Best plane for shooting

[B A R R Y]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:57:02 -0600, "Max"

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[ghost]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The best aircraft I ever saw or "photo shot" was a UH1C "a Charlie model" gun ship with a 40 mike mike hog frog on the nose and 2.75 rocket tubes on both sides. They were ugly fer sure and sounded worse. But they were sure a great sight when "Charlie's or the NVA's 82 mm mortars were falling about you.

192nd AHC. Phan Thiet RVN 1969. Francis

[Mike Marlow]

P51 Mustang.

[Markem]

My work was done upon the F-4E, the plane that proved with enough thrust a rock can fly. (Glide ratio for an F-4 1 to 8 with forward motion being the one).

Mark (sixoneeight) = 618

[Jay Pique]

How about the Lie Nielsen #9 -

[Scott Lurndal]

My vote for the most beautiful thing in the sky is the XB-70.

scott

[adrian]

I'm not looking for permission. I'm looking for recommendations so I can decide which one to get. :)

I've never used my block plane with my current shooting board because it has a much narrower side wall and it would cut away the guide edge and reduce the support I would get if I went back to a bigger plane. It seems best to use the same plane--or at least a plane with the same side wall thickness--so that the guide edge is as big as possible for the plane. (A few years ago I saw a Knight prototype photo showing a wooden shooting plane that had a really wide side wall for better contact.)

But some people say they are using lots of different planes. Does each plane have a dedicated shooting board? Am I overestimating the importance of this factor? I kind of feel like the guide edge on my existing shooting board has worn some (it's baltic birch plywood). Presumably it would wear faster if it was smaller.

I notice that somebody suggested the Lie Nielsen #9, which is of course an obvious choice, but at $350 for a plane that isn't really suitable for other jobs, it seems like a tough sell. (Didn't this plane used to cost upwards of $400?)

[Lew Hodgett]

RE: Subject.

Actually, a heliicopter.

"The devil made me do it", as Flip would have said.

Lew

[Lowell Holmes]

I use a LV bevel up jack plane with my shooting boards. I sometimes use a 5

1/2 bailey as well. They both do a nice job, the LV gets the nod though.

[B A R R Y]

Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy have also played some great women characters, and quite likely are not gay.

Then there's Sigfried and Roy, who just came out, according to the tabloid I saw in my local supermarket Tuesday evening. No kidding, front page news!

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[John Grossbohlin]

The No 9 is one of those "would be nice to have" things... I use my L-N No

4, 5 and 7 with the same shooting board with no ill effects.

My boys put a bit of wear on the end of the fence when they were learning how to shoot miters. I simply glued some walnut on the end and dressed it with a plane and it was as good as new. A side benefit of making the repair with walnut was it let the boys know that they were rocking the plane when they saw the dark wood shaving mixed in with lighter colored wood.

John