jonbikebod
Established Member
Derek,
I had been intending to make a stop-chamfer plane for a while and used some of your ideas for this.
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Made from false acacia, as I didn’t intend this to be more than a working plane and so initially it had a plastic knob; in that form it was even more of an eye-sore so I made a brass inserted knob in pear. I have still to complete the final shaping as I wanted to use it first to find out where my hands fell and so what shaping was needed. The blade is bedded at 20º BU. Strangely without a mouth, the lower angle has worked best on every type of wood I have so far tried; so long as grain direction is observed. As your plane has this ‘design feature’, I wondered if you had found the same. Entirely by accident I found mine works rather well as a chisel plane as well.
Jon.
I had been intending to make a stop-chamfer plane for a while and used some of your ideas for this.
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Made from false acacia, as I didn’t intend this to be more than a working plane and so initially it had a plastic knob; in that form it was even more of an eye-sore so I made a brass inserted knob in pear. I have still to complete the final shaping as I wanted to use it first to find out where my hands fell and so what shaping was needed. The blade is bedded at 20º BU. Strangely without a mouth, the lower angle has worked best on every type of wood I have so far tried; so long as grain direction is observed. As your plane has this ‘design feature’, I wondered if you had found the same. Entirely by accident I found mine works rather well as a chisel plane as well.
Jon.
