ideas for supporting long board to face of bench

Swingman <[email protected]> writes:

> On 8/4/2013 6:17 PM, Joe Riel wrote:
>> I've occasionally seen adjustable supports for holding one end of a
>> board for edge planing; the other end is clamped to the face of the
>> bench with a shoulder vise. Is there a standard term for such a
>> support? More usefully, any pictures [urls] showing an idea I can
>> copy/modify? I have a tail vise that can be used to hold it in place.
>
> My grandfather, and the cabinetmaker I worked with for a time in the
> UK, called them "board jacks":
>
> DAGS" "board jack workbench"

Thanks, that's the term I was forgetting.

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Joe Riel

On 8/4/2013 7:42 PM, Swingman wrote:
> On 8/4/2013 6:17 PM, Joe Riel wrote:
>> I've occasionally seen adjustable supports for holding one end of a
>> board for edge planing; the other end is clamped to the face of the
>> bench with a shoulder vise. Is there a standard term for such a
>> support? More usefully, any pictures [urls] showing an idea I can
>> copy/modify? I have a tail vise that can be used to hold it in place.
>
> My grandfather, and the cabinetmaker I worked with for a time in the UK,
> called them "board jacks":
>
> DAGS" "board jack workbench"
>
Also a deadman... but board jack is more common.

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Jeff

On 8/4/2013 6:17 PM, Joe Riel wrote:
> I've occasionally seen adjustable supports for holding one end of a
> board for edge planing; the other end is clamped to the face of the
> bench with a shoulder vise. Is there a standard term for such a
> support? More usefully, any pictures [urls] showing an idea I can
> copy/modify? I have a tail vise that can be used to hold it in place.

My grandfather, and the cabinetmaker I worked with for a time in the UK,
called them "board jacks":

DAGS" "board jack workbench"

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