Project by Brian Gulotta | posted 06-28-2018 08:31 PM | 1459 views | 1 time favorited | 7 comments | ![]() |
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I made a small hand plane out of a piece of Bradford pear firewood I had lying around. It is my entry for James Wright’s 2018 hand tool build off. The iron is a little thin for it to be used for face planing. But it works really well for chamfering and small edge planing. Here is a link to more details in the plane construction. I think I am finally ready to get a makers stamp made and start making my own planes with nice thick irons.
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Andre
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#1 posted 06-28-2018 09:46 PM
Nice, still grab some of my Wood planes every so often, but very spoiled with the PMV-11 irons.
Some very good shavings, did you do the read through them test?
-- Lifting one end of the plank.
Brian Gulotta
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#2 posted 06-28-2018 09:52 PM
Thanks Andre, I really prefer using wooden planes. However, I still use my old Bailey pattern planes a lot as well. It does takes some really nice thin shavings. The only thing is the iron is some old thin one I had laying around from an old block plane. Single iron woodies really benefit from thicker irons. With all the planes I plan on making going forward I am going to make my own irons so they are nice and thick.
Andre
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#3 posted 06-29-2018 12:05 AM
All my Krenov style planes have Hock irons (nice and thick) in them with chip breakers, I might just make a small low angle, bevel up block plane just for the heck of it? I seem to have a pile of old Stanley iron kicking around.
-- Lifting one end of the plank.
Joe
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#4 posted 06-29-2018 06:54 PM
Very nice plane, I hope you win the build off. Thanks for inspiring
-- CurleyJoe, "You only learn from your mistakes"
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#5 posted 06-29-2018 06:57 PM
This is a beautiful shop made tool.
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Brian Gulotta
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#6 posted 06-29-2018 07:00 PM
Thanks!
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#7 posted 06-29-2018 07:01 PM
Thank a bunch.
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