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A little plane (150 mm long, 40 mm wide, 30 mm high).

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Body is beech, American Black Walnut and brass. Adjuster mechanism is 303 stainless & brass, lever cap is brass, lever cap nut is 303 stainless.

Intended for use on the shooting board that's built into my travel tool chest & workbench:

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Full build WIP is on my website (along with some photos of it taking shavings): https://www.cgtk.co.uk/woodwork/handtools/toolchest_blockplane/blog/page1

For a better sense of scale, here it is alongside the (also home-made) plane it replaces and a commercial (Quangsheng) low-angle block plane:

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Today added a "blacksmith- style" hammer rack to the window area, below the brace rack.
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Is that a Goodell Pratt down the far right hand side ? the shoulder brace part looks similar.

Cant say anything about the others, and sorry I dont share the same addiction :LOL: but i used to have a big old 2 speed i picked up on a job yonks back and its quite a similar frame.
 
The latest model is a French/Moore trestle. It was around 3 years ago I decided I would be able to complete one of these and I have finally gotten around to it on the course. Not damaging the pointy bits while hand tooling or before glue up was a challenge for me but fortunately the only one i damaged was already on its way to the firewood pile because I had gotten it wrong. Plenty of points to work on but moving in the right direction
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The latest model is a French/Moore trestle. It was around 3 years ago I decided I would be able to complete one of these and I have finally gotten around to it on the course. Not damaging the pointy bits while hand tooling or before glue up was a challenge for me but fortunately the only one i damaged was already on its way to the firewood pile because I had gotten it wrong. Plenty of points to work on but moving in the right direction
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Curious, how long did it take to make this trestle? Way above my skills!
 
The latest model is a French/Moore trestle. It was around 3 years ago I decided I would be able to complete one of these and I have finally gotten around to it on the course. Not damaging the pointy bits while hand tooling or before glue up was a challenge for me but fortunately the only one i damaged was already on its way to the firewood pile because I had gotten it wrong. Plenty of points to work on but moving in the right direction
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Hi @Harry581010 ,
Amazing workmanship. Which course enabled to gain the knowledge and skills to complete this project?
Fred
 
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Curious, how long did it take to make this trestle? Way above my skills!
and time consuming bit is the drawing. I think once the drawing was completed, so just machining to dimensions and then marking and hand tooling all the cuts, it was probably around 4 days work. I could be out by a fair bit with that though because a lot of it is done after work for a few hours at a time
 
Is that a Goodell Pratt down the far right hand side ? the shoulder brace part looks similar.

Cant say anything about the others, and sorry I dont share the same addiction :LOL: but i used to have a big old 2 speed i picked up on a job yonks back and its quite a similar frame.
Greetings to Glasgow... you have a keen eye! It is a Millers Falls #12, two-speed, with an adjustable handle. I just finished restoring it. It is a solid "keeper", IMO! Thanks...
 
Greetings to Glasgow... you have a keen eye! It is a Millers Falls #12, two-speed, with an adjustable handle. I just finished restoring it. It is a solid "keeper", IMO! Thanks...
Cant be that keen, i was totally wrong.

Though this is the one, and they are similar in the frame
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Years before I owned a pillar drill, i used to make and sell brass pipes(the smoking type) And the only thing I had in the tiny workshop was a few hand drills, the Goodell being the main one I used.

TBH honest i didnt even have a bench or engineers vice and used to hold the brass billets in the hinge side door jamb as i could use one foot to apply the pressure on the door to hold it tight, and both hands on the drill.
Not easy sometimes, trying to drill a 3" long hole with a 2 1/2mm bit.


Theres certainly a lot of history tied up with the wood trades and hand drills. But I think theres always a place for a couple even in the most modern of workshops. I've a couple of old Stanley's hanging up. a brace, which is the best tool for screwing in m12 bolts into stonework where a battery drill would struggle, and a small Stanley 803 which is very handy for small bits.
 
Glazed cabinet, it's only plain but took longer than I expected to make.

The doors, frames and shelves are Maple and the sides Birch ply, in fact the only bit of MDF I managed to sneak in is the back!

Got to include a photo from the workshop.

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Not quite finished yet as waiting for the glass, some LED lights, knobs and have the skirting to sort. It's about 8'6" high so makes quite a statement.

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I ended up painting it (which I normally try to avoid), paint was Benjamin Moore Scuff-X provided by the customer, seemed like decent stuff but wants to be at £100+ a tin!
 

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