Workshop Helpers

From left to right: Shooting Board, and two Bench Hooks

Helpers

Holding wood still while you work on it is step one. Bench hooks, holdfasts, vises, and clamps hold wood still. Making square cuts is step two. The shooting board has a 90 degree fence so you can plane the end of a board squarely.

I had some scrap plywood so I whipped these up in a few minutes. They work. As that was all the thought they required, that's all the thought I put into them.