Thread: Wooden Plane Rebirthing

Originally Posted by kamusur

To steal that anonymous quote 'any tool can be used as a hammer/mallet', but you are going to have trouble doing those guitar plates now Rob with that plane.

Steve

Hi Steve,

I think I know where you are coming from about the guitar plates, I'm not 100% on that though ?
If your saying that would be a hard job to do with that plane, Join the top and back together , I once would have said the same . I once would have said " It has to be a harder plane to use than a nice Stanley or whatever type you may like to use in the modern cast iron type" Probably because the modern types took over so they must be better. I have read that when iron and cast iron planes came in , the old guys that only ever used the woodies stuck to them and the new guys took up with the new types. The old guys thought it was a silly idea . You know , " new planes Bah!! "

I reckon one of these on a shooting board would be a breeze to do a perfect job. I had a job a while back doing two Mahogany bed side chests and decided to joint the 18 Mahogany boards with this plane for those sides + tops, and hide glue them together. Up till that day for me, the woodies were for moulding smoothing and roughing , and a few jointing trials on things like pine backs where I would hog it off and then fine tune with the bedrock 7 .

Doing the full jointing of the boards that were trued on the buzzer first , the testing for no rocking, making sure there was a tally ho paper thickness hollow left in the middle, if that , and that the two were in the same plane when stacked, before gluing involved the same tweaking of the plane as the Bedrock would have needed .
It worked fine , I just felt a bit clumsy at first , it feels completely different , light in the weight, and it was thick and bulky . It felt good to have done that with that plane , sense of achievement type of thing .

Rob