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steve knight

>looks nice. how does the screwcap work? I have debated on using them but right now I don't have anyone to make them for me.

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Matti Kuikka

>Very informative "story"! Even I understood almost all with my poor deutsch because of the fine sequence of pictures. It seems to me that you omitted the dados in the drawings. Did you leave the nails in place instead or do you trust your glue to hold?

How much does the blade weight, where did you get the metal and how big part of the blade making did you do yourself. Where did you get the screwcap. Have you thought or tried those japanese blades you can get from Dick at least.

I have so many questions because ordering blades for ex. from USA to Finland is not practical because of freight and duty costs but inside EU it's different so any advice is apprecieted. If you hesitate to advertise your suppliers you can always e-mail me.

Matti Kuikka

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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>Very nice looking plane Rolf, and I can see that it works as well as it looks. Followed along with the construction on your site, and was wondering what the fix was for the probelem you had with the blade not being square to the side.

I've never worked with Ipe, but I hear tell that it is very difficult to work with. What did you use for glue?

We've now seen two outstanding examples of homemade planes in the past few days, one in metal and now one in wood. Thanks for sharing this latest effort with us.

Todd O.

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Rolf Schmid

>The lever cap works very well.

I omitted the dados, but inserted two "screws" to have the possibility to attache later a mouthpeace like in Steve�s planes.

The next wooden plane will be high angle smoother with an adjustable frontpeace.

I removed the nails, they were only for aligning the parts, which were glued with white glue.

The blade bed was not square to the sides, so the cutting edge of the iron was not parallel with the sole. I gladly noticed this at the testing assembly before glueing. So I simply planed the bed square to the sides.

Milling heattreatment and grinding of the blade was made by professionals. If you are interested in a blade , I am making at the moment some blades of 6mm A2 steel.....

The levercap was also manufactured by an metal shop. it might not be difficult to make one yourself of brass, I can send you the drawing if your are interested.

With the the levercap konstruktion it is easy to attache a tapered japanese blade to a plane (i did it at the japanese "infill")

regards

Rolf

Say, Rolf

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>If you're going to make more planes why don't you purpousely make a large skewed jointer to see if you can tame that tear-out problem.

Keep up the good work.

Todd O.

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steve knight

>myself I would not waste time on an ajustable mouth. a 60 degree plane is not very picy about mouth size.

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Cameron Miller

>I tend to agree with Steve - not such a big factor on a 60 degree bedding angle.