Thread: Some homemade planes

Great stuff Aaron. That scratch stock looks good, an improvement on the marking gauge type.

Excellent work!

Great planes Arron. Top job!

Hi All, thanks for the kind comments.

Derek, the blade mortise in the spoon plane was carved as follows:
1. Shape the bottom, then working on the bottom mark out where the mouth will be.
2. Drill a row of holes along this line, right through the body from bottom to top. Use a chisel to join the holes to make it a slot. Effectively, its a slot directly from the mouth to the top of the plane.
3. Turn the plane back top side up, and mark out the perimeter of the mortise, on the top. Basically, its just a little wider then the proposed blade, and the length is obtained by drawing a line at (say) 45degrees back and forward of the mouth.
4. Bash out the majority of the waste using a mortise chisel held at a 45 degree angle and working towards this slot.
5. Flatten, square and clean up with a paring chisel, and a file where possible.

Easy done. Takes about an hour. The thing to watch out for is not to undercut the sides, especially if the grain is not 100% parallel.

If any interest is shown I will do a longer Smaslereque 'how to do it' post on the spoon plane, with photos. I'm very impressed with that thing.

Arron

Arron,

Absolutely fantastic work, and very inspiring. Your postings always urge me to improve my skills to the point where I can start to build my own tools.

Great work