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Thread: Old Marples Wooden Jointer Plane
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27th December 2013, 05:52 PM #1
Old Marples Wooden Jointer Plane
I haven't had any real experience with wooden planes before, and I never really trusted that they would be as nice as the modern metal planes. However, I found this old W Marples and Sons plane in my father in law's workshop. He uses it once a year at Christmas as a prop in a carpenter's stall in Bethlehem. He tried to set it up to actually be useful this year, but couldn't get it working nicely. The blade was blunt and quite rusted up. I offered to set it up for him. Several hours work later, with rust converter, wet-dry sandpaper, WD-40, steel wool, water stones, and paste wax, the end result came up quite nicely. I actually feel a little guilty, because the nice shiny wood may not look so authentic in Bethlehem anymore. I deliberately didn't clean up the wood - just a little paste wax to help protect the dried out wood - but it shined it up so much.
Anyway, I have set the blade to take a nice fine cut, and wow is this thing smooooooth! It glides so nicely along the wood, and is taking really fine shavings. I'm surprised that the big hefty shape is not as cumbersome as I thought it would be, and with such a long sole, it just glides.
photo2-001.JPGGood things come to those who wait, and sail right past those who don't reach out and grab them.
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27th December 2013, 06:22 PM #2
Oh, and PS, it was interesting to notice the tapered blade, and it is also laminated - the cutting face at the cutting end of the blade is a harder steel than the rest. It's hard to see how much of the thickness of the blade is the harder steel, as the joint is hard to see on the edge, but I can see the steel join on the face of the blade.
Good things come to those who wait, and sail right past those who don't reach out and grab them.
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27th December 2013, 07:56 PM #3
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27th December 2013, 10:57 PM #4
Welcome to the dark side of the dark side.
...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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