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5th October 2020, 03:23 PM #1
Infill Scrub Plane
I've got wood, brass, steel and a blade. All the ingredients for an infill plane.
This is going to be my first dovetailed infill plane. I thought I make it a bit easier for me by choosing a scrub plane for the start. One the sole doesn't have to be super flat and the mouth not super fine. Quite the opposite. But I can get practise make a dovetail plane body.
The wood I chose is chinese elm. That tree was cut down in our backyard a couple years back and drying in my garage.
Funnily enough I milled it myself and it is quite rough. So I need a scrub plane to prep the wood first. Well for that I have a cheap #4 which I had converted to a scrub plane.
If the new one turns out nice then it might have been it's last job [emoji16]
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5th October 2020, 04:26 PM #2
This tool making thing is quite addictive I think.
Watching with keen interest.
Cheers Matt.
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8th October 2020, 01:56 AM #3Member
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Tool making, who want's to build furniture when there's cool tools to be made. Looking forward to this plane build.
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8th October 2020, 11:18 AM #4
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8th October 2020, 12:35 PM #5
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8th October 2020, 04:20 PM #6
Your thread has reminded me of Stavros Gakos’s Dovetailed Scrub Plane that he made. I will try and link an Instagram post here Login • Instagram
It seems to work,but opens up Instagram on another page.
I am thinking about making one like this, once I am finished my challenge plane.
In hindsight, I should have started with a build like this.Brad.
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8th October 2020, 09:00 PM #7
Yes, but also inspired by this guy
Make a scrub plane - YouTube
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8th October 2020, 09:46 PM #8GOLD MEMBER
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Great link. I have watched a few of his videos. He is very clever. And I like the profile of yours.
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11th October 2020, 01:28 PM #9
Some progress.
I cut out the sole and sanded it down. As it was just some hot rolled mild steel I had to flatten it a bit. I went as far as I thought is good enough as I expect some distortion again from bashing the metals together.
It sits mainly quite tight. Some further refinement still needed.
But I have one 0.4mm gap, where I hope I have enough metal to peen into and close the gap. Any thoughts on that?
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11th October 2020, 02:21 PM #10GOLD MEMBER
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As Matt would say, just get a big hammer! Sorry CK, probably better to get some advice from someone who knows what they are doing. Dovetails are looking good on the whole
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11th October 2020, 02:35 PM #11
Wow, Cklett your flying again,
I’ve only done two dovetail construction planes, but I would say as long as you have enough steel , that one dovetail that has a gap should close up and disappear altogether,
Once you start peening them together(I prefer bashing ,but the snobs around hear might get upset at us.).
Cheers Matt.
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12th October 2020, 12:02 AM #12
Stupid question time...one peens the brass right? Not the steel, or both.....
This is because the steel holds the "dovetail" shape and the brass moulds itself into it?
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12th October 2020, 07:09 AM #13
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14th October 2020, 08:10 PM #14
Not much progress. Work put a grinding halt on my shed time.
From Matt's post in other thread however I thought I can improve on my tools a bit by grinding off the face of an older square file as a safe edge.
Then I needed a handle for that file and by rummaging in my scrap pile found a handle from a rolling pin my wife broke. And no, she did not break it over my head. Although if she would have be sure I'd deserved it ;-)
So I quickly turned that into a handle with a piece of copper pipe as ferule. A bit of work with a rasp to fit the ferule, some BLO and wax and finnished the handle. It'll do for now.
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17th October 2020, 11:17 AM #15
Practise, practise, practise....
Second side fitted to the sole. I think this time I got a better fit than on the first one.
Next is doing the mouth and then preparing for peening.
I thought to give a bit more stats as well.
The blade is about 44mm wide and the body with 300mm somewhere between a #4 and #5. It puts it to similar length as Lee Valley scrub plane, but wider.
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