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Handmade plane

Project by Daren Nelson posted 417 days ago 523 views 2 times favorited 9 comments Add to Favorites
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I always though it would be fun to make a wooden plane. I was right. This is my first one, curly maple and walnut. I kinda cheated on the blade/wedge slot. The iron is from another plane (it’s backwards, I am making my own 3/4” radius iron too). I will try something harder next time, I was just experimenting. I will post pictures if I come up with something cool.
handplane
hand plane

-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/


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oscorner

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posted 417 days ago

It’s a beautiful looking tool. Does it work as good as it looks?

-- Jesus is Lord!

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Thos. Angle

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posted 417 days ago

That’s some real pretty wood. And it looks like it will work well too. Hurry up and do another one. They are fun to build and to use.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

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YorkshireStewart

653 posts in 439 days


posted 417 days ago

Very beautiful. I find your so-called ‘cheat’ really attractive. I must find the time to tackle a plane.

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business.

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Damian Penney

731 posts in 529 days


posted 417 days ago

Neat looking plane Daren, all these great wooden LumberJock planes have most definitely given me the bug….

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

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johnjoiner

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posted 417 days ago

Nice looking plane, Daren.

Did you work off a plan, or use a particular book as a guide?

-- johnjoiner

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Daren Nelson

368 posts in 443 days


posted 417 days ago

johnjoiner. I had an old beat Ohio Tool Company plane I just copied. Believe or not as ratty as it looks it still worked.old plane Damian, it must be catching…I saw some here too that made me want to give it a try.

-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/

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WayneC

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posted 417 days ago

Really nice plane. Did you make the blade?

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

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Daren Nelson

368 posts in 443 days


posted 417 days ago

WayneC I have yet to make a blade (easy, I was a metal worker long before I fell in love with wood) I have good steel and run a sharpening shop. I sharpen planer knives for a living. The body is sound/straight, the iron is my specialty. Irregardless of my ability, or lack there of, to make a nice looking plane it will cut once I am done. With any luck in the right hands it will last 100 years, not on the shelf…in hard use.

-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/

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WayneC

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posted 417 days ago

It is a shame for tools to sit on the shelf un used. Hopefully yours will be lucky.

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

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