New African Mahogany Thread

Festool ROS

Steve Wargo

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2nd vote for ROS

Mike in Mystic

>I can see the challenge of wanting to use hand planes on this beautiful wood, but for practical purposes, what's the point? This seems like the exact situation that random orbital sanders were designed for.

Other than that, I suppose a scraper plane would be my first try, if smoothing is all you're trying to accomplish.

Mike

This looks like a job for...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>The LN 4.5 with the high angle frog and the new chipbreaker. May have to scrape after too. If that fails the ros.

LV Scraper Plane

Jim in Burlington Ontario

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Re: New African Mahogany

William R. Duffield on the Cohansey

>If price were no object, this would do the job.

Another viable contender would be one of Steve Knight's smoothers.

Since I don't have deep enough pockets to allow a whole till full of goto smoothers, in my own shop I would have to use my LN 164, with a freshly honed, high bevel angle blade. If it proved insufficient in places, I would resort to a card scraper to touch up, and then some 220 and 330 grit SiC paper to even out the surface.

No Fair...To the box with you!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

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Yes, I believe it would....

Lyn J. Mangiameli

>and Frank is going to send me some off cuts to know for sure. I kind of suspect the LV or LN LA Jack set up with a 63-64 effective cutting angle might handle it, or a Knight Coffin Smoother at 63 degrees, or the Mujingfang at 63 degrees. But with that length, I'd be apt to start with the LV Jack.

ROS--Bah, Humbug! (and I have three full size and three small versions of them)

If the results are interesting, I'll file a report.

Re: New African Mahogany Thread

R.J.Whelan

>Frank ... I use this material fairly often and most of the time my C&W smoother works well - I have found that when it doesn't work, card scrapers won't work either.

I must admit when the planes won't work I start with a ROS and 80 grit and then switch to hand sanding 100---150---220---320---?

- rj -