Thread: My Plane Stop has Superpowers

Hi All

Ever since starting to use this plan stop it been a mystery why the stop could lift so high out of the bench. The guess was the intent was for very deep timber/jointing tall narrow timber.

The other day though the timber trim bit from the scrap pile and had started planing had a taper, which had to change. was in the process of deciding the squaring up options while looking at the part and the planer stop. Then in occurred to me , that I could lift the stop up to thinnest section then move to the thicker section, to see the degree of taper.

Well that made the taper obvious. I roughly estimated how many strokes it would take to square up the section and the suitable start locations, knocked the panel stops back down - planed off that, checked again and planed a tad more. It didn't take long and was fun to do.

Well while it's not 100% certain this is how the stop was used, there is good chance it was- and it always nice to divine the purpose of an old tool, particularly when the technique is new to me..

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Cheers M