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4th October 2021, 08:50 AM #31GOLD MEMBER
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Veritas router plane blades do fit in Record router planes, you just have to invert the height adjustment nut
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4th October 2021, 10:48 AM #32
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4th October 2021, 10:52 AM #33
Question for Derek
What is the trick to locking the cutter orientation on Veritas's small router plane?regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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4th October 2021, 11:48 AM #34
Ian, the shaft is round and vulnerable to turning in use. You can crank it down, but a better fix is to grind a V on the back of the shaft, where it seats. This can be shallow - in retrospect, the blade I converted was ground quite a bit deeper than necessary, but that works as well.
Details here: http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMad...uterPlane.html
Regards from Perth
DerekVisit www.inthewoodshop.com for tutorials on constructing handtools, handtool reviews, and my trials and tribulations with furniture builds.
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5th October 2021, 01:53 AM #35Senior Member
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Coming at this from another angle - I've had the good/bittersweet fortune of inheriting some of those keep-forever tools and the stuff that feels special to hold is the measuring/machinist gear. Old gauges, micrometers, calipers etc. from brands like Starrett, Moore & Wright, Mitutoyo, Brown and Sharpe. I have a B&S combination square that must be at least half a century old and it eats for breakfast anything you find in a big box store. Smooth, accurate, heavy, secure. Also anything Australian made - old P&N and Sutton drills, taps, etc. feel significant, especially given the decline in Australian manufacturing.
So there are a couple of ideas that aren't already on your list - a nice combination square, or maybe something from Vesper Tools
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5th October 2021, 02:16 AM #36GOLD MEMBER
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precise known-tolerance measuring stuff is a wonderful idea. Nobody likes to pay for it themselves, but especially things like squares and straight edges, it's nice to have at least one of each that's definitive that doesn't get used for anything other than checking other tools or only really precise things.
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5th October 2021, 04:55 PM #37SENIOR MEMBER
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Years ago when I was shopping a lot for tools I made it easy on everyone who wanted to buy me tools. Went to Lee Valley and set up a wish list they could access. Gives them good food for thought, and with todays shipping woes the wish list can help them shop within Australia for alternatives...
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