10-13-2016, 12:19 PM
I was tidying up the shop today. It's not a difficult task--just walk over to a clutter pile and dig in. Today's challenge was a tool workshelf full of brace squatters. If your shop is like mine, tools just show up and begin to congregate in groups. It can be hard to get to the handplanes underneath a gaggle of braces. So I collected an armload and moved them to a less intrusive location. That's when I spied the project plane they had been concealing. I picked up this sad little chamfer plane a few years back and have been working on it ever since. It looks user made, but by a good craftsman user. The wood is boxwood or something similar--very tight grained and heavy. Somebody gave it a wedgie and blew out the side. I found some suitable material to repair it with but started with the easier parts. First off, I made a blade. Now I need to find it and reunite it with the plane. Next, I augmented the moveable sole with some African hardwood. The original maker blew it all on the body and used less care on the moveable sole. This augmented sole needed to be trimmed so I got out my planes. But holding it was a challenge. It was small and it was not square. I ended up making a birds beak to hold it against the bench dog.
Here is a closer shot.
I planed it closely and finished up with sandpaper. That went well except that the exotic hardwood had a cow-dung like smell to it. Whew!
So now I am much closer to the finish line. I need to cut off the corner of the plane body and fit the donor wood. That is the next challenge.
Here is a closer shot.
I planed it closely and finished up with sandpaper. That went well except that the exotic hardwood had a cow-dung like smell to it. Whew!
So now I am much closer to the finish line. I need to cut off the corner of the plane body and fit the donor wood. That is the next challenge.
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