poor man's panel plane

How about Christmas in Kenya project?

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>If you get his shipping address, we could send him some Christmas presents from his American woodworking buddies.

Seems to me a good packing list for such a carpenter would include:

scrub plane

#4, #5, #6

#48

I think I could dig out a plane and fix it up for such a worthwhile endeavor.

that's such a cool idea!

frank shic (walnut ck, ca)

>jim, he seriously needs to work on his collection, doesn't he? ;)

question for the veterans

frank shic (walnut ck, ca)

>alright, i attempted to do the same thing last night on a scrap of poplar and found that it was WAY harder to plane despite numerous attempts at adjusting the blade for a lighter cut. any ideas, guys?

Re: addendum

Bjenk Ellefsen

>Thanks Frank, Ill check it out. It`s all good information.

Although, I am still muy curious about how it was actually done by cabinetmakers of old.

Kenyan tool junkie

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>We could help him start a slide down the slippery slope!

if only we had a TIME machine!

frank shic (walnut ck, ca)

>i'd be the first one through to watch the english carpenter's of old in action - although i'd bring plenty of toilet paper and deodorant!!!

bwa-hahahahaha!!!

frank shic (walnut ck, ca)

>

one EXPERIMENT coming right up!

frank shic (walnut ck, ca)

>ok, i just couldn't RESIST it any longer and while i was surfing japan woodworker's website this morning, i purchased the $69 kiwa kana right skewed rabbet plane. i intend on clamping a piece of plywood to the left side to act as a temporary fence and see if i get better results with this on the hardwoods.

Re: addendum

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>There were several different tools, and tool sets used at different times and in different traditions. John Whelan's book, The Wooden Plane, explains many of the alternatives. In the U.S., a simple tool was the Badger Plane . It had a skewed blade, and a nicker and a rabbet on one side for cutting the step. More complicated was the panel raising plane. The fanciest of these had a skewed blade held in a sprung position and a depth stop and fence. The edge was complicated, so that in one pass it could cut the step at the edge of the field (often with the help of a nicker for a smoother cut), leave the tongue untapered, and cut either a flat, simply curved, ogee or a much more complicated slope.

Re: bwa-hahahahaha!!!

Greg B�tit, Crown Point NY

>That's a great idea! I don't have an address for the woodworker, but I'll check with my daughter/son-in-law to make sure it's OK to use their address. My only concern there is that it's an APO address, he's an Army doctor.

Greg