Tom Dacon wrote in message
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This may sound stupid but I'll take the chance!

How about taping a course grit sand paper to the deck then
placing the boards on the sand paper and moving them in a
sanding fashion. The sandpaper will remove the extra
material and bring the boards shape down to match the deck.

Nothing stupid about that technique at all! I've been using it for years.

However I use it just for the final corrections after I've already planed
it
to a pretty close fit. I'd have the original poster scribe it again and go
back over it with the block plane to get a better fit before going the
sandpaper route, since as you say 1/8" is a lot to take off that way. I'd
just lay a pencil on its side and rescribe the splash boards. You wouldn't
need to plane all the way back to the pencil line, though; just plane away
the irregularities until the edge of the wood is the same distance from
the
pencil line all the way around the piece.

Tom Dacon

Yeah, this sounds like a good way to go. I'll tweak it a little more with
the plane. It really shouldn't take mutch to get it closer. It's probably
a bit less than 1/8", but that seemed like the best description on the fly.
I'll try the sand paper method. It doesn't sound stupid to me either.

Thanks again,
Brian