Rabbet fight . . .

Cat fight . . .

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>when she sees the prices of a LN or LV Shoulder plane. Best put on your heavy shirt. Good Luck.

Todd O.

Re: But the medium LV is a good buy!

Glenn Madsen near San Francisco

>And a very useful plane to have.

Forgiveness is easier to get than permission. Or so I've been told. My wife is a quilter. Even with a 4 year head start, I'm WAY behind in the 'discretionary spending' category.

At least she's happy.

Here's one 

Frank D. in Montreal

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Re: Rabbet fight . . .

mikew

>Rabbet planes are not "very" expensive. New shoulder planes from LN and LV are more expensive.

Rabbet planes do what they do effeciently and quickly. My personal favorite is a wooden moving filester as shown below. While it takes a few more seconds to adjust the fence than a metal Stanley #78, the skewed blade makes it worth it. I have used it for raised panels and chamfering drawer bottoms as well.

The LN rabbet block plane can be very useful as well for more than cleaning up rabbets, for such things as tuning tenons and again for raising smaller raised panels for instance. Same goes with the LN #140.

Have fun with which ever way you go.

Take care, Mike

Seriously though,

Frank D. in Montreal

>I agree with Mike. The LN rabbeting block is very handy to have. I'd get one with a nicker if I had to buy again. I think a real rabbeting plane is more useful than a shoulder plane (unless you do a lot of mortise and tenon work...I use my 60 1/2 for m&t joinery anyways, most of the time...), especially for rabbets. A moving fillester is also great to have, although it can take a little more time to find a nice one at a good price and set it up properly.

Second the woodie moving filletster

Wiley Horne

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78s are not very expensive on eBay

Bill Houghton, garage sales in Sebastopol, CA

>I regularly see still-in-box 78s for decent prices. Granted, they're late model, so perhaps not the very best - but my made-in-England 78 has been a good tool.

Rabbit season!...Duck season!...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA

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Re: Here's one

paul womack

>Interesting plane stop, Frank.

Have you seen (*)McKinley's in the Workbench book?

BugBear

(*) spelling may be off

Re: Here's one

Mark Nowicki

>He looks too happy to be fighting.

Mark

Re: Here's one

Frank D. in Montreal

>That's what I said till I tried to take the plane away...

Re: Here's one

Frank D. in Montreal

>No I haven't bugbear,

I've never had the chance to take a look at that book. I've made a better one since I took that pic...basically a wider board . That's almost all I ever use to hold my boards for edge jointing, unless they are humungus...it holds quite positively and it takes no time to flip a board around. I make specialized ones out of plywood or other material to hold odd-shaped pieces for planing too. No vises on my bench...

Oh My Gosh

Ron in Kokomo

>There is NO COMPARISON The Wooden Moving Filister is a much better choice. Come to my house and you can have my 78. I have never found it an acceptable tool for good woodworking.

Re: Here's one

paul womack

>In the McKinley design, the opening is wider, and the wedge has a "lip" that catches the front end of the board.

Hence the action of pushing the board forward pushes the wedge into the opening, so it was (ta-da!) self tightening.

BugBear

Thanks bb, great tip!

Frank D. in Montreal

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Re: diagram to help 

paul womack

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