Forgot what thread this was mentioned in, but here is a picture. The Terry Senate Fence Post Square. Used to square an outline.
This thread Lowel.
That looks like it would be a useful tool for getting rails on the nose and the tail square. I always have a hard time free handing those areas because I am afraid to use my planer on them. I have two planers: a modified green Hitachi that I use for shaping, and a blue Boch door planer that has an angle attachment. Here is how I use it to get nice 90 degree angled rails on the middle section.
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Here is another image from the other side. Notice the little preliminary rail band that I cut into the blank on the deck rail. I did this because my planer isn’t wide enough to cover the entire rail width.
Make you a hotwire tool for outline, no more planer needed…
Since I got this little jewel from Surf Source a few years back, I don’t use the fence post square much. And like Swied I do use a planer, but without the fence. I normally am right on my pencil line at cutout, so usually just a pass around the block gets me home.
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Do you have a link for that tool?
Don’t know how to link. It’s is sold on the Surf Source website. They are out of Florida. The last time I looked I didn’t see that tool. They may be out of stock. I am thinking the guy who used to manufacture those tools may have given it up. He made about four different tools; calipers, rail gauge, a rail scribe and the template sander.
Yeah. I checked their current site and couldn’t find one.
I don’t remember off hand, but I ran the guy down on Facebook or some other source. He bought a motel/cafe/bar or something similar back East. Remodel and restoration of that property seemed to be his focus. I tried to contact him but never a reply. At the time I was hoping to market his tools on the West Coast. I showed Brad Basham my tools and he was impressed. I bought one of each of everything he made. I sent shaper’s Australia pictures of his “Rail Profile” tool. And they made an exact copy that they sell on their website now. They were already manufacturing a rail profiler that wasn’t as good.
I’ll get you a pic of mine this weekend.
What I would really like is an adjustable rail profile sanding/shaping tool that could do angles from 30-90 degrees. Even better if it could swap out different grits of sandpaper.
I’m tired of building my own shaping tools. Last one was a tool for sanding perpendicular walls without removing foam from the channel bottom — that could swap out different sandpaper grits. About to use the same grit swap-out concept for the fence-post level profiler.