Crawling out from under the porch and dusting myself off...

I made a different type of mitre jack a few years ago when I was making some
furniture with triple miter joints.  Wiktor was kind enough to host my story
about this on his website:

http://www.wkfinetools.com/tMaking/art/miterJack/miterJack-1.asp

This worked really well and I don't think I could have gotten these joints
to fit properly without it.

For the last couple of years I have been working on building bamboo fly
rods.  Just finished my fifth one and I feel like I am still on the steep
part of the learning curve.  I've gotten to the point where I can enjoy
using them for fishing, but still have a ways to go before I could ever
charge money for one.

The assembled bamboo rod has a hexagonal cross section and is made of 6
strips which have an equilateral triangle section.  The grooved block plane
used for planing these on the steel form has a groove which is 0.003 inches
deep.  This allows the plane to be used on the form without planing into the
surface of the form.  I only use this plane for the final passes, using a
Stanley #18 for taking off most of the material to that point.  A key point
about using the grooved plane for this application is that the groove must
be wider than the strip which is being planed.  I don't know that this would
be the case when using a grooved plane on a miter jack?  This restriction
would limit the stock to be less than about 2/3 the width of the plane sole.

Best Regards,
Ted, who is still around, just not speaking up very often.
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