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Hi all I’d like to replicate better the swanky details found on some “boutique” moulding planes - specifically the so called “gouge cuts” which I really don’t think are made using gouges these days. See the area in the circle in the pic below. I’m pretty sure they aren’t made using a gouge...

Shouldn’t that be a rod?

10ths is an engineering thing, = 100 thou. For most imperial machine tools, 1 tenth is the distance a table or cutter will move with 1 revolution of a control wheel. 10 revolutions of the wheel is 1 inch. Thousands of an inch are a perfect measurement for machining metals, lathes, milling...

Cuts perfectly 😎 All it needs now is the ovolo mould.

Basically finished my mother plane today. Tomorrow morning, it will have a fence screwed on it, and then it’s a question of hardening the iron, tuning it up, and getting it to work well. I’m quite pleased with that, everyone of these I do, seems to be a level better than the last. Not perfect...

plus.... silent, can’t remove fingers and doesn’t try to kill children, doesn’t make dust, much better finish from a blade, much more controllable, easily sharpenable, takes up less space, no power cord to trip over, doesnt need power, infinitely cooler and you have the pleasure of actually...

I have a knife like this. I made it from an offcut of O1 in 5 mins. I wanted a knife that could register flat to a plane sole for marking plane irons for grinding. Now it’s my go to knife, because I can get it sharp enough to reliably sever cross grain fibres, which my other knives all seem to...

Looks to me like the wood is soft and the grain is the right direction but wide. It could be easy to take too deep a cut/push the blade down too far and effectively end up “parting” the wood rather than cutting it. A bit like trying to force a saw through a cut faster than it wants to go and...

I’ve been making my own. Funnily enough, that’s what I was doing today. I may as well explain how, because absolutely nobody knows that I do all this stuff. My wife just thinks I am “down the Shed” Start with a sheet of 1/8 inch 01 tool steel. Blue and mark up. Then I have this little...

I must be completely mad. Sash moulding plane modular mother plane system coming along. The plane on the bottom will cut a basic sash profile and plane to the right will cut an ovolo profile into it. Idea is I can make an ogee/astragal profile plane or whatever and then be the proud owner of...

Picture of the *side* of the workpiece, next to the cut you are trying to make? Just to see how the grain really runs. You might like to look at the edges of the iron also. You want it to come to a nice sharp corner with a relief angle of about 5 deg (95 deg overall).

The cunning plan is beginning to work… I made a mother plane (top left) to copy the profile of a Griffiths sash ovolo plane (bottom left) and transfer it to another plane blank (test piece bottom right). Not perfect yet but getting there.

“You don’t *look* 49” ”I know, I am only 47. But here’s a note from my mum. They are for her” ”are you sure?” ”Oh definitely.” ”Just this once then. But next time ask her to buy them herself”.

Soles profiled, 1 wedge and iron done, might even get them working tomorrow. Getting better at plane mortises :)

More teardrop mortises. They are so lovely .. 😻

Pretty much everything I have is second hand or vintage. Quite happy with something that needs fixing or renovating. Spec: small, cheap bench top bandsaw that can mill large logs or resaw thick stock :)

I know everyone is desperate to tell me my boxwood isn’t boxwood. And you may all be right. But: It is unbelievably hard. it makes a very fine white sawdust when cut. I’ve never come across anything else with that texture except boxwood. This is difficult to tell from pics. Those samples in...

oh well, whatever it is, it’ll make lovely chisel handles n stuff, if I can mill it down.

I have lots of bits and pieces made of boxwood so I am pretty familiar with what it looks like. The lump of wood I have is way harder, denser and heavier than anything else I’ve used - beech oak etc. plus it gives a very fine white dust when turned or cut. It’s either boxwood or a species very...

The beech isn’t too bad actually. I’ve had a lot worse and suffered because of it. Re machines etc, the plane making I’m doing is entirely by hand with the exception of cutting the rough blank by table saw, and drilling a guide hole for the mortise which I do using a pillar drill and a jig. I...