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24th October 2021, 10:00 PM #1Senior Member
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Pliers Plane Stop
I was doing some internet surfing and then stumbled upon this!!!
Ingenious Chinese Planing Stop | Popular Woodworking Magazine
And then when I was watching youtube. I noticed the same type of plane stop!!
手工打造榫卯结构储蛋木盒🍳Making a Wooden Egg Storage Box 丨小喜XiaoXi丨Traditional Crafts - YouTube ( the plane stop is used from 0:00 to 0:46)
So I decided to make my own!! They look too cool not to make!!!
Bought some pliers for $5.70 from bunnings. (190mm Diagonal Pliers - Bunnings Australia)
Took the rubber off the handles. The whole pliers are tool steel. Annealed it, hack sawed the ends of the handles and then heat treated it. And here we are!!
They work wonderfully!!
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Here is a video of it in action : https://www.instagram.com/tv/CVaIKAmpFCd/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
It should be able to satisfy most of my planing needs. I might struggle with planing veneers. But luckily I have the HNT Gordon Vice.
I just feel bad for my bench top. There will be lots of holes it in now!!!
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25th October 2021, 09:01 AM #2
Good one, Bernard - actually similar devices have been around in the European world for a very long time, too - probably convergent evolution but the Chinese were far ahead of the Europeans technologically for a while, so they probably had it first.
Years ago, before I made my bench with a tail vise & 'dog' system, I used one of these as my planing stop. It's a really nifty development on the double spike principle since you can adjust the height quickly & easily (until accumulated gunk like spilled linseed oil makes the thread stiff, that is ). The other big advantage at the time I found was that being aluminium, it did not take a chunk out of my plane blade when inadvertent contact occurred...
Cheers,IW
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26th October 2021, 08:13 PM #3Senior Member
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Thanks for sharing that Ian! So cool!!
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27th October 2021, 07:21 AM #4Senior Member
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This is what I do. I saw it somewhere or other years back, finally got around to installing it a couple of years ago, and have kicked myself ever since that I didn't do it earlier.
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