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A DIV and Mafe inspired creation: My first homemade plane. The shavings shown are some of its first. I bought a blade from Hock, and basically followed the instructions in DIV’s blog. I used a piece of maple that was lying around, as I was too chicken to try it for the first time on some nicer wood. I need to build this again for style points. Heck, I didn’t even oil it up for the picture.
I tilted the blade at 37.5 degrees. If you were to buy the Hock kit, that would be the angle that it used, so I thought what the heck. The blade is mounted bevel side down, and the blade grind angle is 30 degrees. It is 3/4 inches wide and 3/16 inch thick. I was able to sharpen it to perfection using my Lumber Jock WS 3000 special. What a treat.
I used dowels for locating the pieces for assembly. Then I bandsawed the shape, leaving the dowels out of the final shape. Let’s just say the design evolved as I went. I tried to use a miter gauge for the angles but that made it too hard to follow the pencil lines. Next time I will do all the sawing freehand. Also the whole assembly had twisted a bit when I removed the clamps, so I had to flatten and true it up. Next time I think I will clamp it to a flat reference caul while drying, and also make the outside plates thicker so there is more wood for final ‘truing’.
This was a fun build. A bit more challenging than I first thought. But I believe I learned a lot, and plan to try this again soon.
Steve
-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon
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bigike
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#1 posted 07-04-2011 03:18 AM
very nice job.
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Joe Lyddon
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#2 posted 07-04-2011 03:20 AM
Looks pretty good to me!
Maple should be a good wood for it, I would think… from a practical standpoint.
Looks really cool!
Thank you.
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MShort
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#3 posted 07-04-2011 03:26 AM
Nice work Steve.
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KnotCurser
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#4 posted 07-04-2011 03:35 AM
Very nice Steve! I like the layout pic – it shows how you thought about this.
I also have to remember that dowel trick you used – sweet.
-bob
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mafe
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#5 posted 07-04-2011 03:46 AM
Elegant plane, you gave it a nice personal touch.
Lovely to see some shavings, from it.
Yes we are a few here that got a lot from this plane building tour with Div, I also learned a lot.
Best of my thoughts,
Mads
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DonH
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#6 posted 07-04-2011 04:00 AM
Hi Steve
Great looking plane – I am sure you will get lots of use from it
Don
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shipwright
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#7 posted 07-04-2011 04:17 AM
Nice one Steve. And nice photos too.
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rance
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#8 posted 07-04-2011 04:51 AM
That’s a nice one Steve. Hard to believe it is your first hand-built plane.
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Joe Lyddon
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#9 posted 07-04-2011 06:01 AM
Looks pretty good to me!
Maple should be a good wood for it, I would think… from a practical standpoint.
Looks really cool!
Thank you.
-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: https://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/index.php?media/albums/users/joe-lyddon.1389/
David Grimes
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#10 posted 07-04-2011 06:01 AM
Good job. I bet that was a fun project.
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peteg
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#11 posted 07-04-2011 09:53 AM
Just shows what you can come up with if you do your homework & think about it, realy nice job Steve.
If ever you give up playing with timber, why not photography (brilliant shots) :))
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tdv
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#12 posted 07-04-2011 10:09 AM
That’s a very useable & good looking plane Steve I have a Stanley shoulder plane & the problem is really the blades are too thin unlike the up market makers but I really like the blade you used was it expensive? I think I will have to make myself one are these the new cutting boards we ask ourselves??
Best
Trevor
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degoose
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#13 posted 07-04-2011 11:45 AM
Now you have me wanting to make one too…. maybe next week…
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#14 posted 07-04-2011 02:37 PM
Stefe. A great job. We had a workshop in our woodworking club on these almost three years ago.
They are a fun build. I had a couple of screw ups on my project. The glue job, bur also the hole was started to be drilled on the wrong side of the line.
Ours were at a sharper angle. I bought an extra blade so I might try one like yours.
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#15 posted 07-04-2011 02:42 PM
How do you like the 37.5? This is gorgeous.
-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog
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