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27th September 2017, 07:44 PM #1
Just one more infill plane
You are probably all getting a bit bored with infills this month, but here's another one I made over the last couple of days:
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MP1a.jpg
A rear 'bun' fits better than a tote on this size plane, and I have to say it's probably a lot more comfortable than a tote.
This is mainly because it's rather tiny:
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Did I fool anyone?
This came about because I was fossicking through some stuff looking for some bits & pieces & came across a rather sad-looking attempt at making a mini plane. I made it 15 or more years ago, to do some job that I can't remember. I can tell by the quality of my workmanship that I was in a hurry, and although the plane probably did what I wanted it for, it didn't do it well, so it was tossed into a drawer & left to languish.
So when I came across it again, flushed with the success of my panel plane build, I decided to have another crack at it. I still had a left-over bit of the brass channel I used, so I got that out, plus a scrap of 3.2mm stainless steel that was just wide enough to solder onto the (slightly thinner than I would have preferred) brass channel for the sole: MP4b.jpg
After some fussing with the blade (a bit of old HSS power-hacksaw blade) and a mock-up of a cap-iron, I drew a profile for the sides and cut this out using a hacksaw for the straight runs & a jewellers' saw for the curvy bits. The tops were smoothed & sanded, and chamfers applied to the parts I wouldn't be able to get at easily once the infill was in place.Some scraps of ringed Gidgee were prepared for the infill, epoxied in place & left overnight to cure.
This morning, I riveted the rear infill, cleaned up the blade-bed, then made and fitted the lever cap from a bit of 1/4" thick brass. Some final cleaning-up of the metal and a spot of polishing, and it was done. Worked first go, taking clean 1-2 thou shavings with ease (especially when I waxed the sole)!
Out of curiosity, I decided to take another look at the original & see if I could figure out what was wrong with it. I can't remember why, but I'd made this one as a bevel-up 12* : MP3.jpg MP4.jpg
I vaguely remember having trouble with the wedge, so I tidied that up a bit, and replaced the wood screw I'd used to tighten the wedge with a 1/4" brass thumbscrew (threaded directly into the wood of the wedge). I gave the bottom a rub or two over some 180 paper to check if the sole was reasonably flat. It was fine in the critical areas: MP4a.jpg
So I sharpened up the blade, put it back together, and after a bit of adjustment tapping, pffffft: MP5.jpg
Full-width shavings along the board, & cutting just as sweetly as the more solid BD 'replacement'! Dunno what the problem was before, but I strongly suspect a good dose of ignorance & a splash of impatience had a lot to do with it.
Cheers,IW
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27th September 2017, 11:16 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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Didn't fool me.
But what do you use that huge plane for in the 3rd photo... Have to be a giant to use that...
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28th September 2017, 04:01 PM #3
Very smart planes Ian. All plain sailing.
Is this the end of a mission or the start of an obsession, not that I know much about such things?
Regards
PaulBushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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28th September 2017, 07:53 PM #4
Paul, It's called having a whole week all to myself, with no commitments. The minister for domestic harmony is away (a very long way away - in Rome) so it's just me & the dogs, & they don't care what I do as long as their tucker appears promptly at 6.
I took a lot of care with my panel plane, but it turned out even better than I'd hoped for, so it got me to thinking (always dangerous! ), and I decided to take another look at some of the other planes I've made, to see if I can apply some of the lessons learnt, & maybe take them from ok or good, to excellent like the p-p. So that's what I've been doing all week, finessing this & that to see what happens. Of course, there've been a few digressions on the way, like making the mini plane that started this thread, but the main game has been tweaking the other two infills I made some years ago. My main 'discovery' is that cap-irons don't seem to do much when bed angles go higher than about 50*. I get the same results with or without a cap iron from my coffin smoother, so I'm going to run it with a single iron for a while & see how it goes. The blade I put in it today is a LV 3/16" thick A2 that I've had kicking about for several years. If I decide a single iron really is just as good as the double-iron I've been using up to now, I might fit that monster 1/4" thick M2 iron I got from you. I'd been planning to use it to make a skewed shooting plane but the thought of re-grinding it to a skewed angle does not appeal at all! However, I need to be satisfied that it really is the way to go, because the front of the mouth will need altering to take it. That's not only a lot of work, it's irrevocable, so there won't be any going back...!
Cheers,IW
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