Prototype swap plane

Great build. Remember the old adage: Give a man a plane and he can plane all day, but teach a man to make a plane and he’ll create all the tools he’ll ever need.
Seriously, nice build, sweet plane with nice shavings.

-- "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln

Do you have a source for plane parts? I have been thinking of making one or two as well.

Thanks!

For plane parts, I used the Veritas wooden plane hardware kit.

-- Dave - Santa Fe

Now that is a plane contribution DP.

Nice shaving… unfortunately my razor does similar to my face the morning after a heavy night on the vino…

-- If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

Pretty Cool, you do great work!

-- K. Stone “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin

Thanks, Kelly. It’s not the prettiest plane in the world, and it’s a little small for my big paws, but it’s a user. And I learned a bunch from not getting it quite right, so I’m happy with it.

Also glad I planned enough time to make another one after I’d learned from my mistakes on this one.

-- Dave - Santa Fe

Great prototype Dave. If it had wings it could fly. Any tool by hand gives us a feeling of success. nice job.

-- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams.

Thanks, Dave. I finally got around to finishing it this morning. Oil and wax and it’s prettier now.

-- Dave - Santa Fe

.... Oil and wax and it’s prettier now….
- Dave Polaschek

-- If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

That’s pictures 2-6, Ducky.

-- Dave - Santa Fe

Sorry DP, I was looking at my computer screen from the wrong angle and couldn’t see the plane sheen!

Or did you gotcha me…? and add those photos overnight.

-- If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

I added those a few hours ago after putting on the wax this morning, Minneapolis time. Just after saying “it’s prettier now”. Gotcha!

-- Dave - Santa Fe

Phew… thought I had one too many vino after my too many vinos last night.

-- If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

Nice work!!

-- Live to tell the stories, they sound better that way.

Nice job Dave.

Thanks for posting.

On a completely other vein. I know a guy who grabs up thin shavings I make like this

He calls them home made tissue paper.

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