Quick repair: new sole for a reeding plane

[Pekka Huhta]

Just as a quick note: one method for replacing the insert piece on a wooden plane. (What should the "insert" be called? If they are "boxed" planes, is the insert piece a box then?)

Half of the insert was gone, but I managed to plane a short length of the appropriate profile with the plane anyway.

I made a slot to the molding for a scraper. Scraper blank came from an old cast steel saw blade.

The whole idea on this is that the profile is super fast to file down using the molding as a guide. And you practically can't ruin the scraper profile in accident, the wood protects it very well. Only thing you might have to do is touch up some of the deepest grooves after removing the scraper from the piece of molding.

Just an ordinary scratch stock and a piece of beech. I did not have any "proper" wood for the insert, but beech seems to hold up fine.

I used hide glue (hot glue) to glue the insert together. Just that the insert could be removed later for any future replacement.

On the last pic some reeds on a piece of molding I made for my bathroom.

Making the bathroom moldings is a story worth of another thread, I'll write it down one day.

Pekka

 

[Chris Knight]

Pekka,
That is a great job - well done!

Boxing is indeed a piece of box - boxwood to be precise. It is used as it is hard and tough, resisting wear. It can also be shaped very finely for quirks etc.

 

[bugbear]

Just as a quick note: one method for replacing the insert piece on a wooden plane. (What should the "insert" be called? If they are "boxed" planes, is the insert piece a box then?)

Half of the insert was gone, but I managed to plane a short length of the appropriate profile with the plane anyway.
I made a slot to the molding for a scraper. Scraper blank came from an old cast steel saw blade.

The whole idea on this is that the profile is super fast to file down using the molding as a guide. And you practically can't ruin the scraper profile in accident, the wood protects it very well. Only thing you might have to do is touch up some of the deepest grooves after removing the scraper from the piece of molding.

Just an ordinary scratch stock and a piece of beech. I did not have any "proper" wood for the insert, but beech seems to hold up fine.

I used hide glue (hot glue) to glue the insert together. Just that the insert could be removed later for any future replacement.

On the last pic some reeds on a piece of molding I made for my bathroom.

Making the bathroom moldings is a story worth of another thread, I'll write it down one day.

Pekka

Great job - although I'd have probably just a scratch stock to do the reeding, not repair a reeding plane!!!

(but then I'm a fan of scratch stocks)

http://www.geocities.com/plybench/scratch.html

BugBear

 

[Pekka Huhta]

Great job - although I'd have probably just a scratch stock to do the reeding, not repair a reeding plane!!!

I thought that might come up. I did try :wink:

Although the pine I'm using is the best I've seen (recycled timber from old roof beams) pine doesn't scrape well at all, it's too soft. And then again, I'll have to do something with my planes to justify them to Her. She found out I'm going over a hundred and took a bit of an attitude against that

Pekka

 

[Alf]

Smashing job, Pekka. =D>

Great job - although I'd have probably just a scratch stock to do the reeding, not repair a reeding plane!!!

P'shaw. I'd have got out a combi... :wink: :lol:

Cheers, Alf

 

[bugbear]

Great job - although I'd have probably just a scratch stock to do the reeding, not repair a reeding plane!!!

I thought that might come up. I did try :wink:

Although the pine I'm using is the best I've seen (recycled timber from old roof beams) pine doesn't scrape well at all, it's too soft. And then again, I'll have to do something with my planes to justify them to Her. She found out I'm going over a hundred and took a bit of an attitude against that

Pekka

Asbolutely superb reasoning and actions =D>

BugBear

 

[Wiley Horne]

Pekka,

Another great post--thank you! It was a brilliant thought to make a scratch to cut the complementary image of the profile cut by the blade. An exceptional post.

Wiley

 

[Pekka Huhta]

P'shaw. I'd have got out a combi... :wink: :lol:

Have mercy, there has to be a limit for trés expensive single irons on eBay, you'll get three good woodies on the price of one 3- or -4 reed cutter. And making a cutter takes days for me, this was handled in an afternoon (sans soaking the hide glue as the previous lot had grown a hair on it).

The irons I have for my combis involve only double beads and no triplets. The most ironic thing is that I did not like the three-reed look on the molding and will probably end up with something like a double bead and a quirk. But at least there is one another plane saved from the oven.

Pekka