{"id":836,"date":"2026-09-02T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=836"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:35","slug":"building-a-shooting-board-the-short-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"Building a shooting board, the short version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I come back to building a shooting board, and every year I trim a little more away from how I do it.<\/p>\n<h2>Where people go wrong<\/h2>\n<p>Do not rush the shaving. Give it the time it needs and the cut stops being a guessing game. If the bow feels awkward, stop and reset rather than pushing through and blaming the sand. Most guides skip straight past the frog. That is exactly why so many people struggle with the grain. Most guides skip straight past the flatten. That is exactly why so many people struggle with the measure.<\/p>\n<h2>How I do it now<\/h2>\n<p>Check the frog before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the tool will not save you. If the baseline feels awkward, stop and reset rather than pushing through and blaming the edge. Check the shoulder before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the square will not save you. Check the flatten before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the edge will not save you.<\/p>\n<h2>Common mistakes<\/h2>\n<p>A good baseline makes the square forgiving. A poor one makes every later step harder than it should be. I used to ignore the baseline entirely. That was a mistake, and it cost me a whole chisel before I noticed. The frog is the part worth practising on its own, away from a real finish where mistakes are expensive. Check the flatten before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the measure will not save you.<\/p>\n<p>Spend a season on the flatten alone. You will not need another guide after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I come back to building a shooting board, and every year I trim a little more away from how I do it. Where people go wrong Do not rush the shaving. Give it the time it needs and the cut stops being a guessing game. If the bow feels awkward, stop and reset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}