Panel Raising Plane.

Well done ! Great way to re-purpose the plane! who gave you such a great idea?

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Don this tip may help. I mark out my panels with a marking guage first, then I use a snipes bill to deepen the groove made by the marking guage close to depth I need, then I use my panel raiser (In my case I call mine a bevel plane).
Hope this is of some help.

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well canadianchips, I had to look up what a snipes bill was. Now another plane I absolutely must have.

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Don ….. DoooH … the cavemand is a little confused here … (nothing new in 2012 about that )
I have a roughbank that is converded simular way where there is a little thin strip added (slipped panel plane)
so it both can be a sort of raised panel (more like a long rabbetplane ) and be used as a roughbank
depeing on if the strip is on or not …........and it doesn´t have the nicker
and neither does the other type of rabbet planes I have … nor does your new Veritas (congrats with it )
the only time you have to use a nicker or score the wood with a cheisel/knife is when you plane across
the grain to start with … planing with the grain shuold be a piece of cake ….. another thing
I don´t under stand is why you have sharpened the side of the iron …. that is not nessery
look at your veritas and your other rabbet planes none of them is sharpened on the side of the blade
but is set so they follow the side of the plane
and a panelraising plane is basicly (as I see it ) just another rabbetplane with a different mould
on the bottom

so why bother with a different set up on the plane if you can ceep it simple
or was it just the chanlange to see if you cuold do it ( no sarcasme or ironi in my comments )
just plain currious

Dennis

Ps.
hmm just had to catch John whelan´s book to read up a little ….. no… only one line about
there was some improofed with spurs/nickers the chapter starts on page 67 about panel planes

take care

Smiity has a pretty good blog about raising panels with a 78

As for the side cut blade, all the panel raising planes I’ve sen are sharpened that way, and it did make a difference when cutting the panel. Why? I’m not sure.

I don’t have a rabbit plane wide enough, and I thought it would be cool to try.

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Great idea Don, this is really a nice blog and project.
And the result looks good also.
Way to go man!
Best thoughts,
Mads

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Don you have my full attention. I have a jack rabbet that I have been trying this with. A very well written blog. I think I will give yours a try.

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Thanks, Don! Hey, I like that nicker detail too, I’m sure it made a big difference, especially on cross grain. I know of a beat-to-crap #33 in an antique shop for $55 and now I think maybe I should buy it and make a panel-raising body for it.
Hey, somebody say ”Snipe’s Bill”? I got these 2, a matched set, from that British guy on eBay last year.
And now I finally have a use for them.

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poopiekat, I would think a #33 would be to long, or at least longer than needed. I may have something shorter like a #26 or #28 that would work and I’ll sell cheaper than $55.

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Don, I was thinking more about the width of the iron, and I would need a blade with a lot of meat left because I would want to grind it to imitate a shaper profile that segues the bevel into a tongue that will fit into the dado in the stiles and rails, instead of a simple bevel right to the edge.

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