Plane Making Plans On The Web?

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L. Hanson in N. Idaho

>I'm not a regular poster here, so forgive me if I'm not using the proper etiquette for posting links.

There a Krenov style plan available at http://www.lowes.com/lkn?action=howTo&p=Build/BldHndPln&topic=howToLibrary

Steve Knight's (I believe he posts here) web site has a nice pictorial of him building a plane at http://www.knight-toolworks.com/about.htm that is quite helfpul.

I've put a couple pages about building a traditional coffin smoother on my web site (forgive me, I've just started putting the web site together, so its not very organized or complete yet - as if it ever will be). There's also a thing on making some planemakers' floats there, which are incredibly helpful in making planes.

I don't have any plans on those pages, I think you could figure them out from the pictures if your resourceful. The mouth design is basically the same for a fore plane as for a coffin plane - you would just need to add a handle - you could pattern it off of this one -

http://www.norsewoodsmith.com/img/planes/handle1.jpg

which is the handle off of my great granddad's wooden jointer. The coffin smoother I built is loosely based on the pamphlet written by David Perch and Leonard Lee. I made it for fun - so it's not a how-to, more of a what-happened-to-me-when-I-made-one sort of a thing.


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Welcome Nordic

Wendell @ Murphy, TX

>I saw your post about plane building on Woodnet. I really like your detailed description of making plane floats on your website. I have question that's been bugging me. In your description of grinding the floats, you mention not wanting to 'blue' the steel. I am wondering if this really matters in this application. My understanding is that blueing means that you lost the temper in the steel. Since you haven't heat treated the steel at this point, does blueing really hurt anything? I am trying to get a handle on this metalworking stuff so I can maybe someday make my own plane irons.

Wendell

L. Hanson! Thank You!

Howard Toronto Man

>That's a great website you've got. Howard

Re: Welcome Nordic

L. Hanson in N. Idaho

>I don't really know if bluing the steel is much of an issue with those - probably not. I do think its still good practice, though. It might make the steel too soft in that area, which might be an issue if the teeth get blued, or the at least the area where you are going to cut the new teeth. It's not hard to keep the steel from bluing with a jar of water handy, so why not?

The steel is pretty soft as is - I expect I'll have to sharpen those floats before too many uses. I'm still considering whether or not to try tempering them, but they need to be heated across a pretty large area, and evenly - so a mapp torch won't do as it tough to heat evenly across a larger piece with one. Then I'm scared I'll screw up the teeth by heating them up - I guess some experimenting is necessary on my part. I've gotten lots of good advice, just need to try it for myself.

I've been wanting to make my own plane irons as well, but keep getting stuck on a few issues, like on how I would make the chipbreaker... or even if its needed. I notice Clark and Williams don't use one, but I'm not convinced. Tempering larger pieces of steel is another issue for me, as mentioned above. This summer sometime, I was thinking I might try a make a little forge out of an old weber grill I have to do it - but there are so many project I want to do, and so little time, so I'm not sure I'll get to it.

I'm no metalworking guy myself, so I can't really say much more than that - I'm still learning myself, and it looks like a long path ahead... I'm glad you enjoyed reading about a couple of my little projects!

Re: L. Hanson! Thank You!

L. Hanson in N. Idaho

>Thank you, Howard - I just hope you are able to glean some useful information off of it.

Re: Plane Making Plans On The Web? *LINK*

walt quadrato

>welcome! don't I know you from somewhere????

walt q


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