woodbloke
Established Member
After recent threads about high angle planes I thought I would have a go at making a Krenovian woodie with a blade pitched at 55 deg, no particular reason for that. I have a copy of JK's book which gives very good, detailed information on construction of this type of plane. I followed the text quite carefully and the pics illustrate the making process and final plane.
The main body is made from maple and all bits are dowelled together for location purposes. The pin can be seen which is turned and shaped from an oddment of oak.
This shot shows the sides in place; the very observant will notice that it took 3 shots to get the pin in the right place!
After the glue up I used the Air Press to veneer some rosewood onto each side to cover up all the dowels and the goofs in locating the pin. It was then roughly shaped and the ends smoothed on the disc sander. I worked a chamfer onto the top edge with the router. The wedge was made out of some rosewood and fettled in to make a decent fit between the blade and pin - tricky
The blade is a 50mm cutter from an old wooden coffin smoother, though its the breaker iron which has had some additional attention - its been polished on the leather wheel of my Tormek and has a bevel worked on the upper side whilst the under side has been smoothed on a fine DMT stone
The mouth is gradually being widened here on my 'plane sole fettling jig' so that the result is:
The final result is shown in the next pic:
Finish is several coats of French polish and wax
Does it work - yes it does but is quite tricky to set up and seems to cut with a scraping, rather than a cutting action so it probably needs a little more careful tuning - Rob
The main body is made from maple and all bits are dowelled together for location purposes. The pin can be seen which is turned and shaped from an oddment of oak.
This shot shows the sides in place; the very observant will notice that it took 3 shots to get the pin in the right place!
After the glue up I used the Air Press to veneer some rosewood onto each side to cover up all the dowels and the goofs in locating the pin. It was then roughly shaped and the ends smoothed on the disc sander. I worked a chamfer onto the top edge with the router. The wedge was made out of some rosewood and fettled in to make a decent fit between the blade and pin - tricky
The blade is a 50mm cutter from an old wooden coffin smoother, though its the breaker iron which has had some additional attention - its been polished on the leather wheel of my Tormek and has a bevel worked on the upper side whilst the under side has been smoothed on a fine DMT stone
The mouth is gradually being widened here on my 'plane sole fettling jig' so that the result is:
The final result is shown in the next pic:
Finish is several coats of French polish and wax
Does it work - yes it does but is quite tricky to set up and seems to cut with a scraping, rather than a cutting action so it probably needs a little more careful tuning - Rob
