Thread: A pseudo-badger plane

Originally Posted by IanW

Geoff, you wouldn't say that if you knew how many of my projects get done at snail pace. Much depends on my level of enthusiasm. The shade-house I promised LOML before Summer got going isn't even started. I'd better get to it soon, or the hot weather will be over (if it ever does go away!) & I'll be saying.........
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"Now is the winter of our discontent."



Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

"Now is the winter of our discontent." ...

Yeah, with no sun or son around to make it glorious summer....

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

"Now is the winter of our discontent."

Originally Posted by IanW

Yeah, with no sun or son around to make it glorious summer....

More of the badger and less of the bard please, you’re bringing back some painful school memories!

Originally Posted by Chief Tiff

More of the badger and less of the bard please,.......

OK Chief, I promise I won't badger you any more...

I was just browsing some images of old (infill) badger planes, as it happens. Still undecided if my full-scale model will be just skewed or whether to go the full monty and expose the cutty bit through the side.

I can't figure out why Konrad decided to make his version with a half-inch thick, tapered sidewall. He doesn't explain why, either in that write-up or on his blog, just mentions it, & complains how it complicated getting the infill to fit. From the pictures of the old planes I can find, they all had symmetrical sidewalls of equal thickness like this one. They also all seem to have lever-caps set parallel with the blade-bed, which is how I intended to do the 'pseudo-badger' until I got into difficulties trying to figure out how to pivot it. Konrad used a skewed pin (he mentions how much more difficult it was to peen), i.e., it goes through the LC parallel with the top & bottom & parallel with the blade-bed. That was how I first envisaged doing it, but it seemed to me that would effectively lock the LC in position & it wouldn't be able to rotate enough to get the blade assembly in & out.

Setting the LC square with the sides allows full rotation (& looks neater from on top), but it means making a compound shape at the toe end. I think that will be harder for a 2 3/8" wide version (which is what I intend using) on the full-scale model, because I'll have to start with a mighty chunk of brass in order to be able to cut the necessary amount of twist on the toe. Can anyone with better visio-spatial abilities explain to me how this lever-cap can rotate more than a mm without fouling the sides? My working hypothesis is that the lower end of the LC must be tapered away from the pivot point, enough to clear the walls over the short arc of LC movement required to get the blade assembly in & out, but none of the pics I can find show the LC from front-on in sharp enough detail to confirm that. I wish I could get a genuine article in my paws for just one minute!

Cheers,

Originally Posted by IanW

......I can't figure out why Konrad decided to make his version with a half-inch thick, tapered sidewall. He doesn't explain why, either in that write-up or on his blog, just mentions it, & complains how it complicated getting the infill to fit. .....

Quite a conundrum, Ian.

No mention of why he did assymetric walls either on Lee Valley or Sauer and Steiner websites.
Sauer & Steiner: That badger plane

Intriguingly the left hand sidewall is the thick one, whereas the blade escapement is through the right hand sidewall. It was not to add stiffness in way of that piecing.

And he went to a lot of trouble to minimise the visibility of that thicker sidewall.


Cheers

Graeme