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My secret santa kindly sent me a Veritas wood plane kit so as I had a bit of time to myself this week, I thought I'd try and cobble it together.
I learned a few things this week:
1. Zero clearance inserts are fine until the weather causes the timber to swell
2. Anything made in USA/Canada tend to be in imperial units, this creates a problem when all my bits are metric.
3. When cutting wood, it's wise to check I'm cutting the correct face.
4. Making wood planes isn't as easy as it looks!
I cut one of the Beech blanks incorrectly so I had to use a bit of oak with Beech cheeks, I managed to get round the imperial to metric issue by wiggling the wood in the pillar drill to get that extra 5mm for the cross pin to fit, unfortunately I drilled the hole incorrectly so that the wedge didn't fit, I re-sawed it so that it fits but now it's a bit too thin.
It did sort of work and I managed to plane an old bit of sapele I had lying around but I'm not that happy with it, good thing is I can take it apart and do another one which I intend to do when I next have a bit of free time.... good fun though!
My secret santa kindly sent me a Veritas wood plane kit so as I had a bit of time to myself this week, I thought I'd try and cobble it together.
I learned a few things this week:
1. Zero clearance inserts are fine until the weather causes the timber to swell
2. Anything made in USA/Canada tend to be in imperial units, this creates a problem when all my bits are metric.
3. When cutting wood, it's wise to check I'm cutting the correct face.
4. Making wood planes isn't as easy as it looks!
I cut one of the Beech blanks incorrectly so I had to use a bit of oak with Beech cheeks, I managed to get round the imperial to metric issue by wiggling the wood in the pillar drill to get that extra 5mm for the cross pin to fit, unfortunately I drilled the hole incorrectly so that the wedge didn't fit, I re-sawed it so that it fits but now it's a bit too thin.
It did sort of work and I managed to plane an old bit of sapele I had lying around but I'm not that happy with it, good thing is I can take it apart and do another one which I intend to do when I next have a bit of free time.... good fun though!
