Toted Smoothing Plane

Phil, this is a beautiful plane.

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

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

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Outstanding!!!

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

Excellent work!

-- Bruce from Central New York

Great plane Phillip, It would be a nice user.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Very pretty. I bet it works great.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

-- life can always be weaved into a song.

Phil -

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

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

apologies for a duplicate!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

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

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

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)

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

-- " Stubborn tenacity substitutes for natural ability" ANDY

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.

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

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

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

Sweet!

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

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