Side rabbet plane

Re: Side rabbet plane

paul womack

>Joel has an expansive dissertation.

Museum of Woodworking tools

BugBear

Re: Side rabbet plane

Mark Harrison -- in Sydney, Australia

>I use mine more than I thought I would when I bought them. Sure beats using a chisel.

I have a Stanley 98 and 99. They don't have the fence which I think would be a useful thing to have but you can get by without it.

The Preston and Record types are supposed to be good as well. These are the ones with the cross over blades. They usually come with with a fence. For some reason they rarely seem to get lost.

Cannot live without

Jim Reed @Tallahassee

>Smoothes off any groove, widens any groove. Makes the best plate groove ever--plow a 1/8" groove, undercut the back side and overcut the front side. Depth stop unnecessary & gets in the way.

Re: Side rabbet plane

Todd Stock

>I have a 79 that I've used for years, as well as a recently purchased LN 98/99 set. The 79 is OK, but I def prefer separate tools. Very useful tool for fine fitting jobs.

Bill you need one...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>The 79 is a great little plane. So are the 98/99's.

One thing I like about the 79 is its fence (or depth stop). You can make different angles out of wood or metal to clean/adjust sliding dovetails and weired angle dados and rabbets. You can't easly do this with the 98/99 pair. I find the depth stops very valued on these tools.

As normal the English made 79 are not as well made as the older ones.

Hunting season eh?

Once you have one ...

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>... you cannot imagine how you got along without it.

No other plane (outside the #98/99 combination) will widen or smooth a dado (whether made by hand or machine).

When asked to short list a few hand tools, the #79 is always there. A must have.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: Side rabbet plane

Alan Hamilton

>Bill,

I agree with the rest: it's a tool you might wonder if you really would use it, but after you get one you can't imagine doing anything without it. Spring for the #79. The #9?s are very nice, a pleasure to use--or even just to hold. But my old trustworthy works just fine--and the extra dollars are a pleasure to hold too.

Alan

Thanks all

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>The one I was watching on eBay closed at $68, a bit past the current tool budget. I guess I'll keep hoping for a find when we go rust hunting (well...I go rust hunting. LOML is hunting for other things when we go out).