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Toted Smoothing Plane

Project by Philip Edwards posted 808 days ago 1105 views 6 times favorited 24 comments Add to Favorites Watch

HI Folks
This plane was made for a friend – he requested a plane with a handle. It came out pretty well!
The timber is Pau Rosa, an exotic. It is pretty tough and brittle to work but look at that grain – beautiful. It has a 2 inch wide O1 iron, 1/8th thick and a 50 degree pitch.
Hope you like,
Phil


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Don

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posted 808 days ago

Phil, this is a beautiful plane.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

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Thos. Angle

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posted 808 days ago

Oh, don’t worry, Phil, we like. I tlooks like a plane I would like to have. Yes, very much so.

-- Thos. Angle

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CharlieM1958

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posted 807 days ago

Outstanding!!!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

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brunob

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posted 807 days ago

Excellent work!

-- Bruce from Central New York

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Karson

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posted 807 days ago

Great plane Phillip, It would be a nice user.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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WayneC

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posted 807 days ago

Very pretty. I bet it works great.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

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Philip Edwards

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posted 807 days ago

Thank you all! It should be with its new owner in a week – I hope he’ll let us know his thoughts :)
Best regards
Phil

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TomFran

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posted 807 days ago

Beautiful work! I’d love to have one – looks like it would fit the hand.

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

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Chip

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posted 807 days ago

Great stuff Phil. Nothing much beats an elegant tool like this. Perhaps centuries of being handled with reverence and handed down from generation to generation. Just wonderful.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

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jude

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posted 806 days ago

that is beautiful!!!! it looks like it would feel nice to use.

-- life can always be weaved into a song.

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David

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posted 806 days ago

Phil -

Beautiful! Wonder if you could convince the owner to share his experience with this beauty? :-)

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

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David

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posted 806 days ago

apologies for a duplicate!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

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WayneC

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posted 806 days ago

Phil, have you made any Krenov style planes. (I know you have an origianal) . Are you sticking to the more traditional style?

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

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Philip Edwards

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posted 806 days ago

Thanks Guys!
Wayne, I have made a few Krenov style planes. But I prefer a slightly taller (and yes, more traditional) plane. The more old planes I see the more the styling gets to me :)
Best regards
Phil

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mot

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posted 806 days ago

Phil, an amazing plane. It’s up to the standard that you’ve set for yourself. Nice work!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

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Andy

571 posts in 804 days


posted 775 days ago

Your planes are works of art.I am sure these beauties sing quite well.

-- " If I can make it,so can you" Andy in Oregon

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Douglas Bordner

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posted 774 days ago

It looks to be one piece, not with the Tote inlet. Did you carve it to shape from a single block? In any regard this is as Tom said, up to your usual Himalayan heights of workmanship and design. Beautiful.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

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Philip Edwards

235 posts in 1335 days


posted 774 days ago

Many thanks, Gents!
And Douglas, you’re right – one piece. It was more work to do it in one but worth it for the flowing grain pattern.
Best regards
Phil

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MikeR

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posted 771 days ago

Phil,
Hello everyone! I am the lucky person who has the beautiful toted smoother in question and all comments are true and then some. I have been giving it a good workout on a mahogony blanket chest that I recently built and it is out performing a couple of rather noteworthy other smoothers that i have used up until this plane came into my hands. I will post pictures (as soon as I can figure out how to do so) to show its handiwork and also to show my chest.
I believe that Phil Edwards will be a name that will be associated with fine hand planes very, very soon, like right now so if you are thinking of trying one out I’d put my order in fast. I ordered a couple of more planes and the waiting time has begun, so act fast.

All the best,
Michael

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WayneC

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posted 771 days ago

I have one of Phil’s miter planes and second the endorsement of his workmanship.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

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PanamaJack

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posted 771 days ago

Sweet!

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

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jcees

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posted 686 days ago

Nice execution, great design, I bet it looks great from all angles. Lovely piece of wood. Did you use anything to strengthen or bolster the mouth? Or will the wood itself hold up okay?

Again, nice work, bro.

always,
J.C.

-- "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein

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shavins

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posted 40 days ago

Stunning!!!

-- shavins

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a1Jim

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posted 39 days ago

super plane well done

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

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