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The "it" feeling when planing.
Matt Malin
>I picked up a #5 1/2 and I think I have found the perfect plane for size and heft. It just feels like a natural extension of my hand. I have that feeling with a #2 the way if fits in my palm and the way my fingers feel when using it. Does anyone else have this experience?
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david charlesworth
>The 5 1/2 has always been a favorite of mine for the majority of my work.
David Charlesworth
www.davidcharlesworth.com
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Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida
>I like my 5�, too! There is a small group of lovers of the fat jack around here. Only second to the #6 fans.
I agree
Dan Clermont in Burnaby
>I love my LN 5 1/2 and am amazed at the whispy tearout free shavings it gives me. The heft and weight feel right for my 6'3" 230 pound frame.
Dan Clermont
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Doug Littlejohn
>I recently acquired a 5-1/2 and now with all of this praise, I'm going to have to get serious about tuning it and using it!! Sounds like my 6'1" 250 lb frame is about right to go with it.
Sherwood
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Jonathan Peck - N.Y.
>I get that it feeling when I use my Spiers panel plane. Snuggles up real comfy in my hands and the balance is juuuuust right. Not to bad to look at either:-)
regards
Jonathan
Show-off!
Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida
>What is the length, width, and weight of that beauty?
Unmitigated drive by:-)
Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia
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Jonathan Peck - N.Y.
>I don't have it here but it's a later cast Spiers and pretty much the same as a 5+1/2. If memory serves, it's 15 inches long, about 5+ pounds and has a 2+3/8" double iron. I oogled it for a short while and then it just followed me home. I use it for anything I'd use a 5+1/2 on and don't keep it on the shelf waiting for something exotic. I think the 47� pitch is a good compromise of good tear-out performance and easy effort to use.
it's no Spiers but.....
Ernie Miller *Topeka
>this came monday playrd with it last night on some narley rose wood for a differant plane I'm making fits my hands great! about a #2 1/2 SIZE
FORGOT PICTURE
Ernie Miller *Topeka
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steve knight
>this is why I make planes I get that it feeling a lot. I remember the first working infill and the first japanese plane.
I like that plane a LOT
Wiley Horne--Glendora CA
>Ernie,
Tell more, please. It's an infill coffin smoother? Any marks on it or blade? Infill looks overstuffed (flush with the metal).
Need to hear more about this.
Wiley
Well, yeah
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>Interestingly, I get that with two planes: my #6, which fits my 6'2" frame (about a 180 pound frame, the other 40 pounds are my desert survival kit, which I carry around my waist where it's convenient); and my #4 Wards Master smoother, which operates like its parts are made of fredastairium and keeps a sharp iron for an incredibly long time.
Re: personalities
Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI
>For me personally, that squarish knob on the front doesn't look all that comfortable. I would prefer a round knob, so that plane wouldn't do much for me at all. Not sure I really have a favorite plane in the shop; they are all different, and I like the nuances of each different plane. Perhaps my favorite feeling is the bite of a freshly sharpened Hock iron.
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Jim in Burlington Ontario
>I get that feeling and more with 2 planes. Both sweethearts one is a 605 that had barely a stump of a blade when I got it. Didn't flatten the bottom or anything. The other is a scrub that not only feels perfect it also smells like a old pipe smoker used it.
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Ernie Miller Topeka
>Here are the details 7" long 2 3/8" wide I think it is user made but is massive the sole of the plane is 1/2" thick steel The blade is 2" wide. it is coffin sided the back infill might be rose wood but it is three peices glued togethr to get a chunk large enough to make it The wedge is rose wood. the front is level with the top of the plane and not rose wood but do not know what it is. Speculation on my part is that either the front bun was broke and replaced with this or never was there and the maker was waiting for the right peice of wood to make it out of and glue it to the top of what is there. The poor guy was short a round tuit. There is no marking on the blade that is tapered. the throught opening is 1/6-1/8" but it works great so far blade it set at about 47� there is nothing symetrical about this looking at the bottom the tapers start at differant places on the sides. the corners loped off the wedge are at differant hights. As you can see the top of the blade has a funny shape to it. This plane fits right into my shop as it is full of great working miss fit tools. I over paid for it at $111 with shipping but wanted it so I don't care.
Looks like the one on eBay
Ted Owen, Pittsburgh
>Glad you didn't have to pay $699.95. : )
Best, Ted
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Ernie Miller Topeka
>Where is the one on Ebay? I gotta look
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William R. Duffield on the Cohansey
>I think Ted is pulling your leg with a reference to this rare gem:
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Ernie Miller *Topeka
>Friends don't do that sorta thing. I got his number just wait.
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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>That $700 plane makes the $15 one I bought missing a wedge but with a great tapered iron and chipfrightener look like a bargain.
Hee hee : )
Ted Owen, Pittsburgh
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Hey Ernie
Jonathan Peck - N.Y.
>I like that plane alot. It looks real solid, I bet it weighs a ton. I know the ole vibration damping thing has been hashed out before, but I'm liking the wooden wedge in the infill format on your plane. I'm wondering...does the wooden wedge have have some advantages over a levered blade...eh...nevermind:-)
Regards
Jonathan