Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
First hand planed board
Bob Fawcett
>This is the first time I have tried to plane rough lumber with a handplane. The lumber is 5/4 walnut about 6x38. I used my new Veritas Low Angle Jack with a high angle blade. Plenty of work, but not as hard as I had imagined.
The vise in the picture is the twin screw I built from a pair of tail vise screws I bought from Lee Valley.
Where's the mess?
Darrell in Oakville
>Bob,
Feels good, eh?
OK, so how long did it take for this first one? And are you gonna do it again?
Um, gee, I hate to pry, but where are all the shavings? When I face joint stock I make a huge mess all over and all around the bench. And I don't see winding sticks and a straightenough edge on the bench next to yer nifty jack plane... Did you put them away when you cleaned up?
Darrell
enquiring minds and all that stuff...
Re: Where's the mess?
Bob Fawcett
>I carefully cropped them out of the picture. Here is another.
Winding sticks are on my list of tools-I-need-to-make. The edge is just my carptenter square and it hangs on the ladder that is just out of the picture to the left.
Yea, I'll do it again.
It probably took me an hour or so, but I didn't keep track.
Drop the Gym Membership
Todd Stock
>Now you know why all of us hand tool types are so buff...
Re: Drop the Gym Membership
Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia
>Oh yeah Todd...we are all strong like ox and can't see squat!:-)JR
Winding sticks
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>About a year ago, there was a thread on winding sticks, and (much to Ellis' shock), a lot of us use various aluminum extrusions.
I picked up two cheap, 99-cent-counter-quality aluminum levels at garage sales ($1 and free, as I recall) and knocked out the level vials so I wouldn't confuse them with levels. One was even (poorly) anodized black for me. These not exactly historically correct, but they are straight, cheap, fast, and stable - and they work beautifully.
THAT's why!
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>So that's why I can't lose weight and have a strong resemblance to a potato in the terminal stages of decomposition. I'm not getting enough shop time. I'll just have to point out to LOML that my shop is cheaper than a gym membership and I should spend all weekend there. Trouble is, I'm not sure I can make the "cheaper than" argument very well.
Congrats...
Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
>You took the plunge! Fun aint it...
Thanks all
Bob Fawcett
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Re: Winding sticks
paul womack
>Winding sticks only have to be parallel; they don't even need to be the same height (width?) as each other, although that is usual.
In short they can be easily made by anyone with a marking gauge and a plane.
I'll grant that some of the fancy craftsman made ones you find are a little harder to make ;-)
BugBear
Re: First hand planed board
Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida
>Good show! What is the resulting cutting angle in your plane?
Re: First hand planed board
Bob Fawcett
>The bed angle is 12 degrees and the high angle blade is ground 38 degrees. This gives a 50 degree cutting angle. I have a micro bevel on the blade of 1 or 2 degrees so that would give 52 degrees + or -.
Maybe I need the Gym Membership
Bob Fawcett
>Planing apparently uses muscles I haven't used in a while. I am sore in a few places.
Anyway, I'll do this again. The results are quite pleasing. (except for the sore part)
Re: First hand planed board
Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida
>Hi Bob,
That 52� angle might be making the planing unnecessarily hard, if the wood is not prone to tear-out. Maybe another iron with a net 45� angle might make things easier with the well-behaved woods.
Just a thought.