Thread: Challenge 2020 -2021 MountainAsh

Looking good MA!

Did you modify a cutter to get into the acute corners or finish them off with a chisel? If you’ve not seen it before people have repurposed old Allen keys into router cutters for those awkward shapes.

Originally Posted by Mountain Ash

Hi all. More little tasks completed. Brass covers for sliding slots for locking screws into depth adjuster made and fitted. Spending lots of time with my file and engineers vice but did use one of my favourite tools to make the shallow mortises to house them in. I love the router plane . Making this plane seems to be requiring more patience than I usually find is required. Probably just a state of mind thing but I am looking forward to getting back to my hollows and rounds project.

20201002_165141.jpg

I feel with you. Patience is not my virtue either and all that filing to a line really tests me.....

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Originally Posted by Chief Tiff

Looking good MA!

Did you modify a cutter to get into the acute corners or finish them off with a chisel? If you’ve not seen it before people have repurposed old Allen keys into router cutters for those awkward shapes.

Hi CT. I chiselled the outline, vee cut back to this line and used the 6mm cutter in the RP to get as close as I could. Then 5mm chisel and marking knife to clean up. I am a duffer because I could have used the 3mm cutter I just got for my birthday. Next time......and I have some spare allen keys too.

Hi CK. I guess all the metalwork is worth it. Today I was able to get a little more done and it's starting to get somewhere. Slots have been cut for the bolts that will hold the depth stop in place. Nuts have need mortised into depth stop to capture thread of bolts and brass capping nuts and brass washers have been epoxied to the end of the bolt.

Depth stop in shallowest position (smallest chamfer)
20201003_121427.jpg

Depth stop in deepest position (largest chamfer)
20201003_121440.jpg

Brass wear plate on bottom of depth stop (seen from underneath the plane, base still to be shaped fully)
20201003_121511.jpg

Originally Posted by Mountain Ash

Hi CK. I guess all the metalwork is worth it. Today I was able to get a little more done and it's starting to get somewhere. Slots have been cut for the bolts that will hold the depth stop in place. Nuts have need mortised into depth stop to capture thread of bolts and brass capping nuts and brass washers have been epoxied to the end of the bolt.

Depth stop in shallowest position (smallest chamfer)
20201003_121427.jpg

Depth stop in deepest position (largest chamfer)
20201003_121440.jpg

Brass wear plate on bottom of depth stop (seen from underneath the plane, base still to be shaped fully)
20201003_121511.jpg

MA.
It’s looking absolutely fantastic, but it’s still Creek to me.

Cheers Matt.

Thanks Matt. I thought these photos might have helped. Things left to do are hollow out a big chunk of the depth adjuster block (to allow shavings to escape), make the wooden wedge and cut a rebate in the bed for the screw head. And then the dress up bits, chamfered, round over, etc

I only know what MA is doing as I have watched Stavros Gakos' video again. I must say watching that video it also only made sense to me towards the end. It is a very interesting build.

You can google it or just keep watching MA's build as it unravels.

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Originally Posted by Cklett

I only know what MA is doing as I have watched Stavros Gakos' video again. I must say watching that video it also only made sense to me towards the end. It is a very interesting build.

You can google it or just keep watching MA's build as it unravels.

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

I’m going to stick with MA s build Chanel, it’s more exciting that way.

Cheers Matt.

This one's for you Matt. After much humming and hawing (even watching the video again CK, I was still guessing a bit) I got the clearance section cut out and the angle meeting the wedge too. After checking out the body for the cap iron screw I was able to trial fit the blade with the chip breaker (cap iron, which name is right?). Now these photos might help those who are still unsure what's going on

Blade installed (gap is for the wedge)
20201004_171155.jpg

Slightly more stylish angle
20201004_171225.jpg

I realise now that these photos don't show the gap I cut today (in the depth guide) for the shavings to be ejected. You will have to wait for my next exciting instalment

Me again. I don't know if anyone has noticed the improved orientation of my photos. Turns out if I rotate phone 90° and take photo in landscape mode, they upload properly. And looking at the 2nd photo I can clearly see the ding where I dropped the body on the floor....lucky it will be chamfered off. But not with my chamfer plane, oh the irony

Originally Posted by Mountain Ash

This one's for you Matt. After much humming and hawing (even watching the video again CK, I was still guessing a bit) I got the clearance section cut out and the angle meeting the wedge too. After checking out the body for the cap iron screw I was able to trial fit the blade with the chip breaker (cap iron, which name is right?). Now these photos might help those who are still unsure what's going on

Blade installed (gap is for the wedge)
20201004_171155.jpg

Slightly more stylish angle
20201004_171225.jpg

I realise now that these photos don't show the gap I cut today (in the depth guide) for the shavings to be ejected. You will have to wait for my next exciting instalment

Ye well of course like Ye I mean herrrrr
Ye I knew that’s how it works,
Like derrrtrr.


Thank you MA for enlightening me,I can be a simple fellow sometimes.

Nice work on the plane, yes I now see how it works, thank you.

Cheers Matt.

Morning Matt. I like simple things. That's why I'm staying away from metal infills (even withstanding Ian's encouragement) and leaving them up to cleverer blokes than me. Your brass sides are looking good by the way

Originally Posted by Mountain Ash

Morning Matt. I like simple things. That's why I'm staying away from metal infills (even withstanding Ian's encouragement) and leaving them up to cleverer blokes than me. Your brass sides are looking good by the way

MA Metal is just hard timber that’s all,
Thank you for the compliment.

Cheers Matt.

Another instalment from the "tableclothless" plane maker. Taking advantage of the time I have I got lots of "fitting" done today. Fitting the blade to the bed, fitting the wedge to the cap iron and depth adjuster, fitting the depth adjuster to the wedge and to the throat. Wedge has also been shaped (and resurrected - boy can a forstner bit do some damage very quickly, and this required refitting the wedge after planing away the scratch). Scratch plates for the depth adjuster locking bolts have finally been epoxied into position, after a "final" going over with the smoothing plane. Base was also shaped to finished profile with a succession of rebating planes (wooden of course) and things are really staring to come together. Sorry there's no photo of installed wedge but the end is in sight.

20201005_180307.jpg