LV Bullnose Plane

Re: LV Bullnose Plane

Ted Shuck, Centennial, CO

>Well, since nobody else has replied and I have used one a little...

I have one that I received as a present for Christmas. I've had it six months and have only used it about once a month, if that. It is one of my least used planes, nearly up there with my Stanley #20. But, when it is needed, and nothing else will fit in the spot, it works very well. I've used it to clean up rabbets near a corner and smooth edges on inside corners of joints where I could not reach with any other plane.

Before I received the LV plane, I used an old English gunmetal bullnose that I've always found frustrating to use. The LV plane is infinitely better.

Regards,

Ted

Re: LV Bullnose Plane

Jay Samuels

>I bought one a couple of months ago for a very specific project - I had a change in floor levels and had to install a wooden transition piece and then fit it in place, constrained by walls at both ends. The plane worked nicely, although I obviously had to use a chisel for 3/4 inch on each end. It's a nice tool, with very positive adjustments, and was ready to go out of the box. I don't see why it would not work well on more traditional uses.

Re: LV Bullnose Plane

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>Hi Jay. Was there 3/4" of chisel work after the bullnose was converted to a chisel plane? The LV has that feature does it not? JR

Re: LV Bullnose Plane

John Todd

>Like other posts, I don't use it alot, but there are times it's just the right tool for the job and I'm glad I have it. Mostly I use it for rabbets with "closed ends". With the nose removed, it's a very handy chisel plane for triming dowels flush and glue lines. Probably use it half and half with nose removed. Like all the members of LV's line of shoulder/rabbet planes, I think it's an improvement over traditional styles in ergonomics. A very nice tool.

Re: LV Bullnose Plane *LINK*

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Sir Wm put in some words about this plane some months ago, very interesting reading.

Pam


WC LV Bullnose thread

Re: LV Bullnose Plane

Jay Samuels

>Good question. Here was the issue: If you run the plane as a chisel plane without the bullnose, it wants to dig in, and of course there is tearout, especially on the end of the board where I was not working with the rising grain. If you run the plane with the bullnose all the way to the wall, eventually you end up planing a shallow concavity. So what I did was chisel away the 3/4 by the wall down to close to the finished level, so I could finish the planing strokes with the bullnose in empty space, and thus continue to plane the surface level rather than concave. Hopefully that was a somewhat intelligible description.

Re: LV Bullnose Plane

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Thanks, Pam fopr finding that. I looked for it but couldn't find it, becuase it had already been archived. Doh!

Roberto, if you search the unarchived messages for keyworks, "Bullnose" and "William", you'll find a couple more comments I made on the plane. Also, if you just search on just "bullnose", you'll find lots of other comments on the plane.

Re: LV Bullnose Plane

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>Got it. I had similar issues with my 3110 Clifton converted to chisel plane. I thought it might have been lack of practice with this configuration.JR