Rosewood Smoothing Plane

Cool Plane, beautiful wood. mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

nice plane! i think that you should do a blog on just making a smoothing plane like this. i think that would be really nice. thanks for the post!

Cool Plane

-- jeanmarc manosque france

I met David Charlesworth at a boxmaking conference in Carlisle a few years ago. He’s a top man – really knows and understands planes.

What a beautiful plane Philip.

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

Beautiful plane. I like your initials embossed in it as well. Thank you for sharing.

-- Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Very Solid Plane, does it cut as keen as it looks?

Another nice plane. I like the wood you used. Good job on the finish great looking plane.

-- Davesfunwoodworking

Looks like this one may just work – really well! Can’t imagine you’d send it out to David Charlesworth any other way! Beautiful! Nice tight grain.

I just made some winding sticks with the same timber. I really liked how it worked. What method do you use to prepare the surface for finish? Plane, scrape, sand? combo?

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

Beautiful Plane, Interested to know how much David Likes it.

Thanks for sharing.

-- Kip Northern Illinois ( If you don't know where your goin any road will take you there) George Harrison

Lovely, simple and exquisitely executed. Bravo.

always,
J.C.

-- "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein

Nice clean design. Great job!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Great Plane. What is next on the drawing board?

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

Many thanks for the kind comments! Glad you like her :)

Dorje, I scrape than sand with 320 grit. On the end grain I used a ROS to help a little.
Kipster, David was over the moon with it. We recently shared a bench for two days at a Woodworking show and he demonstrated the plane, taking sub-thou shavings all day. Kinda made me proud ;)

Wayne – here we go.......