| Project by Bram Couttouw | posted 453 days ago | 1817 views | 12 times favorited | 14 comments | ![]() |
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I alwase wanted a smoother like this one but I had no time to make one, untill last week.
I used the design from Phil Edwards (philly planes) and aksed him if he could give me some measurements.
The plane is made out of jatoba with a strike button in wengé. The plane iron is 4mm thick.
It has a 50° bed angle to plane difficult wood. The handle is mortised in the body.
I didn’t use a chip breaker and so far it works pretty good.
It took me 4 days or so to make this plane, quite a lot of work went in it. Especially to chop out the opening to fit the blade in.
I’m quite happy with the way it turned out. It still needs a couple coats of wax.
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14 comments so far
Martyroc
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#1 posted 453 days ago
That came out spectacular, one day I will get to this as well, until then I like admiring yours.
-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.
489tad
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#2 posted 453 days ago
That plane is beatuiful. Great style to it. I’ll join the club of having to make one…someday.
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tdude30
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#3 posted 453 days ago
Wow. What a functional piece of Art. Amazing work.
-- Newbie woodworker
a1Jim
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#4 posted 453 days ago
Beautiful plane very nice work.
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choppertoo
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#5 posted 453 days ago
That looks very nice. Will you tell us more about the plane iron, please
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Dennisgrosen
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#6 posted 453 days ago
beautyfull plane
nearly nothing can beat a well homemade tool
one you can be proud of
thanks for sharing
Dennis
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#7 posted 453 days ago
i like it.
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mafe
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#8 posted 453 days ago
Beautiful. Best thoughts,
Mads
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PaBull
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#9 posted 453 days ago
Very nice looking “schaaf”.
what kind of blade did you use?
Be well.
Pabull.
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Mauricio
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#10 posted 453 days ago
Sweet!
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Philip
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#11 posted 453 days ago
That is a great looking plane, well done!
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#12 posted 453 days ago
Nice work !
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RGtools
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#13 posted 452 days ago
Thanks for sharing. How did you shape the handle? Just curious. That is a gorgeous tool.
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Bram Couttouw
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#14 posted 452 days ago
Thanks for the nice comments.
The blade is just an old plane blade that i bought at a yardsale together with the plane body (of course) 43 mm wide, 4 mm thick with a 25° bevel.
Pabull, indeed, schaaf
I cut the handle out on the bandsaw and drilled the waste out with a forstner bit (where you gonne want to put your fingers). I shaped everything with rasps and handsanded the handle untill it was smooth.
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