Galoot Smoother II

[Benchwayze]

Yeah ... Me too... A very nice looking plane.

Oh by the way,
I believe a 'rellie' is a relative?

Make sure you give them a great time. Plenty of the Golden Nectar, so they'll be more like 'Tinnies'. Full of beer, but with rubber legs!

Have a good one.

John !

 

[head clansman]

hi jim


ok you take the piss :lol:, it going to be touch and go if i can get home tomorrow woke up again this morning it snowing again , with lot more forecast throughout the day and all through the night then it's forecast to get really heavy snow , airports still open at the mo so just got to keep fingers crossed , plus i see bristol is set to have snow on sunday when my flight is due to land .

any way jim it's no excuse for you to stop, temperature it's only zero here at the mo warmest it 's been since i got here , so come on plenty of pics please at least i can see your progress even if i cant get to my workshop just yet , might even get to see your pics even if i'm sat in the airport waiting for the weather to clear shivering my bits oft. hc :wink:

 

[jimi43]

Where abouts are you HC?

The weather has closed in really badly here in Kent....my wife JUST made it to the shops...I sent her out with the Huskys and a whip...oh and a bit of an old pallet!!! :wink:

I dug out the workshop (drifts were two feet up the door!) and put on a total of FIVE KILOWATTS of heating...raised it from minus four to about zero....so decided to be quick....

The belt on my main sander snapped some weeks ago and I have been meaning to get a new on on fleaBay but alas...have procrastinated. SO...a tip from a good mate of mine..out came the crappy B&Q belt sander...clamped upside down in my vise....

It has quite a nice long flat bit - not enough to flatten a big plane but ideal for this little No110

Not ideal but I kept it as flat as possible and used a course grit belt...there were a LOT of scratches on this old trooper!

I don't get dressed up like Scott every day but it was bleedin' FREEEEEZING!

Once both sides and the sole were ground down flat removing all high spots and low spots, scratches and rust...I transferred over to my trusty flat marble tile block...

I used a medium grit (120) here....against a simple fence clamped to the bench and tile with my trusty holdfast.........

Keeping even pressure on the sole and then the sides hard against the fence....

and after only 10 minutes I could see where the remaining high and low spots were....

In actual fact....there were very few....if I were being hyper-critical I think I could spend another 10 minutes flattening the sole but my this time my toes were almost frozen and I wasn't about to do a Ranulf Feinnes and cut them off with a handy jigsaw....so we will leave it like that for today at least chaps...

NOW....short of shelling out for some Brazilian Rosewood or some English Boxwood ala Sauer....what would YOU guys suggest I use as infill wood?

That and the frog angle is still being pondered....I await suggestions Derek and other expert plane makers here.....

Jim

 

[Digit]

Blimey it does look cold Jim, but it obviously isn't beating you!

Roy.

 

[head clansman]

hi jim

I'm in holland (almera buiten) not that far from you as the crow flies with heavy snow forecast for tonight , let hope they get it wrong , good start on the plane by the way need's a bit of refining yet, but don't get to cold doing it, thats how accident happen, it's not worth it . hc

ps it snowed this morning for about an hr it's started again about twenty mins ago so no let up yet it coming from the east and it's coming your way , sorry . :roll:

pps cor blimey nearly forgot brazilian hardwood , or something that will show some wild grain in it with a high polish finish , make it stand out .

 

[Mike Wingate]

I keep on going to the workshop to fan my acoustic guitar top. !0 Min's cutting pine strips. Back to the kitchen sink and scrub some Pyrex oven dishes clean with wire wool and HOT water. Back to the bench, plane the fan struts to profile and sand. Back to the sink. Cut and shape and a halving joint on the main cross brace, glue it down. Clean oven door. Writing this whilst waiting for the kettle to boil. -3 in my workshop/garage, next to the metal door with a gap at the bottom. Really cold. I spent about 1/2 hour on Thursday at 8 pm in there, cutting and gluing the struts to the inside back of the guitar. I felt really cold and weak. Even my pizza did not help. All the tools are cold, I can see my breath, a concrete floor.

 

[jimi43]

Hi Mike

I'm leaving my Martin clone until the Spring...there is no way I am taking all that expensive wood out in this weather...and the glue doesn't set anyway unless you use hide....

Every time I go to the shop there is another inch of snow on the path and my footprints have disappeared....the M20 is virtually shut...

I'm off to watch an old film!

Cheers mate

Jim

 

[Benchwayze]

Jim... I have a chunk of Honduras Mahogany. Nicely grained.

I also have enough Maple if you wanted a lighter wood.

Is either of any use to you?

Regards
John

 

[jimi43]

Jim... I have a chunk of Honduras Mahogany. Nicely grained.

I also have enough Maple if you wanted a lighter wood.

Is either of any use to you?

Regards
John

Oh man John that is awfully kind of you...yes indeed...I will PM you...

You are a star!

Jim

 

[jimi43]

We are getting there....sat down with the lump of marble...a hot cuppa and "Touch of Frost" which was FAR better than the touch of frost outside and managed to get the donor plane close to what I would be happy with for now...

Now for a bit of investigation into the infill....

Cheers

Jim