Any 5-Barns Reports?

Group Picture on Messages Board

Jim Shaver Oakville, Ont.

Re: Group Picture on Messages Board

Robert Tarr


>A great time was had by all! Plenty of turning and lots of hand planes being used. The Grumbine family was again (as usual) wonderful hosts and prepared a wonderful spread. Plenty of friends (new and old) and tool talk. Bill even got in on the plane action.

I will post pictures as soon as I get them uploaded.

Robert

P.S. Thanks Bill for an excellent event

Yes, Plane-o-thon? what happened?

Dave Thompson


>Yes, I'd like to hear about the plane-o-thon contest. While I expect to hear half of the contestant had LN4.5 and the other half had #604s, I'd be pleasantly surprised to hear something like this years winner went to a user with a super tuned #3 Fulton.

Re: Plane-o-thon?

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI


>There was way to much happening at the picnic to keep track of everything. The contest was spread out through the day, with the contest board set up and people planing as they had opportunity, which I think worked better than trying to get everyone together to have a set time for the planing and one person going right after the next. However, the shop was crowded and I was working on a few other things throughout the day and did not see a whole lot of the actual planing take place. Being there was a really good time with a great group of people.

There were 16 entries in the planing contest. I imagine Lee Schierer (SP?)will be posting a better report, and I hope to ge the spread sheet from him to look it over. The winner of the contest was once again the L-N low angle jack plane, this time run by Bob Tarr (? I am pretty sure that was the name, forgive me if I am mistaken.) Second place was won by Warren from Lancaster. I am not sure what plane he was using, but think it was a Stanley #4. Bob and Warren are both great guys that I really don't mind losing to. I did not get to talk to Bob Tarr much, but there were several comments from people that he helped them out a lot with their planing, plus he had a very gloatable saw with him, an 1850's Disston purchased for $1, so hats off to Bob. I have not used the LN low angle jack but suspect that it can be adjusted similar to my LN #60-1/2R where the iron is adjusted by advancing it right to the point where it starts to protrude from the mouth and then adjusting the depth of cut by putting a bit more pressure on the lever cap. I was really pleased with the performance of my plane whcih I have elected to name "Ringer". It is an old 604-1/2 with a background of severe abuse. It has a Hock iron in it. I worked with it Wednesday night and was not getting satisfactory shavings, so I took all my sharpening stuff with me. I suspect there was some spray glue buildup on my plate glass that prevented me from getting my stones flat Wednesday evening, so Saturday I borrowed some of Mr. Grumbine's laquer thinner and cleaned the glass off carefully, flattened my stones again carefully, then ground and honed the iron in Ringer and in my 603. I moved up to the contest board with both planes, and the timer was started. I advanced the iron in Ringer until it cut some on one side, then checked the other side and made slight lateral adjustments with a brass hammer. I find I cannot get precise lateral control with the lever, where light taps with a hammer work well. I centered the plane on the edge of the board and with several passes was able to take a decent full length shaving. I retracted the iron, then again adjusted it to where I am pretty sure I was taking about the thinnest shaving I could with that plane, and in several passes was once again able to take a nice full length shaving. I was satisfied that this was probably the best shaving I could get no matter how ong I futzed around with the plane. I had two shavings measured at one spot and submitted the one that I thought was going to be thinnest. I ended up in third place. This once again ended up being ideal because I ended up getting a prize which I originally had bypassed as my first choice prize, but am really glad that I got it. I drove home with the Lie-Nielsen #102 plane spending most of the drive home in my lap, where I could occasionally pick it up and fondle it. It came with a holster and a paper that identifies it as a prize in the Woodcentral/Sawmill Creek plane contest. This plane is an object of great beauty, and will only part ways with me after being pried out of my cold dead hands. One of the first things I will do this afternoon after unloading the Neon that is packed to the brim is to sharpen the iron and relieve the bottom corners of the plane so they are not quite as sharp, and then permanently attaching the holster to my right hip. Many thanks to all the people who made the planing contest and the picnic possible. It was a great weekend.

Re: Plane-o-thon?

mikew


>Hi Moses:

"I drove home with the Lie-Nielsen #102 plane spending most of the drive home in my lap, where I could occasionally pick it up and fondle it. It came with a holster and a paper that identifies it as a prize in the Woodcentral/Sawmill Creek plane contest. This plane is an object of great beauty, and will only part ways with me after being pried out of my cold dead hands."

Ain't that the truth. I sold off a lot of planes and other tools last year. Among those which were not even a consideration to sell was my LN bronze 102. It is a jewel and probably one of a couple planes I use most often.

Congrats on winning yours!

Take care, Mike

Re: Yes, Plane-o-thon? what happened?

Warren in Lancaster, PA


>I came in second in the contest. We were each given five minutes to prepare the board, make shavings and pick one to submit. My shaving was tied with Robert Tarr in the point system, which gave points for thinness and length. Moses was only a few points behind. There was a run-off in which we were supposed to make just a single shaving and Bob had a better score than mine. The scores for the run-off were not as good as the three or four top scores in the original contest, so Moses was very much in the mix. In retrospect, I would have liked another five minute period in the run-off to take a few practice runs and adjust the plane.

Lee Schierer did a nice job of judging with some help from his family. I thought his rules were well thought out. I was also pleased with the solid bench provided by Bill Grumbine.

I used a Stanley #3 type 11 with original iron, circa 1915.

Hey Warren, CONGRATS,what was your prize?

VTAndy4

Prizes

Warren in Lancaster, PA


>Thanks, Andy. I took home a Veritas router plane. On the way home I thought maybe I should have taken the L N block plane, but after hearing how tickled Moses was with that plane, perhaps it found the best home.

Re: Yes, Plane-o-thon? what happened?

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia


>Wow Warren...great results with a plane anyone could find and afford. Your results show respectable skills:-)JR

Re: Prizes

VTAndy4


>Nice prizes!

Is someone going to post some pics of the event?

-Andy

Plane-o-thon Wood

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native Now in FL. :~(


>I'm wondering about the wood/woods/board that was used in the Plane-o-thon. did everybody use the same species? Was the shaving taken from the edge? How wide was the board?

Todd O.

Just curious

Re: Plane-o-thon Wood

Warren in Lancaster, PA


>The contestants all planed on the edge of one board. The board was 72" long 6"wide and 1 1/8" thick hard maple.

Re: Plane-o-thon Wood

Dan Donaldson


>5/4 hard maple, about 6 feet long, everyone used the same board. Shaving from one edge. They could do a clean up pass first if they wanted.