56 days ago
by john111 |
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I just started to recondition my first hand plane! I am not going to say restore just yet because I am not confident in my restoration process. I basically have just taken it all apart and cleaned it up. It was pretty rough when I picked it up off Ebay. I got it for 6 bucks and about 12 for the shipping. So for about 20 dollars I think I picked up a good deal.So far I sanded it all and polished the screws frog ext. I left the adjusting knob on and polished that the best I could. I didn’...
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62 days ago
by nobuckle |
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Ever since I saw Mafe's router plane I’ve had the desire to make one. As I do most often I look here on LJs for inspiration. Well, I found it. As I searched I came across this gem of a router plane made by Tinnocker. Tinnocker got his inspiration from Mafe’s design as well. I used a picture of Tinnockers design to come up with my version of a router plane.
The body of the plane is hard maple. The handles are from some old chair spindles I had laying around, The plane iron is a ...
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71 days ago
by nobuckle |
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After all this time of posting project pictures and videos I’ve decided to move out of my comfort zone and move into the view of the camera. I’ve never been one who wanted to be in front the camera so for me to do this is very new.
As with many of you, my goal is to create a video journal of my woodworking experience. I plan on being in front of the camera a bit more so that viewers can develop a sense of my personality. People seem to like being able to put a face with a name....
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99 days ago
by Don W |
10 comments »
Writing a blog about How to set up a Hand Plane will take a series, because it really depends on what you are trying to do. In other words, a smoother will be different than a jack and so forth, but it even goes further than that. At what stage your planing with your smoother will make a difference also.
So here is a few tips to get you started, and I’m assuming this is for a smoother, so adjust as needed.
- Set the frog far enough ahead so when the blade just starts to cut, it wo...
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119 days ago
by needshave |
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I thought you might like to see the bar made by my great Grandad. He made the bar for my grandfather in the 1800’s. My grandfather owned a tavern/bar and it was used there for decades. His son, my uncle, took over the bar and inherited the bar with it. It stayed there until the close of the tavern around 1960. My father then took the bar and used it as a back counter in his business. I remember it well. It was painted grey with red trim and and had pressed hardboard on the top. I rememb...
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171 days ago
by Retsof |
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I had a long day volunteering at my daughter’s school, so I didn’t get to put in much time on the project today. I did manage to cut the frame for the checkerboard from the rest of the White Ash that I used for the lighter squares.
It’s amazing how diverse the grain looks considering it all came from the same single 5”W x 12’L board. It would have been nice if it was all like the curly sections. Some of the straighter grained sections look kind of boring by...
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252 days ago
by LukieB |
9 comments »
I have quite a few vintage Stanley plane totes that look like this. Seems to be a very common form of damage, guess maybe the first thing to hit the ground when they fall.
First thing I did was clean up and straighten out the damaged area with a sharp chisel, and then on my granite slab with sandpaper on it.
This one was damaged far enough down that the counter-bore was gonna be an issue. The hole had to be drilled before being glued on there. I just eyeballed the angle at first.
I...
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252 days ago
by Don W |
11 comments »
So my wife says to me this sunday morning, “I’ve got some cleaning to do” which is my queue to get lost. Thinking its a nice sunday afternoon coming and we might want to take a motorcycle ride, I wasn’t looking to start any large projects.
In the pile of rust ridden planes looking to be restored was type 11 #4. Now I’ve got a nice type 11 #4C in my collection of type 11s, so the #4 would fit nicely. The tote was broke in half and the bottom half was totally m...
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253 days ago
by Don W |
10 comments »
I post this yesterday on my blog but didn’t get a chance to post it here, so I’ll add the 2 new Sargent planes together.
The #708 is posted here.
I bought this plane because it came with some others that I made a deal on. It didn’t have a iron and it sat for a while. After doing some research I found out these go for a quit a bit of money, so I figured I find a blade and get it working. The #708 is a #3 size smoother.
After looking around a bit and emailing a few people, ...
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255 days ago
by RaggedKerf |
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For the version with pictures, please click here.
I didn’t have a lot of time today, maybe an hour and a half. So, I spent the first hour going at the top again with the #4 plane. I made the executive decision last night to do what I can and call it. In theory, given unlimited energy and time, I could get this top to flat-level with the #4. By the time my kids are in college.
Or, I could do the best I could, get it reasonable (for a first time effort) and bolt the sucker down ...
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