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My first handplane (Shoulder Plane)

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Shop made shoulder plane #1: Finally finished

5 days ago by parkerdude | 7 comments »

I wanted to try my hand at making hand planes, the shop needs several. Struggling with the design concept, I bought a book “Making Traditional Wooden Planes” by John M. Whelan, it was no novel but a good source of wood plane design info. It’s worth reading if you’re researching wooden hand planes. Trying to keep the first plane simple I decided on making a small shoulder plane in the Krenov style. Looking around my shop I found an old 1” chisel. It is harder than heck, so I took it apart and used my Dremel tool to narrow the tang to within about an inch of the edge. Having already made 1 attempt, the results weren’t as desired. I had however thicknessed the oak slabs f...

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