Have I picked the wrong hobby?

[Garno]

Errrmm...

*looking sheepish*
That was a bit of a tongue in cheek joke tbh. Pretty sure it's a plane hammer too!

I certainly didn't make it!
Sorry! Just my stupid sense of humour....
:-"

Due to the fact I have no idea what a plane hammer is or does I will tell everyone who see's it that it is an acorn smasher upper.

 

[MikeG.]

.........Due to the fact I have no idea what a plane hammer is or does.......

A sledge hammer is for hammering sledges. A toffee hammer is for hammering toffee. See where this is going?

Yep, it's for adjusting wooden planes. Tap them front or back to loosen the wedge, tap the wedge home, tap the blade sideways for lateral adjustment.......

 

[Garno]

.........Due to the fact I have no idea what a plane hammer is or does.......

A sledge hammer is for hammering sledges. A toffee hammer is for hammering toffee. See where this is going?

And a ball pein hammer is used for? ............. Actually I would rather not know :shock:

 

[D_W]

peining balls, of course. What else?

Actually, if you haven't found a use for one yet but you stick around the hand tools hobby long enough to make and repair your tools and older ones, respectively, you'll use the ball end of one of those hammers sooner or later to move metal.

This plane:
https://i.imgur.com/ZBtX1Et.jpg

and this one:
https://i.imgur.com/ZCIdfyZ.jpg

and many others in my shop received enough business end of one of those hammers to make my hand and forearm hurt for days.

 

[Garno]

peining balls, of course. What else?

Actually, if you haven't found a use for one yet but you stick around the hand tools hobby long enough to make and repair your tools and older ones, respectively, you'll use the ball end of one of those hammers sooner or later to move metal.

This plane:
https://i.imgur.com/ZBtX1Et.jpg

and this one:
https://i.imgur.com/ZCIdfyZ.jpg

and many others in my shop received enough business end of one of those hammers to make my hand and forearm hurt for days.

Beautiful work I like both of those =D>

 

[D_W]

Thanks - though I have to say that once you can do basic woodworking, making an infill plane is only a matter of care - neither of my two there are really superb aesthetic examples, but they work well.

As you're working through dovetails - yet again in metal planes of this type, it becomes a matter of....

.....learning to make dovetails!!

With an infill, it just takes longer to make the dovetails and when there's a little error, you fix it by smashing both metal parts until they bend into each other.

As with woodworking, the concept is simple. Functional and not aesthetically perfect is very attainable. geometric perfection like you'd seen in karl holtey's pins and tails....takes much more experimentation and rigidity with method.

The shooting plane is skew, which complicated things - it wouldn't be a good first plane, but it can be done. There are ways to do this metal work almost entirely by hand, just like woodwork - I use few power tools making a plane like these.

 

[Bm101]

Garno you have a pm.

 

[Garno]

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