No 52 chute board plane

Re: No 52 chute board plane

joel

>IT's great. I use mine for shooting everything.

The slanted handle is comfortable to use and with the 51 it is dead nuts accurate. It has one flaw - it's right handed. and what that means is I don't have the option even for 90 cuts of always picking any combination of edge and face for registering against the fence.

It also doesn't have a moveable frog so you cannot stock a thick iron in it. The stock iron works OK but I first added a Clifton Cap iron - which reallly boosted performance and then a specially made standard thickness Holtey A2 Iron - again another boost in performance and edge retention. This is less of an issue but a design ommission if you want my opinion. IT's not like stanley didn't know how to make movable frogs back then.

The shoot board of course has limitions too - length being the most obvious, but once you have the plane making your own shooting board is pretty trivial.

Re: No 52 chute board plane

R.J.Whelan

>Robin ... maybe one of the old Badger Pond members will remember more details: there is a chap in (I think) New Jersey who made a really first class replica of the plane and shooting board. The pictures showed the work to be top-drawer and I seem to remember he made 3 or 4 of them and was planning to sell them for about $1200 (that may seem steep, but if you saw the level of craftsmanship you'd understand the cost).

rj

Paul Jordan/Russ Allen

Alister

>Were dabbling with this a few years back...not sure what came of it????

Otherfolks made mitre rigs too.

The photo attached is a Rogers (from the Lynn woodworking Mueseum in Ashburton New Zealand)....that later turned into the millers falls model

Re: Paul Jordan/Russ Allen *LINK*

Russ Allen - Chicago

>I'm still around. The foundry that cast the planes went under and Paul has lost interest in machining the planes. I'm working on finding replacements for both.

Galoot Mike Lindgren built a cool wooden shooting board for the left handed version of the shooting plane. There's a link to it on the page below. Also, as often sited, Jeff Gorman's page http://www.amgron.clara.net/planingpoints/rampedboard/rampindex.htm contains plans for a shooting board.

Russ Allen

Chicago


My shooting board page

Re: No 52 chute board plane

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>A large part of any old tool's value is the scarcity, and if they are scarce, that means not many people bought them. One of the things on my list to do is make a wooden shooting board with a Krenov style plane in a groove and an adjustable angle fence for the part that needs to be shot. It would be fairly easy and pretty handy to have around, just takes time.

Re: Paul Jordan/Russ Allen

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>If you get up and running again, please do post some pics and info here!