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4th June 2010, 07:38 PM #1New Member
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Advice please - Replacement for Combination Planes
Hi all,
I've noted a fairly across-the-board warning against combination planes, and I'm listening. Thus, I'm looking for advice on where to start instead.
I enjoy using my hands. I woodwork at night and early on weekend mornings thus it is rarely convenient to use power tools. They're not my preference anyway.
I thought the simple-looking plow plane I saw in "The Complete Manual of Woodworking" was my answer to all things molding and joints - but it appears to fall into the combination plane bucket; so now I'm wary. In the ' workshop according to me', it was going to star alongside the hand router and saw. Now I'm not so sure.
Appreciate any comments/thoughts.
Phil
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4th June 2010, 08:26 PM #2
This simple looking plane....what did it look like? Wood body? Steel?
The combination planes were designed to replace sets of wooden planes with one plane. If you work from home, you could just have a stack of wooden hollows and rounds.We don't know how lucky we are......
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4th June 2010, 09:02 PM #3
Guess you could take a look at the threads started by Apricotripper https://www.woodworkforums.com/search...archid=5896066
I'm happy with the few woodies and the 45 I use... fiddly to set up till you have a system, and sharpening is a little more involved than a stone... but, they are quiet
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4th June 2010, 11:31 PM #4
Phil
are you interested in building your own molding planes?
there's a couple of DVDs on how to do it and while a bit fiddly you do get to design your own molding profile.
if you're looking for advice as to what hand tools to buy -- the short answer is good onesregards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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5th June 2010, 09:20 AM #5New Member
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Hand Planes
All,
Appreciate your help as always.
Seanz - Steel, and appears to be a lot shorter than the hollows and rounds. Nice site by the way. I hadn't heard of a plane like the Snipe Bill before.
Clinton - That link didn't work. What was in it?
Ian - Understood about good tools. I hadn't thought about home made planes, not too sure if I'm up to it yet, but it's another thing to think about.
I don't know where to start at the moment. Each question raises a bunch more.
Phil
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5th June 2010, 09:54 AM #6
Mate,
I tried to insert a link to an Advanced Search of this forum, for threads started by apricotripper
Sorry for the underlines... but you'll get a heap of posts by Jake (apricotripper) where he goes into the deep end of figuring out how to use his planes to the nth degree.
Jake took a really fantastic journey in this area, and busted the myth that the combination and moulding planes are 'hard to use'.
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5th June 2010, 04:43 PM #7Senior Member
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hi Phil, what do you want to do with the planes? That's the first question really. What do you want to build first? That will help decide what planes you should go for first.
My #45 sits idle at the moment because I;m not doing any beading but I still love using it and it's not that hard to set up (gotta get a #55 someday). I love my old Record #044 which would be a simple combination plane. Equally, the small #043 grooving plane by record and the various clones are excellent for making small grooves for thing like draw bottoms. I love all my combo planes and also my non-combo planes too, heck I just like old tools )
to see the $043 check Alf's page of small plough planes:
Mini Grooving Planes @ Cornish Workshop
and her page on the #044:
Metal Plough Planes @ Cornish Workshop
and combi planes in general (if you haven't found it already)
Combination Planes @ Cornish Workshop
and how to set them up and use them (this page helped me a lot when I started using my combo planes):
How To Use a Combination Plane @ Cornish Workshop
Combination planes are not so scary once you've decided to do a task with them and set them up for that, and practice that 1 task a little....
have fun...
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