Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Record Rebate 778 plane
Jim in Burlington Ontario
>Did you add a wooden fence face or just use it as is? I have a nice piece of blackwood laying around. For those that bought LN replacement iron was it worth it. Seems like this one is from 1984 never used anyone have a say in wether or not to keep the box it's far from mint with a few small holes and a large piece of the picture gone. Thanks Jim
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Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
>I made a wooden fence for mine, but mostly I leave it off. People have sounded off here about the LN blades being a very nice addition to this plane. Mostly due to better steel (less sharpening) and it's thicker (closes up the mouth a bit) for less tearout and chatter.
Re: Record Rebate 778 plane
Christopher Fitch @ Memphis
>Give it a try Jim. It can't hurt.
:)
I don't have one on my 778. Never noticed a difference.
On the other hand, all my Record Combo planes and ploughs have them. I never noticed a difference there either.
That's not much help I know...
Re: Record Rebate 778 plane
Todd Stock
>I use a wood subfence - adds some bearing area, which never hurts. Have not tried a LN blade on the 778, but the stock blade is not all that bad.
Re: Record Rebate 778 plane
Alan Hamilton
>Jim,
I added a strip of oak on mine--in fact on the fences of all my planes that have fences. Why? I don't have a good reason: the fellow who taught me a tiny bit of what he knew--which is about all of the little I know--had wood on all his fences; I had this 1/2" stuff around; I had nothing else to do that day; and.....
Alan
Re: wooden fences
paul womack
>On most (AFAIK) of the Record planes with fences, the fences are drilled to allow the addition of a wooden fence.
Record claim that the shallow metal fence allows the plane to be used on stock supported on a flat workbench, or held in the vice; a deeper fence (as fitted to traditional wooden planes) tend to require "sticking boards" to hold the stock.
However, the used can easily add a wooden fence. Wether large or small, a wooden fence will slide much more freely than a metal fence, and the gives the user complete freedom in choice of fence depth.
I suppose lignum vitae would be the ultimate for low friction, although with Cites appendix II listing, it's getting hard to find.
BugBear
Lignum Vitae
Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida
>FWIW, and it may not be true today, but I found that there were sometimes little grab-bag collections of LV scraps and cut-offs for sale on eBay. (I, of course, bought some for iron plane fence liners) The per-board-foot cost is high, but you only need a little bit.