smoother wooden plane

Wow, nice job! Looks great.

I like the wood strips added in for extra eye appeal. It’s nice working with good looking tools eh. Awesome and inspiring.

-- Nathan Ward, Fort Saskatchewan, AB

Beautiful plane.
Congrat.

-- Mad F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.

That is a sharp looking plane! Nice work.

-- Jason - Colorado Springs

Very Nice, love the stripes !!

-- Pat - Worker of Wood, Collector of Tools, Father of one

Looks like an old time race car with rally stripes. Great looking plane.

-- Hey, woodworking ain't brain surgery. Just do something and keep trying till you get it. Doc

nice

-- Ike, Big Daddies Woodshop, http://www.icombadaniels@yahoo.com

yep, life is too short for ugly tools. Real nice plane. looks comfy to use.

-- We call the destruction of replaceable human made items vandalism, while the destruction of irreplaceable natural resources is called development.

wow ,

what a beauty !

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

That is gorgeous! Have you tried it with a standard blade? I’ve never had the opportunity to try a Hock blade but am considering ordering one based on all the comments I’ve read and heard about them. Good work, BTKS

-- "Man's ingenuity has outrun his intelligence" (Joseph Wood Krutch)

I haven’t tried a standard blade but I see no reason why they wouldn’t work. Just need to allow for different thickness of the blade and chipper. I didn’t want to use a blade from my other metal planes so I ordered the Hock. The Hock blade and chipper is thicker. I like the Hock blade thickness as I believe it will be an easier cutting process. I need to hone the blade now and get it setup. I’m sure it will take some playing around with. I may have to adjust the wedge as I made it a little thicker not having the blade. Now I can fine tune it.

-- Tim Mahoney, So Cal, http://www.mahoneywoodworks.com

very nice work great looking design you sure your going to want to use now

looks great I´ll bett it will work fine in many years and serve you well

Dennis

Wow, Nice plane!

-- Micheal, Boise, Id

really nice. If it works half as good as it looks, you’re in business. I’m sure it will!

-- There is nothing like the sound of a well tuned hand plane. - http://timetestedtools.wordpress.com (timetestedtools at hotmail dot c0m)

Thanks Don,

It really works nice. The Hock blade is a big part of it. I recently used it to make some nice curlies on a 3d marquetry piece.

-- Tim Mahoney, So Cal, http://www.mahoneywoodworks.com