Thread: A pure gloat

Nice but.... when I was taught the darkside arts at Hogwarths last century, the picky buga teacher would get all bitter & twisted if you sat a plane down flat like that.

It should be either on it's side or on a rest to keep the blade off the floor.

Don't like them, handles too small, and they aren't good for throwing around the shed.



Or something like that.....

1st use will be on what?

If you notice in the photo Cliff, the planes are standing on some grubby MDF bench cover. I don`t think the cryo-genitally treated blade will come to any harm on that.
Clinton1, they`re going to be used on my next project, an arched dial long case clock. This is a new case for an existing clock I built some 20 years ago. I did`t build this case very well then, no knowledge of cross grain gluing and allowance for wood movement etc. It`s going to be made in American Cherry which should be here in the next few days. I`ve posted a photo of the origanal plans I used, had to make some adjustments to the plans as the new dial is slightly smaller. The router cutters I recieved yesterday, the radius cutter will be used to partly shape the large base and hood mouldings. The other cutter is for a coffee table project when the clock is finished.

Mmmm, yes. The bronze #4 is one of my favourite planes to use. I have it set up with a fine mouth and shallow cut for transparent shavings and a glassy finish. Often a bit of wax on the bottom is required to overcome the friction between the two very flat surfaces (the wood and the plane).

I tried the scraper plane once at a LN stand in a WW show, and found it a bit of a bugger: grabbed and jumped all over the place. Didn't get one for that reason. I regularly use a hand-scraper or the LV scraper holder. Would be interested to hear how you go with it.

Zenwood, You have to play around with the angle of the blade until you find the point where it cuts sweetly. Believe me, when you find it, it works superbly. I was surprised to read in the instructions that it works best with just a sharp blade, and it`s true. You can put a burr on the blade but it tends to cut more coarsely. A sharp blde will clean up any problem woods with finer shavings.

I push a Stanley 112 and find the same thing.

Greg

I just got one thing to say

mmmmmmmmmm.................very nice

I must admit since I started buying LN gear I would'nt touch any other brand. I just love em! yer yer I know theres other equivilants..............but none quite like the LN's

The sad part is im going to be a very poor man for a very long time!

Self confessed dark side slave

REgards lOU

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Nice but.... when I was taught the darkside arts at Hogwarths last century, the picky buga teacher would get all bitter & twisted if you sat a plane down flat like that.

It should be either on it's side or on a rest to keep the blade off the floor.

Cliff,
This is a great topic for a heated argument, isn't it? I've known blokes who would knock your head off if you put a plane down the 'wrong' way - even if it was your own! :eek:

When I was a lad back in the half-century before you were at Hogwarts, we had one teacher who would go ballistic if you put a plane down flat on the bench, and one who didn't care - his reasoning was that if the steel in the blade wasn't a hell of a lot harder than the bench top, you should get yourself a decent blade. (He was a cabinet-maker, btw.) Rather than trying to remember which one was looking, I developed the habit of always laying them on the side. Some years later, (being of an independant nature and enquiring mind, you see.... ) I thought I would try sitting them down on the bench any old way that was convenient, and see what happened. The sky didn't fall down, and I didn't notice any effect whatever on the edges (and I AM pretty fussy with my edges, to forestall that comeback! ), so I suspect the second teacher was close to the money. For the last 30 years, I've put them down blade-down, and reckon I've probably saved them from the odd nick from another tool rolling against an exposed blade, which more than compensates for the infinitesmal dulling I may have caused.

Of couse, if you run with a benchtop littered with chisels, scraper blades, old iron filings and grinder swarth amongst the shavings, all bets are off.............

Cheers,

The picky buga teacher had little thin blocks of wood stuck to the bench top that we had to rest our planes on so the blade was off the deck.

but where do you plug them in ?

Originally Posted by Zed

but where do you plug them in ?

Ahh Mate!

There's some science to that!

First you have to unsheath some 415V cable ends, then liberally apply some graphite over the (disconnected) ends; insert said ends of the cable into the old fundamental, and just flick the switch :eek:

Gran hold one a hand plane and ... never seen a bloke plane faster, ever albeit briefly