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Mike Hamilton

>When I read your description, I was trying to envision something to cut a groove for instrument purfling. When I saw the picture it was obvious it wasn't for curves. Perhaps it's for stringing like on the edges of legs on Pembroke tables?

Looks cool.

Regards,

Mike Hamilton

Plainfield, IN

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Looks like a quirk router blade, thus a qr. If you decide to make one, you can get the blades from Tony Murland or Andy Stephens.

Pam

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Skip in Falls Church

>It seems that it might be useful for making thin, decorative grooves around the top or bottom of boxes. Obviously it wouldn't work well at cross grain applications. I think the attraction is that it looks pretty simple to make although I might be wrong.

Skip

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Skip in Falls Church

>Thanks for a possible source of blades. If I pursue this I might check with them.

I'm assuming from the shape of the blade that the front part of the blade serves to make the mouth for the cutting edge? It's the only reason I can think of for the "C" shaped blade. I wonder if skewing the blade (and mouth) would make it nore effective?

I have a chunk of saw blade that I could make a prototype from. I know that it's both too thin and too soft as a permanent blade - but it might be interesting to try.

Skip

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Ted Shuck, Centennial, CO

>Skip,

I see you posted twice, once stating that you don't think the plane shown would be good for crossgrain work and a second time wondering what the C shaped blade was for.

The C shaped blade is meant for crossgrain work.

If you look very carefully at the photo that shows the bottom of the blade you will see that one side of the blade, the front edge of the C, has a small groove in the bottom of it that splits the edge into two nickers. This edge of the blade sits slightly lower than the back edge to allow the "nickers" to contact the surface of the wood before the back edge. The back edge of the C is a conventional blade.

So, this is like a dado plane, with the nickers and blade all made from the same piece of steel.

Ted

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Skip in Falls Church

>Ahhhhhhhh! Thanks - that makes sense! It was really hard to see the groove you were talking about - but I see it now. With that piece of information it would seem that it would be sensible to make cutters of equal width with one end for cross grain and one end for working with the grain? (Notice the question mark!) If so, should the other blade not have the piece with the nickers in front of it?

Skip

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Ted Shuck, Centennial, CO

>Skip,

I've never used one of these planes. The only one I have held in my hands had only one C shaped blade. It was not double ended like the one in the link.

What you say makes sense though. You generally don't want the nickers down there when planing long grain.

Ted

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Skip in Falls Church

>Hi Ted,

Who knows - I may never even try to make one. But it looks so easy and it might be fun to have a few different widths to do different size grooves.

Skip