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In preparation for making some staked furniture... I needed a bench appliance that would
hold a four-sided leg so that it could be made hexagonal by
using a hand plane. Image below is an online picture of a vee block device being used to hold round stock on a drill press.  |
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Design
Ideas and Implementation
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Wood choice was some cutoffs... 2 x 4 pine stock...I jointed and planed these pieces to 4 square...stock is 3 1/8" wide by 1 5/16" thick. First, I laid out some ideas for how the vee would work in
the piece... |
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| ...and visualized the dimensions in Sketchup. |  |
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It shows how to sneak up on the 45° +
45° = 90° angle cuts.
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| I cut the vee in the three boards on the P66... |  |
| A finished end... |  |
| ...with measurements shown. |  |
| Two of the shorter
vee blocks (~15 inch and ~17 inch) will live at the drill
press table. Shown here... a one inch dowel is held in the vee block and clamped...drilling a precise hole is greatly enhanced. |
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| End view of vee block... |
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| The bench version (~20 inches long) had a red oak stop attached on one end...4 screws #6-1inch. |  |
| This end goes against the Benchcrafted stop. |  |
| View from the other end. |  |
| The end of the vee block away
from the stop is secured in a batten... |
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| Image of the vee block holding
a square stock so that an edge may be planed...this enables a
four sided leg to become hexagonal. |
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