Converting a curmudgeon

[condeesteso]

"Gaps in the workload, BU planes"... like birds of a feather. (You hum it, I'll sing it.)

 

[Doug B]

Gaps in the workload, BU planes, whatever next :shock: :shock:

Don`t worry Brian, normal service has been resumed :-" :---) :-D

 

[Doug B]

I fetched some gauge plate yesterday from Cromwell`s & am back to my curmudgeonly ways :lol:

I was interested to find that on the packaging not only the typical analysis, but also hardening & tempering information.

So this morning i made a start on making some spare blades, first off the blanks were cut on the powered hacksaw.

Cutting all 3 to width in one go gave time for a cuppa


Next the sides were milled to width,

Then the ends squared & cut to length.

The holes & slots were then made.

A bevel was then milled.

& finally before cleaning up on the linsher the top angles were cut.

The new blades ready for hardening, they are not quite identical to the original on the left but all the important details are

Hope it`s of interest to some one, i`ll post a few more piccys of the hardening once i`ve fired the BBQ up



Cheers.

 

[Karl]

Brilliant Doug - if you decide to make any more you can put me down for a few!

Cheers

Karl

 

[Paul Chapman]

They look good, Doug 8) 8) Great pictures.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Harbo]

Nice work - I keep meaning to have a go for my LV's but too big a task for my tiny Unimat. Will have to borrow my friends Centec when he gets it up and running?
How are you going to cook them - too big for blowtorches I think?


Rod

 

[jimi43]

Hey Doug!

Swap your mill for my kiln! All that technology and then a BBQ!!!!

I suppose you can't cook sausages in the kiln afterwards though....mmmm....maybe you can!

Kiln fired burgers anyone?

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Brilliant Doug! Make us a little bullnose Slater iron mate...please...pretty please! :mrgreen:

Jim

 

[Jacob]

I had a go with Brian's, then bought a QS (sold it on) then a LV jack (sold it on) and finally settled (so far) on just the one posh plane - the LV la smoother.
I reckon just the one is all I need - for the occasional bit of wild grain where it will go were the others won't. After that it's the ROS.
What surprised me was that A2 steel is quite easy to grind (belt sander) and then hone (freehand). But to keep an edge it needs a touch up just as often as any other blade

 

[Richard T]

That's the way to do it Doug - far fewer blisters.

 

[Doug B]

Brilliant Doug! Make us a little bullnose Slater iron mate...please...pretty please! :mrgreen:

Jim

Jim that bullnose Slater was a new one on me till i googled it, funnily enough an old customer (75) retired joiner gave me some old kit the other day, he`d bought it off a retiring joiner when he was an apprentice.

The bullnose was one of the things he gave me, it`s well used & needs a new blade as the old boy had ground down an old Stanley blade so he could use it, there were no markings on it but it looks like the Slater only very battered.

Also in that photo is the brass front cap of an old infill which i`d not looked at since being given it a year or so ago, it is in a dreadful state with a nail hammered into the wood at the front in an attempt to keep it in place. It looks to say" Spiers ayr" on the cap, so might be worth fettling

Both of these are on an ever growing list of re-works, which may take some time, but if you want to give me the dimensions of the slater, when i get round to making a blade for it i`d happily make 2, though don`t hold ya breath, permission for the LA jack was conditional on a lot of AWO furniture being produced :roll: .

Cheers.

 

[Scouse]

Great work Doug, those blades are superb.

I have to say that the fantastic level of tool making skill present on this forum never fails to amaze me!

 

[Doug B]

What surprised me was that A2 steel is quite easy to grind (belt sander) and then hone (freehand). But to keep an edge it needs a touch up just as often as any other blade

Has surprised me to, I also wasn`t expecting my old oil stones to be up to sharpening those second hand Japanese chisels i got off Dodge but they worked beautifully.



Cheers.

 

[condeesteso]

Doug B... Crikey. Stunning looking blades. Can you knock out LN 62s and 7 1/2s like that, please...

 

[DTR]

That's some nice metalwork Doug

 

[Doug B]

Thanks for all the positive feedback chaps, i should say for those that don`t know, the engineering gear belongs to my best mate, so while i have free use & supervision, i`m not an engineer.

So tea time arrived & the make shift BBQ lit :shock:

With the aid of a cheap hot air stripper the blades were bought up to cherry red & held there for 15 minutes, after which they were cooled in old engine oil, que action shots.

I cleaned up one of the blades & as i type it is cooling in the oven after being re-heated in there to 150 degrees C

Finally as a BBQ is a bit of a novelty round here & not wanting to waste good charcoal, an oven shelf was placed across the bricks & Linda McCartney did us proud :lol: :lol:

Thanks for looking, it`s been a fun day, i`m off to watch the cricket highlights



Cheers.

 

[Modernist]

Cracking stuff Doug. Are you going to surface grind the backs of the blades?
It will be interesting to compare the edge holding qualities when they are all honed up. I think the only place where you may lose out is the high angle blade which will wear (blunt) faster in O1.
The trick really is that you can temper gauge plate in the oven rather than watching for colours with a blow torch.
What hardness are you expecting from 150 deg?

 

[jimi43]

Hi Doug

That bullnose is virtually the same as mine but my one is more Norris...Slater produced castings for quite a few companies. Mine has exactly the same problem...old Stanley iron...way to thin..wedge doesn't close tight.

If you are making one..I would love one too...just let me know what you want for it. I can harden both in the kiln if you want? I use the exact same 01 steel in all my irons..I really should get the old hand hacksaw out and the files and make a bullnose iron but I too have far to many projects at the moment...so if you want to share the load let me know.

Jim

 

[Benchwayze]

Yes, the Veritas is also a fully adjustable, big, well made Mitre plane.
I have it's smaller brother sold as a "smoother" ... It's a Mitre too.

Richard....

I want one. :mrgreen:
:tool:

 

[Benchwayze]

Thanks for all the positive feedback chaps, i should say for those that don`t know, the engineering gear belongs to my best mate, so while i have free use & supervision, i`m not an engineer.


Cheers.

I am told Whale Oil is the biz for quenching Doug. I wonder does your mate have some hidden away? :wink:

John

 

[Modernist]

I take it the Beans quenched one is the low angle and the Baxters the high