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RE: "Un-believable" handplane tip - Scoony - 07-23-2023
Might be a technique that you would use or see practical, but I could see folks using that method to make small round pieces if they were lacking a lathe.
RE: "Un-believable" handplane tip - tablesawtom - 07-23-2023
No, I think you and Ahill missed the point.
Tom
RE: "Un-believable" handplane tip - Handplanesandmore - 07-23-2023
Tom,
There's a difference between doable and being practical . That's why I use a handplane and not a chisel if I want to flatten a board.
Or, use a drill press to do some turning in an emergency if my lathe is not working.
Or, use a chisel instead of a screwdriver with a sharpened end to pare dovetails. (Wait, a screwdriver tip was just born!)
Simon
RE: "Un-believable" handplane tip - bandit571 - 07-23-2023
Ever watch how Ishitanii makes his dowel pins?
RE: "Un-believable" handplane tip - Handplanesandmore - 07-23-2023
I'm afraid not...but I feel confident that if it's slow and labor-intensive, he wouldn't use it to make 100 or 200 dowel pins, the kind of number of pens woodturners whom I personally know have turned over their years of making pens as gifts.
Simon
Ps I should add that I have given away a lot more than 200 turned pens and pencils as a practical (not doable!) woodturner.
RE: "Un-believable" handplane tip - Scoony - 07-24-2023
In Medieval times, arrow shafts were made starting with square stock, and rounding with a plane. Of course, they used a jig with a v groove along the length to hold the shaft as they planed it round. If I was forced to make a pen with plane, I would use the jig over clamping the plane upside down, but could do as described in tip rather easily.
RE: "Un-believable" handplane tip - Handplanesandmore - 07-24-2023
rather easily....Have you read the actual tip, Scoony?
A typical pen blank is 2-1/4" long about 1/2" to 3/4" wide. Rounding a square blank with your bare hand on a plane mounted upside down is easy? You rock!
Simon
RE: "Un-believable" handplane tip - tablesawtom - 07-24-2023
(07-23-2023, 07:36 PM)Handplanesandmore Wrote: Tom,
There's a difference between doable and being practical . That's why I use a handplane and not a chisel if I want to flatten a board.
Or, use a drill press to do some turning in an emergency if my lathe is not working.
Or, use a chisel instead of a screwdriver with a sharpened end to pare dovetails. (Wait, a screwdriver tip was just born!)
Simon
(That's why I use a hand plane). give me break Looks like your I have all the answers , which only I can have, attitude is showing.
Tom
RE: "Un-believable" handplane tip - bandit571 - 07-24-2023
(07-24-2023, 02:14 PM)tablesawtom Wrote: (That's why I use a hand plane). give me break Looks like your I have all the answers , which only I can have, attitude is showing.
Tom
Just Simon being Simon.....
Lock up Simon in a Room with Warren and Derek Cohen.....and see who emerges....
RE: "Un-believable" handplane tip - Handplanesandmore - 07-24-2023
Bandit...you made my day...putting me high up there with those two seasoned hand tool woodworkers.
But I agree with Tom that I do have an attitude ....of telling it how it is. Skilled (and confident) woodworkers are usually like that, allow me to say.
Simon