Sounds like fun, I'm definitely in. I guess I will have to make my first wood bodied plane now…

 

I have made a couple shoulder planes. Birch bodies and a salvaged/modified blade. They work quite well.

In the stash is some nice fiqured Maple.

I am in if some one would like a shoulder plane.

 

I'm in too.

 

Hey, Brian, can you mill dense woods with your CNC? Just curious…no way I can afford one. Unless I can grab one at the same price you did.

Seems like a computer controlled router would be sweet for inlay, or any finely detailed work. I sure tried on the last swap to form a nice dado using hand tools, but couldn't pull it off using just a marking knife and router plane. Shoulda practiced more…

 

I should be able to make something by Oct. 15. Count me in.

 

I have a small stash of Red Oak and Granadillo Might be able to do some glue ups and and see what I can come up with..

Has anyone ever tried making a wooden body plane using the blade assembly from a Stanley plane (Chip breaker/Iron etc) Mounted with a screw?

I was thinking if you used some extremely hard wood like Ebony or Granadillo and Tapped it about 2" in the blade assembly would be pretty stout. Thoughts?

 

I've got a smoother posted in my projects that uses a vintage iron and chip breaker. The iron was cut down like a "teal" krenov. It works really well.

edit….and I didn't finish reading . Its not mounted with a screw but I plan to try that. Its one of Baileys first patented designs.

 

Count me in, I have never made a plane before …....

Let me know when & where …...

 

I'm still in on the forum as well Was the PM only for what type? Or was it for participation as well?

 

If it's something I need to track, like participation and type pm or email me so I don't. Miss it.

 

I wanna do this, but not sure if I can hit the deadline, lots of stuff on my plate..when is the latest a person can sign up?

 

Wow Don that is pretty cool.. Would it be ok to get creative with the hardware (Chip breaker/frog/iron as long as the body is made from wood?.

 

Terry, I can do wood, metal, plastic, etc. Now that you have pointed that out, this could get fun. However, I wonder if anyone would feel slighted by having something not made completely by hand (though I guess we do use other machines like table saws and such anyway).

 

Has anyone tried making a low-angle Block plane from wood? I haven't seen one yet.

 

I'm in! Rick M. and I actually did a plane swap while the marking gauge swap was going on. I love making planes.

 

Since this will be new for so many of us - do any of the veteran plane makers have any sage advice or resources to recommend?

 

I haven't tried the low angle but have read because the wood is so thin under the bed it doesn't stand up. I've got a few older ones in box lots that reflect this.

 

You can get the same low angle effect on a wood plane by making a bevel down plane with 37 degree bedding.

 

Would one of these count?

Need to make a few new ones, anyway..

 

I'm in. Do we send a PM to Don?

 

And my opinion is as long as the body is wood, it's good. I take that as the consensus.

 

Don W Yea I was wondering about the wood being too thing at the edge then I had an idea of gluing/screws etc a 1/8" piece of aluminum between the wooden angle and the blade to reinforce it..

I dunno, my mind is going a thousand different directions with the thought of this project.

You guys may have created a monster here..

 

Look up how Derick Cowen (hope the spelling is right) adds a brass inlay around the mouth of his fine planes. I think that would do it for the low angle.

He here on lj and had a must see web site.

 

I may live to regret this, but add me to the list.. Its funny, I was just working on a couple planes this week.
Will shoot a PM to ya Don.W to make sure its all legit… here we go again… Yee haw.. Papa

 

Ok, I'm in. This is going to be an adventure…