shooting board?” here is a definition and some pictures. From Webster: “(Joinery), a fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true.”

So, […]

The “Super Chute”

The "Super Chute" and accessories by Tico Vogt.

I just sent my third prototype of a ramped shooting board to Ron Brese (www.breseplane.com). He has been very encouraging in e-mail exchanges over the last month about this project of mine to develop a high quality ramped shooting board with attachments for sale on […]