Project Information
OK, I'm a Gemini. I have twin everything it seems. When I built my first chevalet in Green Valley Az. (winter home) I knew that I needed one at home in Canada as well so I built Chevy II, the Canadian cousin. My excuse then was that it was too big to transport back and forth.
Then last winter I discovered Ron Hock's superb blades for wooden planes and built myself a set of three. I liked them so much I wanted to bring them home but it didn't seem right. They were desert planes made of Mesquite and Osage Orange and they belonged to Arizona. The answer was to bring a few blades home and make these Canadian cousins out of coastal B.C. woods.
They may look quite familiar if you saw my previous set although I didn't take measurements. These are made from Arbutus, like my bench, and Garry Oak, a white Oak native to Vancouver Island.
I did make one big improvement in the shoulder plane. I had problems with shavings jamming in the first one so I created a spiral exit on this one. It's really easy to do if you have a scroll saw which I don't in Az.
Of course no project is complete without marquetry so I added my cypher on the two larger ones.
Thanks for looking in.
Paul
Then last winter I discovered Ron Hock's superb blades for wooden planes and built myself a set of three. I liked them so much I wanted to bring them home but it didn't seem right. They were desert planes made of Mesquite and Osage Orange and they belonged to Arizona. The answer was to bring a few blades home and make these Canadian cousins out of coastal B.C. woods.
They may look quite familiar if you saw my previous set although I didn't take measurements. These are made from Arbutus, like my bench, and Garry Oak, a white Oak native to Vancouver Island.
I did make one big improvement in the shoulder plane. I had problems with shavings jamming in the first one so I created a spiral exit on this one. It's really easy to do if you have a scroll saw which I don't in Az.
Of course no project is complete without marquetry so I added my cypher on the two larger ones.
Thanks for looking in.
Paul