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    Quote Originally Posted by simplicity View Post
    fletty,
    just letting you know(sucking up)
    that i’ve been busy all weekend in plane making stuff,
    i reckon the others have been slacking off.

    Cheers matt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fletty View Post
    noted!
    That’s it,
    I get a noted!

    O dear

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    Quote Originally Posted by Simplicity View Post
    Fletty,
    Just letting you know(Sucking up)
    That I’ve been busy all weekend in plane making stuff,
    I reckon the others have been slacking off.
    Matt - considering how much of my weekend was taken up working on YOUR plane blade I could take exception to that.

    Note that I didn't say I would take a fence to that because your plane does not have one.
    I got sick of sitting around doing nothing - so I took up meditation.

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    Just leaving the bribery, corruption and digressions for a brief moment and returning to the original business, I had three shoulder plane blades available to anyone who is interested in participating in the challenge. Made from leaf springs, they are being posted for free (will fit in a standard envelope) so even the impoverished students among you can enter if you wish, but anyone else too. Pix and details here.

    The only condition is that you participate in the challenge. The two larger blades are spoken for but the smaller blade is still available.

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    I might just have to think about bribing officials the competition looks strong, personally i got nothing progressed on a plane but i did nearly finish off the mobile outfeed/build bench, added the draws. looking at using some hardwood fronts on them from the pile of tongue/groove floor boards i have so spent the afternoon removing the snip functionality from my very old GMC lunch box thicknesser. I did get it down to a nearly imperceptable 0.2mm measured with a dial gauge.
    Here's the bench looking a lot cleaner than the last photo of it. Need to seal that MDF on top yet
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    the bench against the wall is being pulled out so this one can sit back against the wall... task for next weekend.

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    Question Chisel as blade

    Is there any reason one could not use a decent chisel as the blade?

    Chop off the handle and grind it appropriately? (keep it cold with water, grind with a dremel or angle grinder? Tidy up on an upside down belt sander?)

    Im thinking of a 3/4 shoulder plane, mainly as I need one and I love the look of the HNT Gordons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodPixel View Post
    Is there any reason one could not use a decent chisel as the blade?

    Chop off the handle and grind it appropriately? (keep it cold with water, grind with a dremel or angle grinder? Tidy up on an upside down belt sander?)

    Im thinking of a 3/4 shoulder plane, mainly as I need one and I love the look of the HNT Gordons.
    Well, I'm not going to argue with Paul Sellers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodPixel View Post
    Is there any reason one could not use a decent chisel as the blade?

    Chop off the handle and grind it appropriately? (keep it cold with water, grind with a dremel or angle grinder? Tidy up on an upside down belt sander?)

    Im thinking of a 3/4 shoulder plane, mainly as I need one and I love the look of the HNT Gordons.
    WP

    As Doug has shown above, very doable. Look for a blade that is not tapered if possible. I will see what I have kicking around. As you may have seen from other threads, I am not always quite sure what I have or haven't got.



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    I make a little Kumiko (well, I TRY to make it) and the method of ensuring all the slats are perfect is a little jig.

    I'm thinking that a similar jig on a chisel that's not parallel/flat/tapered would be one way of doing a "surface grinder" (!!!)



    Suppose I should post this to my own thread too, as documentation is part of the reward

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    Well I'm glad I found this forum again and this challenge. I'm currently working on a Jack and have made every mistake known to man. I think I'll start over and be a part of this challenge. It will have to be a glued up/ laminated plane as I don't have any pieces of wood large enough to make a solid plane. Being maple from an old bowling lane, it's doesn't have any curl or anything to make it fancy so I guess I'll have to dress it up with the handle and possibly a knob. I have some nice rosewood I could add to the sole but I'm not sure I want to use it for this. Ideally it will have a skewed blade for use on a shooting board.

    I'm not going to make the mistakes I made on my first effort and waste time building a hand tool with hand tools! I have very limited shop time but I sure like making curls when I can.

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    I suppose I should show some pics of my failed plane, at least I think it's a failure. I won't know for sure until I make the pin and try it. I now have a second set of holes above the first but no picture of that.

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    Welcome banjopicks

    We look forward to you registering under your own name. "challenge 2020 - 2021. banjopicks". With the mistakes already out of the way you are better placed than many of us.

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    It occured to me that some people contemplating participating in the challenge might think they have missed the boat as a dozen or so competitors have begun their activities. That of course is not so. Thereis plenty of time, although one scoundrel did ask for an extension, but it doesn't do for me to name and shame.

    I know a couple of people who are contemplating joining in the fun and I would definitely encourage them to do just that. Planes occupy a large and important place in woodworking folk law. Some people just collect, not that I fully understand that type of obsession

    Plane man.jpgPlane storage.jpg

    There are the unusual, but fully functional planes that are not seen every day but revered among the cognoscenti

    Shooting board.jpg

    Not all planes are large

    Small planes.jpg

    Then there are the highly desireable infill planes so beloved by woodworkers

    Plane infil.jpg

    And there are the sculptural planes with striking imagery

    Not so plane.jpg

    Well, hopefully this will give food for thought for all those of you who are sitting on the fence.

    Go on. Just do it.



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    If you think for one moment I’m susceptible to peer pressure and just plane shaming then I am both disappointed and disgusted. That you are right.

    I am 99% certain now what to make; to the best of my knowledge it hasn’t ever been attempted by any forum member. Until my return home towards the end of this week it shall remain a secret; and I think I’ll be quite relieved to finally alight from the fence. If only to pull out the splinters.
    Nothing succeeds like a budgie without a beak.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bushmiller View Post
    It occured to me that some people contemplating participating in the challenge might think they have missed the boat as a dozen or so competitors have begun their activities. That of course is not so. Thereis plenty of time, although one scoundrel did ask for an extension, but it doesn't do for me to name and shame.

    I know a couple of people who are contemplating joining in the fun and I would definitely encourage them to do just that. Planes occupy a large and important place in woodworking folk law. Some people just collect, not that I fully understand that type of obsession

    Plane man.jpgPlane storage.jpg

    There are the unusual, but fully functional planes that are not seen every day but revered among the cognoscenti

    Shooting board.jpg

    Not all planes are large

    Small planes.jpg

    Then there are the highly desireable infill planes so beloved by woodworkers

    Plane infil.jpg

    And there are the sculptural planes with striking imagery

    Not so plane.jpg

    Well, hopefully this will give food for thought for all those of you who are sitting on the fence.

    Go on. Just do it.



    Regards
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    Paul,
    The last picture you posted,could you explain ?because it’s not plain too a simpleton like me,how that particular plain works,
    Maybe even what bed angle it is.

    I asked Sally, she replied no comment.

    Cheers Matt.

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