So in I believe the most recent edition of Wood Magazine they had an article on making a wooden hand plane. I've wanted to do one for a while and the article made me go ahead and give it a try.
it's turning out okay. We'll see how it works once I get it totally done. I need to find a source for some 1/4" Brass Rod.
Here are some photos so far. Unfortunately I didn't get any pics of it while I was gluing up the the cores.
The woods are Sapele, Spalted maple, and Walnut.
I cut the core into it's three parts. The two sides left and right will be the plane and then the triangle is where the wedge comes from.
The sides have been glued to the core
Shot of the Wedge template on the part that was cut out.
Starting to adjust the opening on the bottom. I did this a little differently than they suggested in the article they suggested using the table saw to open the throat up I didn't feel like I was going to be able to get the control I wanted so I set my jointer up to take it's lightest cut possible. that slowly opened the throat I would test it with the blade run another pass test over and over. I also used a few files to help out. Apparently when I made the 45 degree cuts on the table saw my blade was out of square just a bit so I had to adjust the openings to account for that. The next one will be better. :gar-Bi
Now the blade fits all the way through.
Shot of the throat it's mostly squared up.
My Son wanted to get in on it with his toy plane.
The plane with the wedge removed. Once I can find some brass rod I can drill for that and hopefully have a tight fitting wedge and can finish her up.
it's turning out okay. We'll see how it works once I get it totally done. I need to find a source for some 1/4" Brass Rod.
Here are some photos so far. Unfortunately I didn't get any pics of it while I was gluing up the the cores.
The woods are Sapele, Spalted maple, and Walnut.
I cut the core into it's three parts. The two sides left and right will be the plane and then the triangle is where the wedge comes from.
The sides have been glued to the core
Shot of the Wedge template on the part that was cut out.
Starting to adjust the opening on the bottom. I did this a little differently than they suggested in the article they suggested using the table saw to open the throat up I didn't feel like I was going to be able to get the control I wanted so I set my jointer up to take it's lightest cut possible. that slowly opened the throat I would test it with the blade run another pass test over and over. I also used a few files to help out. Apparently when I made the 45 degree cuts on the table saw my blade was out of square just a bit so I had to adjust the openings to account for that. The next one will be better. :gar-Bi
Now the blade fits all the way through.
Shot of the throat it's mostly squared up.
My Son wanted to get in on it with his toy plane.
The plane with the wedge removed. Once I can find some brass rod I can drill for that and hopefully have a tight fitting wedge and can finish her up.
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