Large smoother update
Hi, it’s been a while but I have made some progress on my large smoothing plane.
I’d never made a plane handle before, so i decided to have a go with an offcut of beech, before commiting myself to something a little more interesting. I’m not quite sure what wood to use yet, but I’m thinking that a darker wood would look good against the brass sides, Walnut maybe? Bubinga? Cocobolo? Your comments would be most welcome. Also, where can I get hold of such small pieces of these timbers? I guess that woodturning blanks would be a good bet. I’d also like ideas as to what to do with the front bun.
The iron is yet to be hardened and tempered, but that shouldn’t take me too long. It’s massive, at a full 6mm thick, so chatter shouldn’t be much of an issue.
The lever cap is held in place using spring loaded pins, as Jim Kingshot documented in his book “Making and Modifying Woodworking Tools”.
Although the plane looks almost complete, there’s still a lot of shaping, tweaking and lapping to be done, I’m probably no more than half way through the build at the moment. Getting the infills to fit well is going to be quite a task!
Cheers
Aled
Comments
Leave a Reply
