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6th May 2020, 12:32 AM #1SENIOR MEMBER
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Stumpy 78
So I was thinking about making a chisel plane, but then I saw a stumpy plane on Facebook and had the great idea of modifying an old 78 that I had in my parts box. A quick cut, and a quick touch-up on the sharpening jig and l’m in business. Great for glue lines and corners etc hopefully.
Has anyone got a use for the cut off bit? Open to ideas.The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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6th May 2020, 08:21 AM #2
That’s a pretty drastic bit of surgery!
These planes often lose the nose through being dropped on concrete and end up with the front blade mounting becoming a defacto chisel plane but I don’t recall seeing one cut that far back before.
Let us know how it performs!Nothing succeeds like a budgie without a beak.
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6th May 2020, 09:57 AM #3
Ouch!
I guess necessity is the mother, and there is no shortage of 78s & their various clones in the world, but I would have found it difficult to take a hacksaw to a full body - I would have cast about for a snubbed one. As the chief says, broken-nosed 78s are all too common, though finding one quickly just when you want it would probably not happen.
Anyway, no reason it won't work well as a chisel plane, & better it has a useful life in its new guise than rusting away in landfill, which was the fate mine was heading for before I short-circuited that journey!
Cheers,IW
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6th May 2020, 03:45 PM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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It works really well thankfully.
I have a really nice 78 that I use quite often. This one was missing everything excpt the knicker and the main blade. You watch me drop my good 78 next weekend though...The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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8th May 2020, 04:54 PM #6SENIOR MEMBER
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11th May 2020, 01:23 PM #7
Oh look, here’s one for sale on Fleabay and at a low, low starting price of only 86 dolleri-doos!
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Looks like you may have started a new trend!Nothing succeeds like a budgie without a beak.
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16th May 2020, 10:59 PM #8SENIOR MEMBER
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Current bid at $148. I’m open to similar offers for mine
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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16th May 2020, 11:15 PM #9
Not only does someone want it, but somebody else wants it more??.Nothing succeeds like a budgie without a beak.
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17th May 2020, 09:59 AM #10
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17th May 2020, 10:37 AM #11
IanW this is what I was on about my son iis after ideal for planing redates on door jams to fit new doors to, he's found so many bowed jams he now uses a Circular saw and plane and chisels to straighten them.
I have 2 78s not sure I'd cut either down tho.
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18th May 2020, 08:37 PM #12
That ebay one's over $200 now Bargain compared to a new one Carbatec #778 Duplex Rabbet Plane | Carbatec NOT.
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18th May 2020, 09:49 PM #13
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19th May 2020, 09:50 AM #14
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20th May 2020, 06:12 PM #15
And yet...
HERE is an original 78, still with it's nicker, depth stop, fence AND IT'S NOSE! It's the same era; that blade logo was made in 1910 before changing to the "V" logo a year later. Bidding to kick off at a fair starting price of $10.
I'm going to put this one on my watch list as well to see what it ends up going for; my guess is between $75-$100. Which if I'm right means there is no justice or honour left in this world.Nothing succeeds like a budgie without a beak.
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