Showing posts with label plane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plane. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Plane Cabinet
When I did my workbench I enclosed a shelf for most utilized planes. The shelf became full rapidly and several planes had not a dedicate place. The solution was building a new cabinet for hand planes, a good way for keeping them in order and ready to use.
I used the frame and panel technique, with panels inserted in grooves cut in the frame inner edge.
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| on the bottom are the long planes boxes |
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| The loop screw engages a chain for keeping the mobile shelf |
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| the cabinet is anchored to the wall for avoid its tipping |
The smaller planes are on a mobile shelf; this rotates, permitting the access to the back.
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| Long planes are available after the shelf is tilted forward |
By utilizing recycled wood, well have to accept some defects it will show, if we want to avoid of discarding too much wood.
In this case the wood was varnished and exposed to sun (windows) during some decades; this caused tone differences you can see mainly in lateral panels.However this is a shop cabinet and I think some defect is acceptable.
The building details are shown in the video in the previous post.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Infill Plane
Yes, I waited a few years before getting such a kind of plane, believed to be among the best ones. The famous Norris, Spiers etc. have dangerous prices, so I contented myself with a probably auto-built plane.
This specimen is almost 8 inches long (20 cm); the plane body has the typical form (coffin) of smoothing British planes, with mahogany infill wood and a mahogany handle. Its weight is 1.8 kg, 400 grams more than a Stanley 3 wich has more or less a comparable length.It has a brass lever cap, as well as the clamping screw. A little brass plate is screwed on the front wood insert, probably for giving an aesthetic additional touch (debatable). The blade (2 1 / 8 "/ 54mm) is marked HEARNSHAW BROS (1881-1960).
The tools was in good condition, despite some age signs and some old repairs. In particular it seems the handle has been repaired or replaced. However it has been reinforced by screws, hidden by caps. It is very solid. That is why I decided to leave the plane in its original condition, worrying only of blade and sole that required the attention necessary to re-put the tool at work.
Unlike traditional metal planes (like Bailey), the sole lapping tends to open the mouth, so we must act only when absolutely necessary and with great caution.
In my case, the sole was almost perfectly flat and the work on 180 Grit abrasive paper had virtually no impact on the mouth width (only 0.25 mm). The blade is bedded to 45 °. The blade bevel was about 30 degrees and so I reground it, without microbevel. The chipbreaker took a little leveling job on the side in contact with the blade.
I rounded the cutting edge at both ends to avoid the plane can leave marks onto work pieces. Even the sole edges were rounded crawling the plane and keeping it inclined in respect to abrasive surface. The mouth requested filing assistance to adapt the opening to the cutting edge.
About four hour job and........................
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