I've made wooden thumb planes before but now I'm trying to make a batch of them more quickly. These are for making violins and other musical instruments, and any other fine and detailed work. I only use hand tools.
I'll add that I don't use the what seems to be ubiquitous glueing-together-several-machine-sawn-pieces-of-wood method! Nothing wrong with it but it's not for me.
So here goes:
I can get 6 planes out of the 2 triangular maple scraps.
And 3 out of the side of this scrap (left over from violin scroll).
Total of 9 planes:
All cut out and sides squared. My sawing technique is crap so it too me quite while to plane the sides square..
It's been a while since I made my last one (the finished one in the pics), so I'm going to do one at first to make sure it all works then do the rest in a batch. One marked out:
Using a 3mm chisel:
A V notch cut in the sole and 1mm holes drilled:
This is actually a previous plane I made but it show the holes more clearly:
To be continued!
I'll add that I don't use the what seems to be ubiquitous glueing-together-several-machine-sawn-pieces-of-wood method! Nothing wrong with it but it's not for me.
So here goes:
I can get 6 planes out of the 2 triangular maple scraps.
And 3 out of the side of this scrap (left over from violin scroll).
Total of 9 planes:
All cut out and sides squared. My sawing technique is crap so it too me quite while to plane the sides square..
It's been a while since I made my last one (the finished one in the pics), so I'm going to do one at first to make sure it all works then do the rest in a batch. One marked out:
Using a 3mm chisel:
A V notch cut in the sole and 1mm holes drilled:
This is actually a previous plane I made but it show the holes more clearly:
To be continued!