A very silly idea

Yep. You're a moron!

Adam Cherubini

>Just kidding James. Go for it.

My Dad used to do stuff like that to planes. I don't know if you have children, but my kids like that movie Toy Story. There's a kid in the movie (Sid for you Moms and Dads) who cuts the heads off some toys and sticks them on other toys in a freakish and Frankenstein-ish manner. That's what my Dad did to his tools.

Be sure to take some pictures before after and during the surgery.

Adam

You just were dying to say that to somebody,

HC Sakman

>right Adam?

Anyway, I'd go for it myself. How would you deal with the new mouth opening with corrugated sole though??? That's the question. re-facing the sole with brass??? Possibly.

I also say go for it.

Chico...

Been done

Jim in Burlington Ontario

>Seen pics posted here about using a steel body and infill. Someone made a high angle smoother out of a junk plane body. Brass sides I don't think so the minute you hit the body with a hammer it's going to shatter or crack.

Right!

Adam Cherubini, NJ

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I thought so! ;-)

HC Sakman

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I don't know

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>It seems kind of like those people who get involved in customizing a car, and, before they're done, they've replaced everything but the right rear wheel. Why not start out as some Centralian did, and mill your body out of channel stock?

Also kind of reminds me of the old saying about, "I've had to replace the handle three times and the head twice, but this is still my favorite ax!"

Well, ya see...

James Watriss

>I have no idea why this idea posessed me. It started as a vision of a number 8 cut short, with a big block of wood in it, and a thick blade from L-N or someone else like that.

Since then I've had all kinds of ideas of "I could do this to it!" A sole inlaid with strips of rosewood dovetailed into it, instead of grooves. (Or, alternating with the grooves.) A huge block reminiscent of a razee plane.

Yup, I've got a lot of good ideas. Problem is, most of em suck. At least, in the context of doing it to this old #8 body. It's old, tired, repaired, and it's cast iron. So... I'll probably find a huge chink of walnut or something like that, and use it as an exercise to learn how to shape the mouth to the blade. That;s the only thing I haven't figured out yet about plane making... how the hell do you plane makers get such tight mouths on your planes?

My Stanley Infill

Derek Cohen (in Perth Australia)

>Yeah.. I've posted this before (I'm sure everyone is getting very bored with it).

Stanley #4 base, ground out to fit Jarrah infill, bed at 55 degrees, LN blade with thick Mathieson cap iron, very fine mouth. It was more an experiment in design at the time, but it works very well as a finish smoother.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: inspiration

paul womack

>Stanley #fill 1/2

BugBear

Not a Moron...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Your just a "salt of the earth" type of person ;^).

You won't be able to DT brass sides to it. One hammer hit to the cast iron and boom!

You might want to make an overstuffed infill out of it keeping the plane body intact for the most part.

Re: A very silly idea

philip

>Now that is something that I have been thinking about doing for a few years now.... just for fun and out of curiosity.let us know how it comes out and I'll probably use this as a final push to follow in your footsteps.

Philip

Re: A very silly idea

Ted Shuck, Centennial, CO

>I made a Stanley infill from a cut-down type 17 #6 a couple of years ago. I kept the frog and adjuster, replaced the front knob with an overstuffed block of paduak and shaped another block of paduak to make an overstuffed rear infill to fit behind the frog and support the frog. The iron is a 1/8" LV A2.

The frog is fixed in position, even with some epoxy slathered on the mating surfaces before screwing it down. The rear infill butts right up against the frog and there is more epoxy between the rear infill and the frog. There is a mortise for the adjuster wheel and it is only exposed at the top. It took quite a bit of time to fit the infills, since there are no square or regular surfaces inside the body casting.

It works quite well, weighs about 6 pounds, and was my best smoother until I built a Shepherd infill last winter.

Regards,

Ted

Re: My Stanley Infill

James Watriss

>Jeezus that thing's gorgeous. Mind if I steal your handle design?

Re: My Stanley Infill

Derek Cohen (in Perth Australia)

>Cost you a couple of beers, but sure, my pleasure.

Regards from Perth

Derek