Tool pride

[Lillian]

Nice docking station Taffy. I like it.

[Bruce McC]

He who dies with the most planes wins

[joolstacho]

Martin, Squadron ?
-J

[Dominic]

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I'm getting into making wooden planes, particularly for carving archtops which I've been doing a lot lately. Metal planes get hot and burn your fingers, the little palm planes is good for cleaning up the track marks of the scrub plane but it needed an ebony knob on the blade to make it comfortable. I tried the little short brass plane just below the stanley jack plane but it got really hot and was difficult to control. But it looks very cool. I actually use the brass finger planes a lot. Great for doing the recurve area and for carviing braces on flat tops.

However, wooden planes are easy to make and can be shaped anyway you want to suit any job. The ebony sided ones are new, both have short Hock Krenov style blades. A flat grind for the block plane and a curved blade on the top one which is like a scrub plane for hunking off wood on archtops. Worked great on the hard maple, even against the grain. Those blades are beautiful. But the best for archtop carving is the short wooden one 4th from the top. It has a curved sole in both directions and a curved 25mm Hock blade and it just hunks the wood off so fast and easily. It had a larger wedge with a palm rest but it cracked doing the maple back. I need to make another one. I've also just replaced all the blades on the stanley planes and spokeshaves with veritas replacements and they are now very good planes.
The bevel up smoother is new and is beautiful to use.
And for jointing I always use the Gordon, it cuts superlight cuts as clean as can be and is easy to control to correct concave or convex cuts.

Dom

[Taffy Evans]

Thanks Lillian.
He who dies with the most chisels wins, 54 in all [not all shown. If that does'nt do it I'll try clamps, and if that does'nt do it I'll try unfinished instruments.

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[Bruce McC]

WAS then GAS and now TAS what comes next?

[kiwigeo]

About time I did a stock take in the tonewood vault I reckon.....

[charangohabsburg]

WAS then GAS and now TAS what comes next?

As Taffy said...

[...] and if that does'nt do it I'll try unfinished instruments.

... UIAS

And then of course BAS:

(I surely can't compete here)

Not to forget PAS (plans).

[Lillian]

Not a bad collection of books Markus. But there is something to be said for being married to a bookshop manager.

You do have more Big Red Books than I do though. I need to think on that one for a bit.

[Taffy Evans]

No Martin, tonewood not allowed I've seen it, it gets more space than what you work in. Go for smallest work area maybe.

[kiwigeo]

WFIABAS . wooden fruit in a bowl acquisition syndrom

[charangohabsburg]

Thanks for the warning Martin, I'll have a closer look at those fruits. If the two remaining ones indeed are made of wood I immediately have to take some precautions regarding my tonewood pile!

[DarwinStrings]

Thanks for the warning Martin, I'll have a closer look at those fruits. If the two remaining ones indeed are made of wood I immediately have to take some precautions regarding my tonewood pile!

....bit of fibre in you diet Markus?

Jim

[rocket]

Well as i said earlier i can't really compete with my, by comparison, very modest fleet of hand planes, so i reckon the winner should be the one who dies with the biggest hand held buzzer, and i reckon this monster i've dug out of moth balls just to have it's photo taken should give me the winning edge I haven't used it in years coz every time i pick it up i end up with some sort of muscular skeletal injury. anyways, if that doesn't do it, i reckon having the biggest fret hammer should get me over the line!!!!
Read'm and weep
Cheers''''
Rod

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[Tonxi]

This is a nice little plane that Greg Smallman gave to me. It takes razor blades. It is curved at one end for inside curves and it has an open ended mounting for getting into corners at the other.
Why is the other blade on an angle?

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[Nick]

This is a nice little plane that Greg Smallman gave to me.

You receive gifts from Greg Smallman?? I bow before you sir

Why is the other blade on an angle?

I'm guessing for fine figured timbers and burl veneers e.t.c, it's cutting by shearing across the grain rather than trying to cut along it. Just as if you have a hand plane that's juddering on figured timbers & tearing the little burls/cores out on burled timber, if you turn the plane slightly on the angle (and still moving in a forwards direction) it carefully shears the shaving rather than trying to slice it. This little plane just negates the need to turn it.
I could be completely wrong mind you!

[DarwinStrings]

Like Nick said sort of, rabbet planes have skewed blades so that as they cut across the grain they leave a better finish, so I assume that little plane is for dealing with situation where you need to cross grain plane although I am not sure quite why it is made like that as you can just angle a plane for normal planing as opposed to rebating

Jim

[Taffy Evans]

Hey Rod I had one of those years ago when I started out, I had it bolted to the bench in a jig and used it like a jionter...................and I've still got all my fingers.

I then upgraded to this Makita unit, must be a contender for the biggest Makita planer, oh well maybe not.

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[charangohabsburg]

Like Nick said sort of, rabbet planes have skewed blades so that as they cut across the grain they leave a better finish, so I assume that little plane is for dealing with situation where you need to cross grain plane [...]

I agree. Just one attempt more trying to refine the explanation: a skewed blade decreases the effective cutting angle of the blade and with this the effort of moving the plane decreases too which is highly welcome when planing end grain. Tear out (along the grain, of course) becomes more likely with low cutting angles.

although I am not sure quite why it is made like that as you can just angle a plane for normal planing

Maybe "ergonomics" . I skew the whole plane whenever I need a skewed blade. This virtually doubles my modest hand plane fleet without occupying more space.

[woodrat]

I thought that I would post a pic of my plane collection. I am a hand plane tragic through and through. I would own hundreds if I could afford to! I have been collecting them for about 15 years and now have quite a few. I am a fan of Lie Nielsens as you can see. They are very fine indeed and worth the money if you are going to use them for several decades as I certainly plan to do.
Also a pic of where they live. A set of purpose built shelves for planes particularly and chisels and other small tools.

John

[Kim]

U just a plane hoe John....nice line up.

[woodrat]

John

[auscab]

Here is what I like, not an every day user ,but a nice plane to pull out for a special work out.
It's a, Spiers of Ayr , dovetailed body with Brazilian Rosewood infill, smoothing plane . Stewart Spiers was a cabinet maker who started making dovetailed bodied planes about 1840
his business idea took of [dovetailed body] and the other makers first ordered from him then made their own, I have a nice collection of these, no other photos at the moment.

cheers Rob.