When you say ‘esteemed colleagues’ I think you mean me!


and I’m very happy to be corrected.  I just always knew the device as a donkeys
ear.   Apologies for leading anyone astray.
 

A Mitre Jack eh? - doesn’t have the same ring to it, but hey ho. 


Thanks Chuck.


Richard Wilson
ill educated galoot on the eastern shores of Northumberland 


> On 6 Jun 2021, at 17:54, Chuck Taylor via groups.io 
wrote:
> 
> Dan and other Gentle Galoots,
> 
> I hate to disagree with my esteemed colleagues, but according to Salaman's
Dictionary of Woodworking Tools, the following picture shows a donkey's ear,
more precisely "Donkey's Ear Shooting Board", used for "planing a mitre in the
thickness of a board (e.g. along its edge rather than across its end." This is
one I made recently just for the fun of it.
> 
> https://vault.myvzw.com/webcs/C0N4aKRC8C 
> 
> 
> Next is a picture of what Salaman calls a "Mitre Shooting Block" or "Mitre
Jack", made by our own Adam Maxwell:
> 
> https://maxwells.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Poplar-bookcase/i-rN9XJ6h/A
> 
> 
> Salaman says that "In use the workpiece, which has been sawn to a mitre, is
cramped between the triangular blocks, and the joint trued with the Plane."
> 
> Translations:   "Mitre" == "Miter" and "cramped" == "clamped". 
> 
> Cheers,
> Chuck Taylor
> north of Seattle USA
> 
> 
> ===
> Dan asks… 
> 
>> Does anyone have any idea what this this is:
> 
> It’s a donkey’s ear. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



-- 
Yorkshireman Galoot
in the most northerly county, farther north even than Yorkshire
IT #300