Originally Posted by
IanW
Paul, I always thought of you as a good, kind friend, but here you are wanting to supply me with items of self-torture! :o While I agree SS polishes beautifully, the effort to get a nicely-shaped lever-cap to the polish-able stage would finish my plane-making career for certain - my wonky shoulder would simply give up all pretense of cooperation! I will confess I have thought about making an all-SS plane occasionally, but I've found if I went inside the house & had a cool drink, the thought disappeared promptly.
I can sort-of contemplate a very small all SS plane with a SS lever-cap without physically wincing with pain, and if I have an uncontrollable rush of blood to the head some day, I might try it, but it's not high on my list atm. If & when I do, I have an untouched piece of ~8mm SS that came from a person who lives somewhere to the west of me that I think will do nicely for a small lever cap (in fact I think it will do for about 50 small lever-caps!), and plenty of sheet material in suitable thicknesses for sides & sole.... :U
You will probably get a more favourable response from Ironwood if you offer him a thick chunk of SS about lever-cap size. :;
:U
Cheers,