My Hand Planes
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I'm still trying to catchup on the 2 videos. I actually went out and fired up the forge. Made a small double hook to hang up an Iron Skillet. I wanted to do 6 of them but got too hot so I'll need to do this early in the morning.
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Cool, and yea, it's defenitely been hot outside lately, lol. The thermometer on the front of our garage has been reading 93-104f pretty much the whole time I was trying to finish that plane up, so all I could do is just turn that shed into a wind tunnel with as many fans running as possible, and that was the only way I was able to work out there. Now that Ive finished everything up and dont need to forge anything, the weather has finally gotten cooler and temp dropped, lol...
As for the plane, I showed the plane with a dull blade, because it seemed fairly sharp, but mostly, I was wanting to get some pics/video of how the forge weld was, since you couldnt see any seam or anything, usually there's a hairline crack/line in between the two unless the weld is perfect, but the video was so long that I had to delete it in the end. So I just got video of me struggling to use the plane due to the dull blade, lol. I did finally sharpen the thing, and even with almost 3/16" deep cut, that plane just eats through everything really effortlessly, and it is less of a hand plane, and more of a wood chipper, stuff just gets ripped off and goes flying everywhere, lol.
As for the plane, I showed the plane with a dull blade, because it seemed fairly sharp, but mostly, I was wanting to get some pics/video of how the forge weld was, since you couldnt see any seam or anything, usually there's a hairline crack/line in between the two unless the weld is perfect, but the video was so long that I had to delete it in the end. So I just got video of me struggling to use the plane due to the dull blade, lol. I did finally sharpen the thing, and even with almost 3/16" deep cut, that plane just eats through everything really effortlessly, and it is less of a hand plane, and more of a wood chipper, stuff just gets ripped off and goes flying everywhere, lol.
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I enjoyed both videos, the wife even likes watching them. Or, it's just fair since I have to watch cooking shows and canoeing through Canada... for some reason.
I'll keep my eye out for some 1/4 to 3/8 in flat stock for you. I am going to pick up some old cylinders to use for rings and such. Did you get the big ones base smoothed out. Hate it when the bit slips. Had the big CNC do that. It was screaming and throwing stuff all over the shed. Broke the bit and the collet.
Great work as usual. You're going to need a bigger toolbox.
I'll keep my eye out for some 1/4 to 3/8 in flat stock for you. I am going to pick up some old cylinders to use for rings and such. Did you get the big ones base smoothed out. Hate it when the bit slips. Had the big CNC do that. It was screaming and throwing stuff all over the shed. Broke the bit and the collet.
Great work as usual. You're going to need a bigger toolbox.
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lol, the second part was a bit of a crap shoot tbh, I re-watched both parts last night and I could tell that I was having some problems mentally when editing that thing, lol. It had been that hot out, and we had been up re-coating and redoing shingles on roofs for almost 2 weeks, on top of trying to video and get that plane finished, so I was phyically and mentally burned out to say the least, lol.
The bottom is flat enough, but there's some really deep gouges that will never come out, but after lapping, it has contact across all of the high spots, and with that style of plane, it isnt a fine finishing one anyhow, so it doesnt need to be perfect really. Im pretty good on steel right now tbh, I went to the local steel supplier and they just had a big job of cutting out some plates for something out, and had a bunch of scraps that was just cut up with the shear and sitting around, but they gave me it for $5 for as much steel as I could carry, lol. So yea, Im pretty set on steel for a while I think, lol. Thanks tho. Also, gas cylinders suck to deal with, the steel is very very stiff stuff and it's usually too big to fit into the forge, so youre just beating on it with the sledge hammer and it is so springy that it just does more damage to you than it does the ring tbh.
Im at the point now that with the planes, I may as well make a plane till and just hang them on the wall rather than putting them into another toolbox, lol. Im also getting very close to the end of the line for making hand planes, Ive got pretty much all of them covered, so yea, lol. I thought about making up a few extras, like block plane styles to take out to colonial homestead and sell/trade, but Im kinda starting to get burned out with them tbh.
The bottom is flat enough, but there's some really deep gouges that will never come out, but after lapping, it has contact across all of the high spots, and with that style of plane, it isnt a fine finishing one anyhow, so it doesnt need to be perfect really. Im pretty good on steel right now tbh, I went to the local steel supplier and they just had a big job of cutting out some plates for something out, and had a bunch of scraps that was just cut up with the shear and sitting around, but they gave me it for $5 for as much steel as I could carry, lol. So yea, Im pretty set on steel for a while I think, lol. Thanks tho. Also, gas cylinders suck to deal with, the steel is very very stiff stuff and it's usually too big to fit into the forge, so youre just beating on it with the sledge hammer and it is so springy that it just does more damage to you than it does the ring tbh.
Im at the point now that with the planes, I may as well make a plane till and just hang them on the wall rather than putting them into another toolbox, lol. Im also getting very close to the end of the line for making hand planes, Ive got pretty much all of them covered, so yea, lol. I thought about making up a few extras, like block plane styles to take out to colonial homestead and sell/trade, but Im kinda starting to get burned out with them tbh.
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Well, after the scrub plane, I realized that all of my planes were for really really fine cuts, so knocking over those high spots from the scallops from the scrub plane, I was looking and realized there was the fore plane, which would knock all of those down, lol. I called it a jointer plane for the longest time thinking that's what it was, but I just decided to try to hammer one out, lol.
It's 16" long overall, 1 3/4" wide blade, 6 1/2-7lbs, and just glides through the cuts, lol. The top was some 3/16" flat bar I had that I cut down and bent around a mandrel, and the bottom was some leaf spring that I flattened out very carefully so that it was absolutely as flat as possible since I didnt think I would be able to machine it up on the mill. It was cut at the mouth and the mouth was filed out and open, that way the mouth was so tight that the blade wouldnt go through it at 45 degrees, that way I can flatten the bottom and open it up afterwards without it being too large.
I ran some very ugly tack welds between the sides and bottom, and two tack welds at each side of the mouth to hold everything in place while brazing it up in the forge. It really was too large to fit in the forge, so it was a bit akward to say the least, lol. I was very very careful to keep anything from moving or shifting while brazing, checking at each step of the construction.
In the end, it was out around 15 thou end from end, which was mostly high in the center, so since I couldnt mill it, I took the angle grinder with a flap wheel on it, and a straight edge to slowly remove the high spots till the straight edge was contacting across the whole thing. I then set up some 60 grit sandpaper on the table saw top and started lapping it, then would use the flap wheel to remove the smaller lapped areas till the contact was spread out all across the bottom of the plane.
Having the bottom now flat and one reference surface, I stuck it on the mill finally, with a side cutting arbor milling cutter and went all over the top to get it down to height that I was after, cut the large scallop into it, and mill the backs to the right height so that it blended everything together.
Having the bottom now flat and one reference surface, I stuck it on the mill finally, with a side cutting arbor milling cutter and went all over the top to get it down to height that I was after, cut the large scallop into it, and mill the backs to the right height so that it blended everything together.
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After that, I tuned up the mouth so the blade just barely passed through it, did minor cleaning up of everything, and started on the infill, which would hide the ugly tack welds and brazing that was hidden inside of there, lol.
The handle/tote was carved with the whittling knife, and rest were done up with the jigsaw and belt sander as usual.
It was then all glued together using hot hide glue and blended together using a file and palm sander to shape everything.
The handle/tote was carved with the whittling knife, and rest were done up with the jigsaw and belt sander as usual.
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I then hammered out a new lever cap for it, forged out some bed frame into a blade and ground everything to shape/size, and started adding shellac to the infill, which made the infill really really pop, lol. The piece behind the tote/handle has some serious figuring to it, and it really pops out in the light, same with the tote/handle and the front bun too. The infill is screwed in from underneath using some countersunk screws with shallow slots, and everything was epoxied together also, screws included, so once it was all dry, the screws were peened over and filed flush, which made them dissappear.
The auto white balance on these pics were really thrown off by the sunlight and the pine board underneath, but gotta have some action shots, lol.
So yea, it's a razee style infill jointer plane, which Ive never actually seen one like it before, but I really like it, lol.
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Keep posting. You posts are fascinating.
Richard
Richard
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Thanks guys, and I could, but I know richard said he doesnt watch video links, and I know youre already subbed and watch them on youtube, so I didnt really see the need to post video links on here tbh. I think it's realy just you two that have looked into this category really, lol.
As I said before, Im honestly just winding down on making the hand planes, so I had one that I had saved back this whole time that was kinda going to be the last one, and that would be the quirk router. It's a wierd plane with a really wierd cutter on it, but it has interested me since I got into hand planes. It's a type of plane that cuts a groove, but it's designed to cut grooves for stuff like inlaying parts down inside coopered sections like large coreboxes and such, and since I use alot of plywood for boxes and such, it'd cut the very clean grooves in that for drawer bottoms without blowing out the bottoms like a table saw or router bit will do. It'll also do grooves in stuff going around corners, for adding in stuff like an inside lip on a pattern parallel to the sides with non flat sides, which no table saw or router bit will ever have a chance at doing, lol.
here's a link to a video showing what it is and what it does in the very basic sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbEEDnmsvnw
This one was a long time build, and a pretty challenging pattern tbh, but also very easy to make. I made the main body's pattern is around 4 hours, starting from rough cut block to shellac drying on it, which was the fastest pattern Ive ever made to date. I carved it all from a block of cherry by drilling it all out using a forsner bit and cutting it out with the jigsaw, then carving it with the whittling knife, just shaping it till it looked/felt right to me.
The hardest part for me was understanding how the finger grips were done, but then I realized that the finger grips underneath were just really elongated spoon shapes tbh, which is when I went out and forged out those spoon gouges, to carve the finger grips in that pattern. Right after I finished the chisels is when I sent it into the side of my fingers and sliced the top of my fingers open. I also wanted to have an even thickness for them for the finger grips and arms, so had forged out the scissor calipers that Ive shown earlier this year too.
The fences were made of two pieces of rough cut cherry that was cut off, jointed flat on the table saw so they fit together nicely, then screwed together. They were drilled out and cut apart using the chop saw, then taken to the rotary planer in the drill press to plane them down to height, that created the bases with wood fillets included. The parts were then sanded to put pattern draft on them and shaped with the whittling knife as usual, and glued together and blended together with the palm sander, then put beeswax fillets to fill in any mishaps or anything and blend everything together.
I did the pattern up for that earlier in the spring, and the patterns were sitting there since then. I always planned to have this one as the last plane since it's such an oddball one, lol. It was probably the most complicated one Ive done to date, and was kinda a test of skill for me to see how far I had actually come since going down this rabbit hole of patternmaking.
As I said before, Im honestly just winding down on making the hand planes, so I had one that I had saved back this whole time that was kinda going to be the last one, and that would be the quirk router. It's a wierd plane with a really wierd cutter on it, but it has interested me since I got into hand planes. It's a type of plane that cuts a groove, but it's designed to cut grooves for stuff like inlaying parts down inside coopered sections like large coreboxes and such, and since I use alot of plywood for boxes and such, it'd cut the very clean grooves in that for drawer bottoms without blowing out the bottoms like a table saw or router bit will do. It'll also do grooves in stuff going around corners, for adding in stuff like an inside lip on a pattern parallel to the sides with non flat sides, which no table saw or router bit will ever have a chance at doing, lol.
here's a link to a video showing what it is and what it does in the very basic sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbEEDnmsvnw
This one was a long time build, and a pretty challenging pattern tbh, but also very easy to make. I made the main body's pattern is around 4 hours, starting from rough cut block to shellac drying on it, which was the fastest pattern Ive ever made to date. I carved it all from a block of cherry by drilling it all out using a forsner bit and cutting it out with the jigsaw, then carving it with the whittling knife, just shaping it till it looked/felt right to me.
The hardest part for me was understanding how the finger grips were done, but then I realized that the finger grips underneath were just really elongated spoon shapes tbh, which is when I went out and forged out those spoon gouges, to carve the finger grips in that pattern. Right after I finished the chisels is when I sent it into the side of my fingers and sliced the top of my fingers open. I also wanted to have an even thickness for them for the finger grips and arms, so had forged out the scissor calipers that Ive shown earlier this year too.