Let's see how much I can butcher communicating this.
Sunday evening, I was cutting a bead in some trim for my kitchen. Trim is cherry, beading plane is one of a set of old slipped griffiths beads I bought a few years ago.
The beading plane has full boxing for the profile instead of just an eight inch thick strip running down to the quirk.
As I was planing, I noticed a smell familiar to me with power tools - burning cherry. I thought for a second, looked down at the cherry and saw some burn marks on it, despite what wasn't particularly vigorous planing. I looked at the boxing, and there was a small burned spot on the boxing (not deep).
These planes are fairly precious to me (no interest in making beads), so I stopped, and thought and figured that perhaps I was smelling the wearing off of a burned spot that was already there.
I resumed planing, and the smell was quite strong and sure enough, it was actually occurring from the friction of the cherry on the boxing.
I don't recall ever having this occur to such a large degree - I've heated planes before and gotten minimal smells, but this was quite pungent. I'm certain that if I wanted to needlessly burn a large groove in the boxing, I could've gotten visible smoke.
Have you seen this before?
I had no paste wax handy, so I put paraffin on the outside of the bead in order for it to make its way onto the plane boxing as I planed (pretty difficult to apply it to the bead directly).
Another pleasant surprise in this is that this set of beads came from a dealer who is not well regarded here - tea and teak. They were about 220 pounds for 8 planes, and all in good nick - probably a small fortune for beads in the UK, but good beads are not found here in the US in large sets. Lots of cheaply made planes (finding a greenfield or auburn bead that needs rework is plenty common, just little in terms of planes with the level of construction of the griffits). Despite this plane being out of use for decades, it needed no alignment to work. The iron wasn't ideal in terms of profile, but it was close enough to not have any issues in finish quality. That's quite a luxury compared to a lot of cheaper made planes that really require a lot of attention to use.
Sunday evening, I was cutting a bead in some trim for my kitchen. Trim is cherry, beading plane is one of a set of old slipped griffiths beads I bought a few years ago.
The beading plane has full boxing for the profile instead of just an eight inch thick strip running down to the quirk.
As I was planing, I noticed a smell familiar to me with power tools - burning cherry. I thought for a second, looked down at the cherry and saw some burn marks on it, despite what wasn't particularly vigorous planing. I looked at the boxing, and there was a small burned spot on the boxing (not deep).
These planes are fairly precious to me (no interest in making beads), so I stopped, and thought and figured that perhaps I was smelling the wearing off of a burned spot that was already there.
I resumed planing, and the smell was quite strong and sure enough, it was actually occurring from the friction of the cherry on the boxing.
I don't recall ever having this occur to such a large degree - I've heated planes before and gotten minimal smells, but this was quite pungent. I'm certain that if I wanted to needlessly burn a large groove in the boxing, I could've gotten visible smoke.
Have you seen this before?
I had no paste wax handy, so I put paraffin on the outside of the bead in order for it to make its way onto the plane boxing as I planed (pretty difficult to apply it to the bead directly).
Another pleasant surprise in this is that this set of beads came from a dealer who is not well regarded here - tea and teak. They were about 220 pounds for 8 planes, and all in good nick - probably a small fortune for beads in the UK, but good beads are not found here in the US in large sets. Lots of cheaply made planes (finding a greenfield or auburn bead that needs rework is plenty common, just little in terms of planes with the level of construction of the griffits). Despite this plane being out of use for decades, it needed no alignment to work. The iron wasn't ideal in terms of profile, but it was close enough to not have any issues in finish quality. That's quite a luxury compared to a lot of cheaper made planes that really require a lot of attention to use.
