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27th April 2021, 12:23 AM #16
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16th May 2021, 08:02 PM #17SENIOR MEMBER
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Have been super busy for the last 3 weeks helping my long suffering wife with a major project in the garden but managed found a few minutes here and there to finish the plane off.
After gluing up the body, the general shape of the plane was cut out on the bandsaw.
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Then rounded off the sharp edges with a combination of rasp and sander. Kept nibbling away at the corners and edges until I had a plane that felt comfortable in my hand
Next came what for me was the trickiest bit, opening up the mouth.
Firstly I flattened the base on the buzzer taking a very fine cut then touched up lightly by with a smoothing plane.
To open the mouth, I used a combination of 220 grit sandpaper on a flat stick and a coarse metal file. Spent 2 or 3 hours fluffing about working slowly and carefully with many trial assembly’s before I finally had shavings coming nicely out of the plane . Am happy with the mouth, a 0.5mm feeler gauge is a tight fit.
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Now the interesting bit, does it work. After a bit of adjusting to get the blade protrusion right was able to make some pine shavings. They measured about 0.1 mm thick.
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Now for something more interesting, and practical, a piece of blackwood with reversing grain and tear out.
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Took some super fine shavings, about 0.05mm, and the tear out in the blackwood wasn't perfect was much improved after a few swipes.
So I'm pleased with this little plane and am happy to call this a success. Will be keen to put it through its paces over the next couple of months.
All that remains to do now is a couple of coats of Boiled Linseed Oil.
Im guessing that I spent the best part of two days making this little plane and nearly a morning of that was opening the mouth. Would expect that the next will be a little quicker. Although it did take a couple of hours preparing the rough piece of wood I used. Ended up squaring up a couple of pieces of wood before I found one I was happy with.You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ~Oscar Wilde
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16th May 2021, 08:19 PM #18
Yay, another finisher; well done!
As for a name may I offer The Kombustable Krenov for your consideration?Nothing succeeds like a budgie without a beak.
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17th May 2021, 06:58 AM #19
Tony
Excellent build. I wish I could say my plane took two days to build, but it felt like two months and was probably more .
Regards
PaulBushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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17th May 2021, 08:36 AM #20
Tony,
It’s excellent, really nice work.
Cheers Matt.
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17th May 2021, 08:56 AM #21SENIOR MEMBER
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Fast build, fast looking plane. Nice work Tony.
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17th May 2021, 04:07 PM #22
Great work! Looking forward to the presentation to the judges in the judgement thread.
We need more across the finish line!
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17th May 2021, 08:36 PM #23SENIOR MEMBER
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7th June 2021, 10:07 PM #24SENIOR MEMBER
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Final photos of a finished plane.
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The dark coloured marks on the plane body are from some water stain in the wood.
An interesting project and a pleasing end result.You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ~Oscar Wilde
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8th June 2021, 08:23 AM #25
That looks really good. Love the colors.
I guess then it's off to the judges corner [emoji3]
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8th June 2021, 10:59 AM #26GOLD MEMBER
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Nice work Tony. What timbers did you use?
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8th June 2021, 11:25 AM #27SENIOR MEMBER
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Thanks MA. Used Eucalyptus obliqua, or what we would call stringy bark locally, for the plane body and a blackwood wedge. Finished with BLO.
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ~Oscar Wilde
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