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    Hi all. I have started work on a new 9 inch coffin shaped toothing plane. I want to put a clear natural finish on this plane, so to add an extra highlight to its look I have added a Bubinga sole to the PNG Rosewood upper body. Its a visually pleasing match using 2 different wood species.

    Both inside surfaces to be glued were worked with a toothing iron to maximise the bonding achieved with the Gorilla Glue adhesive.

    I have no plans to make this post a long winded tutorial from start to finish so you can all rest easy.

    The following photo's show the basic form of the plane body after its been marked out ready to be mortised.

    Stewie;


    Side view.


    Top view.


    Bottom view with the guide holes drilled.


    Front view showing a close up of the glued joint.


    The plane body has been taped up to protect the 90 * corners of the plane body while its been held in the bench vise during mortising out.

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    When I saw the title, Stewie, I thought you had gone soft & started glueing up bits of wood in the Krenov style. But it's only the sole-piece, so that's alright, it's still basically a solid-bodied woody.

    I wouldn't think you are likely to have too many problems with the sole joint, unless the Bubinga is very oily, given the relatively large glue surfaces. The few pieces of Bubinga I've worked with have been very variable, a couple were quite oily, while the piece Chook had for his saw handle a couple of weeks ago was fairly 'dry'. A Rosewood sole I applied 30-odd years ago is still stuck on, despite my using probably the cheapest PVA glue available (something I wouldn't do now!).

    Which leads me to wonder why a certain brand used to attach Hornbeam soles to Beech bodies with a castellated joint. I guess it looked interesting, but was probably unnecessary from a mechanical viewpoint. I've long been tempted to laminate a sole to a plane body using "double dovetails", just for fun & to leave something for future generations to scratch their heads over. One of these days, when I run out of other things to do.....

    Cheers,
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    Quote Originally Posted by IanW View Post
    When I saw the title, Stewie, I thought you had gone soft & started glueing up bits of wood in the Krenov style. But it's only the sole-piece, so that's alright, it's still basically a solid-bodied woody.

    I wouldn't think you are likely to have too many problems with the sole joint, unless the Bubinga is very oily, given the relatively large glue surfaces. The few pieces of Bubinga I've worked with have been very variable, a couple were quite oily, while the piece Chook had for his saw handle a couple of weeks ago was fairly 'dry'. A Rosewood sole I applied 30-odd years ago is still stuck on, despite my using probably the cheapest PVA glue available (something I wouldn't do now!).

    Which leads me to wonder why a certain brand used to attach Hornbeam soles to Beech bodies with a castellated joint. I guess it looked interesting, but was probably unnecessary from a mechanical viewpoint. I've long been tempted to laminate a sole to a plane body using "double dovetails", just for fun & to leave something for future generations to scratch their heads over. One of these days, when I run out of other things to do.....

    Cheers,
    Hi Ian. You wont catch me doing Krenov. Not a big fan at all. I have an Incra an Incra Router Fence available that I could use to create all sorts of fancy joints to the sole union if I wanted to. I may get around to using that option 1 day but it would be purely for show, as a lot of the modern wood glues available are structurally stronger than the base wood being used. But it can add a very unique feature to the look of the hand plane.

    Stewie;

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    Making steady progress with the coffin shaped toothing plane. The iron has been nicely bedded at 87*. The throat and escarpment have also been completed. And the abutments have been fine tuned to correctly seat the wedge.

    Next will be to shape the body of the plane to a coffin shape. That will be followed by marking and cutting the tines on the wedge, as well as refine its overall shape.

    Lots of work in making these woodie's to a high level of perfection.

    Stewie;




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    Nice Planes Stewie , but why all the annoying links to the other web site ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by auscab View Post
    Nice Planes Stewie , but why all the annoying links to the other web site ?
    Hi auscab. You will need to supply a bit more info. I got no idea what your talking about.

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    Well I hope it's not my computer .
    In you first post in this thread there are three words , underlined , that are links back to another forum, woodnet forums, That take me to a thread you have there on the same subject .
    In post 3 in this thread the same thing. And in the other threads you have here posted here recently , I see the same thing.

    I checked and see the same thing if using my phone , and my work computer as well . so I assumed you were advertising this other site in an annoying way ,as six or twelve links back to the same thread somewhere else tends to get

    Any one else seeing the same thing ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by auscab View Post
    Well I hope it's not my computer .
    In you first post in this thread there are three words , underlined , that are links back to another forum, woodnet forums, That take me to a thread you have there on the same subject .
    In post 3 in this thread the same thing. And in the other threads you have here posted here recently , I see the same thing.

    I checked and see the same thing if using my phone , and my work computer as well . so I assumed you were advertising this other site in an annoying way ,as six or twelve links back to the same thread somewhere else tends to get

    Any one else seeing the same thing ?
    I just clicked the underlined words and it redirected me to another forum I posted too. It certainly wasn't intentional and I am not too sure at the moment how to fix it.

    Thanks for letting me know.

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    Work on this Toothing Plane is near completion. Only thing left to do is to sharpen the iron and give the plane a few test runs.

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    Forming a clean straight line in front of the mouth area with the required clearance tolerance between it and the cutting edge is not as difficult to do. The method I have used in the past is to glue a sacrificial hardwood veneer over this area to be protected so it doesn't get chipped when using plane maker floats to shaping out the bed, throat, and escarpment area's.

    As you would have noted with my Toothing Plane work I have a preference to installing a hardwood infill in front of the mouth opening. By installing a hardwood infill at 90* to the pre existing grain direction of the plane sole, IMO this important edge has a much greater chance of maintaining its clean line over an extended period of plane use.

    The use of a mouth infill during the initial plane construction should be seen as it is. A personal preference with the direction my work, and is in no way intended to detract or question work done by other traditional plane makers of current or earlier times.

    regards; Stewie.

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    This hand plane has just been sold to a U.K. buyer.

    regards; Stewie.

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    Well done Stewie,
    That's an interesting story the iron comes from the uk.
    The body of the plane is built years later in Australia.
    And the whole plane ends up back in the uk?

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    Awesome work as usual Stewie, Cheers, Richie

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    Quote Originally Posted by Simplicity View Post
    Well done Stewie,
    That's an interesting story the iron comes from the uk.
    The body of the plane is built years later in Australia.
    And the whole plane ends up back in the uk?
    Hi Matt. The following attachment is the tool shop in the UK where the plane irons came from via ebay.

    http://www.bristol-design.co.uk/

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