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Busy day! Put up a shed. Then came back to this. I decided to try and make the fence removable so that I can make a 45deg mitred one next and interchange them as needed.

I used a squared peice of stock to act as a temporary fence for the No. 078 and set to making a dado to accomodate the threaded rod (M6 stainless). First time I've used a Rebat / Rabbet plane. I really like the results but I was struggling to get the channels square on the bottom of the cut, I seemed to be putting more pressure on one side of the iron than the other. Luckly I could just flip the workpeice over. More practice needed!
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Once the cut was established I didn't need the guide any more
Edit: I also planed a little more off the top deck stand-offs so that it's now a 4deg slope.
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Really enjoyed using that. Then I planed a peice of softwood to the size of the dado / width of the cutter on the 078 and used this to sand out any wayward strands of wood
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This worked really well so it's earnt a place on the plane-shrine mantle
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Then I took the laminated fence (Sapele - Maple - Sapele) which I glued up y'day... Edit: has a 4deg bevel planed into the underside so it effectively creates 90deg receiving for the future workpeice
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...and drilled 9mm holes in to accomodate threaded inserts. These were epoxy'd into the fence.
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and I made a doofer for the front of the shooting board. This has a stop to enable positive engagement with the board when clamping the fence on.

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then I put it all together.
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Edit - all I could find were these T-track M6 inserts, I'll order some nice M6 knurled thumb nuts at some point....

Later on I'll glue the top deck onto the shooting board with some dowels if I feel brave enough. I plan to offset the top deck a little to enable a bench dog location hole on the sideto help keep the board in place when using. There will be a bench-stop on the underside as well.

Thanks for all your discussion, helps me a lot!
 

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