Hand Plane...Here I come....
Barry Irby
Building a walnut bed for my Son and DIL. Cutting a cap piece for the head and footboard. Basically a 1 x 6 taperc form 7/8" thick to a 1/2" on the edge. About an 1 1/2" surface on the angle. Tipped the blade on the TS voer about 12 Degrees, set the fence at about a half inch and stood them on edge and ripped them. Now, how to do the ends? To tall to stand up on the table. Bandsaw?
Used a recently acquired marking gauge complete with Japanese writing to mark the depth across the end. Squared a line across with an Igage-it square. Drew on the miter lines across the inclines. Picked up my cheap Stanley hand plane I recently bought at an auction and slightly refurbished and sharpened within an inch of its life. Set the blade and cap iron the way Bill Tindall suggested. Planed the end off to the correct incline. Did two more. I thought, this went so quickly I should time myself on the last one. Took about a minute. I would be more accurate on the time, but I forgot to consider the second hand in the timing. Am I starting down some slippery slope where the cords fall off more of my tools? None of the tools in this exercise even had a battery, not even my watch.
