Thread: Jointer Plane

The initial mortising out of the bed, wear angle, and secondary escarpment bevel have been completed. At this stage mortising out is contained within the outside abutment lines. The 3rd photo shows the dedicated block that will used to form the wedge abutments. The 4th photo shows some of the hand tool I am using. Chalking is used to fine tune flat surfacing work. Traditional plane maker floats are of limited value on this wooden plane build due to the higher janka rating of Australian Jarrah.

Looking cool. What are the 2 tools sought of middle picture with brown handles, modified chisels/scrapers?

Shane; those are parring chisels I use for working tight areas of a wooden planes escarpment. I have another pair that are shaped differently that I use for flat surface scraping. All 4 chisels were made using 2x HSS 300mm thicknesser blades.

Sharpening Planemakers Edge Floats;

Solid vise makes all the difference doesn't it Stewie? I thought my 8" Wilton would be overkill but sometimes I want something bigger.

The fitting of the wooden wedge within its abutments has been completed.

The front of the mouth opening and wear angle have both been squared up. The sole of plane has been dressed back to flat with the double iron in tension. (Little change noted in flatness). The sides and top have been cleaned up to remove all the lay-out markings. The mortise housing for the rear tote has been completed and the hide glued in position. The glue will be left to harden overnight. Both ends of the planes stock still need to be cleaned up with a block plane, then its onto forming the profile bevels.

All that's left to do is give the cutting iron a final sharpen. Then its onto making some curly shavings.

Stewie;

Stewie

I like the cove for the shavings at the front of the mouth. Is it functional, aesthetic or both?

Regards
Paul

Paul; it serves both functions you outlined.

Stewie;

Very nice indeed, thanks for sharing.

Planemakers Edge Floats are used when forming the wedge abutments on traditional wooden bodied bench planes. The common recommendation is to sharpened them to a rip tooth profile. Unless braced against the bed of the plane, they can be rather difficult to control their direction of cut.



As an experiment, I filed the side float teeth at a 10 degree fleam crosscut profile.



As you can see from the following test cuts, directional control was greatly improved by the change in tooth profile.



I would not recommend you attempt a change to the traditional tooth profile on Bed and Side Floats.

https://www.lie-nielsen.com/product/...oats?node=4098
https://www.lie-nielsen.com/product/...oats?node=4098

Thanks Stewie.

Nice file handle btw. One size fits all?

Regards
Paul