Shop made toothed plane

Looks good… What are the tooth iron planes best used for? I have seen them before but never really knew what their best use was..

-- Dan - "Collector of Hand Planes"

Nice, Don. How well does it work? Also, have you thought about different angles for the iron? I don’t know much about toothed irons.

-- "hold fast to that which is good"

Awesome as usual, Don Yoda!

-- Jason K

Nice! It’s on my ever growing “eventual” list of things I want to do as well…

-- Mos - Twin Cities, MN -- Stanley #45 Evangelist - www.youtube.com/MosquitoMods

cool, i might have to make one of these if i have to work with mahogany again :)

how do you sharpen it, and how do you make the teeth?

Very nice, great use of the wormy chestnut! You gonna rough up your bench top?

-- Mauricio - Woodstock, GA - "Confusion is the Womb of Learning, with utter conviction being it's Tomb" Prof. T.O. Nitsch

Brandon, it seems to work well, but I haven’t had a chance to use it for real. I tested it out and it produced some fine sawdust and allowed me to smooth a knot in a piece of maple.

Aaron, I’m not sure if you can “make” the teeth yourself. I’d suggest buying a toothed blade like I did.

Dan, its used as a precursor for those impossible to plane areas. It chews it up and allows the smoother or scraper to do its job.

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Pretty cool Don. You know…x mas is right around the corner?

Super cool Don.
Way to go.
New life to the old blade, it makes me smile.
Best thoughts,
Mads

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

Nice one Don.
They are also used to prepare both sawn veneer surfaces and substrate surfaces for veneering.
I’d love to find a blade like that somewhere.

-- Paul M ..............If God wanted us to have fiberglass boats he would have given us fiberglass trees. http://prmdesigns.com/

looking good Don :-)
good to see an old blade work again
there is one more use for it …. if you don´t want to have that super highgloss finish
on your workbench where the wood you work on always sems to slide around like crazy
then use it to rehab the surface
there is a vidioclip in a blog about a bench that a great cabinet maker use on L J
I just can´t remember the name on the blog now

Dennis

Nice work Don. Great pictures too.

Thanks for sharing.

-- ~Tony

Here's the link Dennis was mentioning. He may have found it through my hide glue blog.

-- Paul M ..............If God wanted us to have fiberglass boats he would have given us fiberglass trees. http://prmdesigns.com/

excactly :-)

thank you Poul

great work.. glad to see that iron went to good use!