Thread: Coffin Smoother

Originally Posted by prozac

Ray, top marks for a fine looking plane.

Is there a reason why the steel is peened into the brass cut-outs and not the other way round?

Hi Prozac,

Thanks, the dovetails are a bit of a long story, it's covered pretty comprehensively earlier in this thread, but they are double dovetails, that is tails appear on both sides the steel sole and the brass sides, this neat little trick, is done by filing relief cuts on the side of the brass pins and then peining the steel into those cuts, this is exactly, as it happens one of the things I stuffed up. The steel didn't flow all the way into the corners, ( Peter gave a very detailed answer to this issue earlier in this thread),

Regards
Ray

PS Peter, I don't have Kingshot's book but sounds like I should get a copy.

Ray,
Jim Kingshott's books has a couple of little nuggets of information, but as Jim said once, his publisher had too much control of the process and it was edited out of context. The spring is one Idea, another is a long headless screw, with a thread on one side of the body, and a slot on the other, or a pair of home made machine screws could look nice.
Regards,
Peter

Speechless Ray. what a plane, first of many I hope.

Originally Posted by RayG

Hi Peter,

Here are the obligitatory "glamor" shots, you have to photoshop your own staples however!
Ray

Smooth

Ray,

That is one fantastic looking plane you've made. Your WIP has been a great learning aid to follow and will be of an enormous help to anyone wanting to follow in your footsteps.

Absolutely awesome.

Ray
Haven't posted before on this thread but have been watching very carefully.
This project is climbing its way towards the top of my to-do list.
You and Peter are inspirational.
Have a greenie.

Originally Posted by RayG

Hi Peter,

Here are the obligitatory "glamor" shots, you have to photoshop your own staples however!

hey this is worthy of at least some velvet!!

Lovely stuff Ray.
Thanks for sharing the step by step progress. Now, ...I think that the new beasty should be posted in the show off your planes thread. It has to join the other Tool posts.
Seriously lovely work. Peter has inspired a new plane maker with more on the way.
Well done guys.
Kevin

Finally, got to make a new blade from 6mm 01 steel and my first try at heat treating.

The steel, is from these fine folks.. ( replying to question in other thread from FunkyChicken )

http://www.flat-stock.com/~store/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=T&Product_Code=PM-O1ONMM



Be prepared for sticker shock when you see the freight costs!

After a bit of mucking about cutting and filing (must take a picture of the iron) and a small oil fire! (note to self.. do the oil quenching outside)

I pretty much followed the process described here. http://www.threeplanes.net/toolsteel.html After quenching I foolishly
pulled the iron out too quick and that's when it caught fire, so I had to start all over...

I reworked the mouth opening and got to 0.002" which I was pretty happy about, but after a bit, I decided to open it up
a fraction and finished up at 0.006" which feels better to me at least.



Here are some shavings, measuring about 1 thou, as best I can tell.



You might notice I still haven't done the spring loaded lever cap pins, I'm having too much fun
making shavings...

From what I can see so far, the range of blade adjustment required for a narrow mouth opening on a smoother is next to nothing,
which makes me wonder why would you want an adjuster, I can't see wanting to change depth of cut very often, (if at all) ..

I had a strip of steel cut off the side which I used to try out the heat treatment process, a friend now has a nice 1/4" mortising chisel...

Gotta love that 01 steel, the edge you can get on that stuff is beautiful..

Regards
Ray

Good job Ray. Looks fantastic, and I'm sure performs good as well.

Many hours of satisfation to come just taking those wispy thin shavings, and thats before you get to make something with it.

Originally Posted by RayG

The steel, is from these fine folks.. ( replying to question in other thread from FunkyChicken )

http://www.flat-stock.com/~store/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=T&Product_Code=PM-O1ONMM




Regards
Ray

About 3 years ago I bought a piece of O1 50x5x500 from Bohler Uddeholm (specialist steel suppliers). Cost about $50 back then. Thats dearer than the supplier in the states but I guess it depends on the freight cost from OS.

John

Congratulations!! I think you did an AWSOME work, thanks very much for sharing. I find it very very inspiring... I hope I can achieve that some day.



Saludos!
Mariano