Coffin Toother.

[swagman]

Hi all. Attached are photo's of coffin shaped toothing plane I just completed. The iron is bedded 89.5* . (Measured from the face of the iron to the sole of the plane.)

Most of my previous toothing planes builds I have experimented with the iron bedded at around 55 - 60*. From ongoing correspondence with John Walkowiak, who suggested I would achieve greater performance benefit if I moved to a more upright bed. The results of doing so was quite measurable, and I am now in complete agreement with John.

More details on the new plane.

8 inches in length, and has a total weight of 2.4 Ib's (1.025 kg). The mouth clearance was set at 1/8".

I rans performance tests on some difficult grained Australian Blackwood. Very sweet. The traditional coffin shape to the body of the plane also delivers in spades, making the hand plane extremely to hold.

Now for the photo's.

regards Stewie;













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[Racers]

Very nice.

Pete

 

[PeterBassett]

Very nice. What's it made from?

 

[Noggsy]

Looks lovely Stewie. I'd like to see some close-ups of the planed wood and the blade teeth if that's possible?

 

[swagman]

Very nice. What's it made from?

Hi Peter. The wood is Merbau.

Stewie;

 

[swagman]

Looks lovely Stewie. I'd like to see some close-ups of the planed wood and the blade teeth if that's possible?

Can do. Will post when completed.

Stewie;

 

[swagman]

Very nice.

Pete

Thanks Pete. Appreciate the feedback.

Stewie;

 

[Corneel]

hi Stewiw, fine job, it looks marvelous again. Interesting the strike button at the back of the blade.

For what purpose do you use this plane? Like a veneering plane or more like a jack plane?

 

[Racers]

I haver used mine for levelling wood block work tops, it doesn't care about the grain direction, level then card scraper to finish.

Pete

 

[Harbo]

Nice plane - looking at it from the top, you could almost move the iron and wedge to the front and create another angle?

You do have some interesting woods "down under".

Rod

 

[swagman]

Nice plane - looking at it from the top, you could almost move the iron and wedge to the front and create another angle?

You do have some interesting woods "down under".

Rod

Hi Rod. Merbau is a South East Asian hardwood.

Stewie;

 

[swagman]

I haver used mine for levelling wood block work tops, it doesn't care about the grain direction, level then card scraper to finish.

Pete

A very good choice of plane to use for that purpose Pete. Would enjoy having a look at the toothing plane you have.

Stewie;

 

[Steve1066]

Sweet looking plane

 

[Racers]

I haver used mine for levelling wood block work tops, it doesn't care about the grain direction, level then card scraper to finish.

Pete

A very good choice of plane to use for that purpose Pete. Would enjoy having a look at the toothing plane you have.

Stewie;

Its just a standard factory made toothing plane much like yours but in beech.

I do also have a toothing blade that fits in my infill scraper plane.

Pete

 

[Harbo]

Stewie- Well I suppose SE Asia is down under?

Rod

 

[swagman]

hi Stewiw, fine job, it looks marvelous again. Interesting the strike button at the back of the blade.

For what purpose do you use this plane? Like a veneering plane or more like a jack plane?

Hi Corneel. There was little room to install the strike button on the back end of the plane, so I took a gamble that it I could achieve the same results by installing it where I did. The results was excellent at shocking the wedge loose.

At this early stage I would classify this plane's primary strength is in surface dressing curly & interlocking grained timbers. I have little experience in dealing with veneer work, but see no reason why this plane would not work well given that job task.

For surface flattening, this type of high tpi toothing iron would do the job well given a much longer bodied plane.

Being a high tpi toothing iron, its designed not to remove large amounts of surface material in a short period of time. Far better to have available a much coarser tooth pattern with a much deeper cutting profile for that purpose.

Stewie;

 

[swagman]

Sweet looking plane

Thanks Steve.

 

[swagman]

I haver used mine for levelling wood block work tops, it doesn't care about the grain direction, level then card scraper to finish.

Pete

A very good choice of plane to use for that purpose Pete. Would enjoy having a look at the toothing plane you have.

Stewie;

Its just a standard factory made toothing plane much like yours but in beech.

I do also have a toothing blade that fits in my infill scraper plane.

Pete

Interesting Pete. Is the toothing plane bedded close to 90* like mine is. What angle is the toothing blade when its fitted in your infil scraper.

Stewie;

 

[Racers]

A very good choice of plane to use for that purpose Pete. Would enjoy having a look at the toothing plane you have.

Stewie;

Its just a standard factory made toothing plane much like yours but in beech.

I do also have a toothing blade that fits in my infill scraper plane.

Pete

Interesting Pete. Is the toothing plane bedded close to 90* like mine is. What angle is the toothing blade when its fitted in your infil scraper.

Stewie;

Yes its 90deg.

My scraper plane is adjustable so it can be any angle I want.



Pete

 

[swagman]

Thanks for the photo Pete. I understand the set up with your scraper plane much clearer now.

regards; Stewie.