This is all your fault

Now that’s just awesome! Really nice! I haven’t thrown my hat into the plane making ring just yet, but it may be partially your fault if I do! LOL…Thanks for posting this.

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

Thats cool. Its nice to see people inspired to build because of this site..

-- bryano

Beautiful and functional! I like it a lot. I bet it is a joy to use. Keep up the good work.

-- Check out my new website! http://www.theeasellife.com

I’ll take the blame, Daren. However, I think you’ve built a very neat tool there. I really like the color and if it worked half as good as you say it does it is still really great. Excellent work.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

What a stylish little plane. I like the way you dispensed with the cross-dowel. Fun!

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

This will come in handy. Very nice indeed.

-- All donations should be made out to me and in the form of wood or tools ~Chris

Well, Crap. Now I want one too! I got to quit looking at this stuf….

-- Dan in Central Oklahoma, Able to turn good wood into saw dust in the blink of an eye!

That is a nice colorful plane. Nice job on it.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Very Nice indeed!
God bless

-- Gene, a Christian in Virginia

Now that is a nice looking plane. And, even better, it works well. You just can’t beat that! And, you had fun making it.

I know I’m going to have to make a plane one of these days!

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

I don’t want to bury a project within a project, but I am not going to keep posting plane after plane as a new topic. I started with a simple box plane repro (walnut/honeylocust and good steel)

Then I got thinking smaller/more precision. So I made a spoke shave, again superior steel, the design was on the fly but it works.

I needed a bullnose scraper…so I designed and built one

Yes I have made these all in the last couple weeks. I like good wood and good steel, 2 of my favorite things,I just very recently realized I could combine the two in a fun project/functional tool that I can use for years.

I don’t know whether to thank you guys for the inspiration…or curse you for the distraction ($ work is getting less of my time, this is not my hobby. Wood is how I feed myself) I reckon I will just thank you, I have had fun.

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

What a wonderful group of planes and shaves -

I don’t think anyone of us would mind if you posted the tools you’ve made as individual projects!

Where do you buy your steel?

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

And we have a new plane guru amongst us :-)). The planes are beautiful and look very functional. Where are you getting the irons for them? Don’t tell me that you forge them too.

It is scary how addictive these planes can get. I don’t know why we ever went to power tools – well, yes I do, it’s quicker – though not necessarily cheaper.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Very inspiring, esp. the chisel plane.

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

What an inspiration. Now maybe I need to curse you for getting my mind whirling on making some of these. Can you give a little ‘how to’?

Thanks again,
Steve

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Yes, please blog your process. Thanks.

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

I have made some of my own irons (I have a welding shop and a sharpening business). The iron like in the locust/walnut plane I “borrowed” from a trashed box plane I found at auction for $5. It is an old Sandusky Tool Company iron, good one IMO. The iron in the last one pictured (bullnose scraper) I made out of a Milwaukee sawzall blade, it was already hard steel.
I have been buying planes at auction just for the steel ($3-$10 for the plane) I was just going to buy the irons new…and freaked out at how much they cost. I am not trashing the old wooden planes, just borrowing the iron and keeping the old one.
I have some planes I am going to make some day that I will have to make and temper the irons (itty bitty dudes)

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

Love the way the grain wraps around the handle on the spokeshave.

-- North Texas

Wow…. I love it.

-- Chris

Very nice. I have wanted to make a plane since the “Woodworks, David Marks” episode.

-- Maplewood, MN

I’m sem palavras (dumb), i loose my few english, we have the same addiction …planes
home made tools what a great pleasure, a few thing exceed this feeling
love them

-- http://freewebs.com/linse_alain