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More like it? It’s a bit dusty as I’d just been trying it out.

Awful

Better? Result pretty good actually.

A saw?! 🥺 Ok I will polish it carefully. I can use my polishing wheel to get a perfect finish but won’t that just dub it over?

Well that’s getting closer, 25 deg bevel from my pro edge and a lot of stropping. There’s even a slight “shine” on the gouge cut.

Ok, thanks Johnny. The reason I asked is that I read somewhere (on a carving website) that they should be sharpened at 10 deg so a 25 deg scoop is easy.

Is that the same book that I tried to make the casement window from which generated all the rod vs stick arguments? Looks great btw Ps you should have done it hand tools only

Evening These planes I’m making are starting to work really well, but I’m still not there with recreating some of the finer details. I realised my gouges (which I have very little experience with) may be sharpened incorrectly. Or at least I want to eliminate that as a reason for messing it up...

Working on my #4s today. Making the irons is really hard, particularly when they get this skinny.

Derek, that’s a pretty snazzy jig you have there! I planed a blind side bevel on one of my planes this morning using the shooting board. Luckily it was with the grain. I got an absolutely crisp result. No donkeys ears needed, I marked some lines and did it by eye. Worked a treat. But no matter...

He won’t tell you. It’s a secret 😎

Achievement of the weekend so far has been to nail drilling plane mortises accurately. May not seem like much but this is a #4 plane so a 1/8” bit going down a 3/16” mortise and ending up in the right place rather than out the back or the front or whatever. I’ve wrecked a lot of beech doing this...

I know Jacob, you aren’t wrong. And the results I’ve been getting are pretty good Doing exactly that - planing vertically round the back. Most people wouldn’t notice it isn’t quite perfect. Larry Williams uses a plane with a heavy set, cambered iron, apparently. Perhaps that allows the final...

Derek you are a genius. I’d been wracking my brains all day about that one. Although, it wouldn’t work with my Veritas shooting plane, because that’s specifically right handed, but no problem, I can just use a different one. Up to now I have been doing them with a block plane, but for very...

Wow, totally inspiring 👍 As a lifelong guitarist I don’t dare dabble in luthiery else I’ll never do anything else ever. However seeing yours does make me want to have a go.

Evening If I want to put a bevel on an edge of a piece of wood, I can hold it at the required angle on my shooting board, and it planes a lovely crisp bevel very accurately and quickly on the edge of the board, But if I want to put a mirror bevel on the other side of the same edge, I flip it...

it was a scrap I had lying around. Old planes never had oak boxing - almost always boxwood. Hence the name. Also, the old planes had the boxing “slipped in” at a 45 deg angle, so the grain was facing down and forward. So in fact what I was doing was completely wrong. I was just doing it to...

I knocked out another plane today, partly because I wanted to practice making skinny planes, before having a go at some low number hollows and rounds, and partly cos I wanted to have another go at boxing (although I used a scrap of oak for it, not boxwood,). I thought I might try to make it into...

I put in for my quote from Chalco today. When I get it, everyone can know which planes to avoid.

I started off with power tools. But when you have a sharp bench plane or chisel ready to go, it’s easier and quicker than power tools, makes less noise and mess. That’s how the hand tool thing starts anyway.