Tricks of the Trade: Shooting Board for Veneer

There isn’t much to this essential jig, but you’ll get a lot out of it.

How do you get a perfect joint when book matching and gluing up veneer? You use this shooting board. Clamp the veneer between the top and bottom pieces of this jig, and use a jointer plane on its side to produce invisible glue joints.

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  • Step-by-step photos
  • Advice on building
  • Helpful illustrations
5 printable (digital) pages of instructions

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