Thread: Jointer and Smoother

Well you sucked me in. When I saw the opener "I built two planes yesterday, a jointer and a smoother....", I just thought "That must've been a looong day, Derek!"

Clever little thing, for sure, but can't think of any immediate need for it, myself. Thgat doesn't mean I couldn't have a lot of fun playing with a few different combinations & permutations on a rainy afternoon. I presume from the catalogue dimensions that you just drill a couple of 3/4" holes in the wooden body, and join them up, then epoxy the steel body in? I'm guessing the sole would then need a bit of lapping to bring everything clean & level?

Cheers,

Very nice. The jointer looks 'full size' and the darker colour hides the insert a bit. The pics of the smoother are where things started to look a bit 'off'........what's with the funny large grain and what's that dark area behind the blade? What's he used there? Ebony?

Insert planes, eh? Never heard of them. They look like fun.

Nice little planes

I picked what you were using at the second photo of the jointer.


What I want to know is how they compare in size to the minature Router, shoulder and edge planes
are they functional outside of a plane body

Hi Ian

They make incredible violin planes. There is not enough meat to grind the soles into curves, but as a small, flat smoother they are excellent. I used one the other day to chamfer the edges of a curve, which a small block plane or even a spokeshave struggled to do.

I plan to do a few more of these planes - should make great Christmas presents.

(Oh, and I have reshaped the smoother's handle - it looked ok until I saw the photos. Now it will fool you! ).

Regards from Perth

Derek

Originally Posted by derekcohen

Hi Ian

They make incredible violin planes. There is not enough meat to grind the soles into curves, but as a small, flat smoother they are excellent. I used one the other day to chamfer the edges of a curve, which a small block plane or even a spokeshave struggled to do.

I plan to do a few more of these planes - should make great Christmas presents.

(Oh, and I have reshaped the smoother's handle - it looked ok until I saw the photos. Now it will fool you! ).

Regards from Perth

Derek

I like the idea of giving them to people for Christmas. I will forward my postal details a bit closer to the day.

You got me Derek!!

You like to toy around do you?

for a cheap violin brass plane these on ebay are only around $10 or so each, he has them in ebony as well. small ebony (specie?) various shaped planes as a kit are less than $10 each (hollows and rounds etc), singularly are only about $12ish, has them in flat smoothing at about quarter the price of the LV insert too which is another option. from a different seller these rose wood (?) high angle planes are incredibly cheap @ $12 which includes shipping to Oz!! incredible price really, they actually work too (to my utter amazement) and look much better in the hand than the pics, various sizes from about 5" and down...you can still give em away for xmas, kinda lol..cant have the fun of making them yourself like the nice little guys Derek has made, but these are much cheaper, shipping is cheaper too than from LV in the US


cheers
chippy

Originally Posted by chook

I like the idea of giving them to people for Christmas. I will forward my postal details a bit closer to the day.

Priceless comment .

Regards
Paul