Latest project infill planes

Re: Latest project infill planes

Dan Clermont in Burnaby

>Hi Keith

I live in Windy, wet Burnaby.

I'd really like to try one sometime if you truly are serious

Very nice work by the way! Are you selling them off?

Cheers

Dan Clermont

Re: Latest project infill planes

Norman (Ottawa, Ont.)

>Nice work Keith!

What do you plan to do with the planes?

They appear to be identical to each other? are they all the same as far as configuration,, bedding angle?

Norman

Beautiful work! Questions...

Denis Ch�nard, Orl�ans, Ont.

>Where did you source your adjuster? And did you make the cap and screw yourself?

Again, beautiful work...

DC

HOLY SHIRT!!

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Excuse me for not knowing, but I didn't know you was a toolmaker. Dem is's sum nice lookin' wons too!

How long you been making planes?

How many peso's does one hombre need to sling your way to get one?

Do you make anything othwer than the A5?

Do you make them per order only, or make them than sell them?

I could ask a dozen more questions, but I'll leave some for others.

I live in hot, humid Florida and would be willing to be a beta tester for you in those weather conditions. ;~)

Todd O.

Re: Latest project infill planes - stupid question

Joel

>Very nice work. Stupid question - why did you call the model A5's? (they don't look at all like Norris A5's or their clones.) - more like A13's

Re: Latest project infill planes - stupid question

Keith Turner

>Hi,

No it's me who's stupid, they are A13's not A5's ,sorry about that.

See if I can answer some of the questions

I intend to sell 4 of the planes

They are all the same and bedded at 50 degrees

I made all the adjuster, the caps and the screws ( I was going to include a pic of some spare ones I made but my camera does not seem to want to play anymore)

I am not a tool maker,(I'm a machinist by trade) but have made a few others in the past

(14 1/2 inch panel , A31, mitre plane, 1 1/2 inch shoulder plane and a couple more A13's)

I am asking $1000 canadian

And these have taken such a long time to make , I am going to do a little woodworking for a while

Hope this answers all of the questions

Thanks

Keith

Re: Latest project infill planes - stupid question

Jim Shaver Oakville, Ont.

>Hi Keith,

I like your work and I am sure you will do well.

I hope to see them on the classified pages here...

Take care,

Jim

Agreed, fine work. Tell me this:

woodburnbob

>Keith, very nice and consistent work. I'm pretty curious about how different makers go about forming the side profile, and in your case chamfering the contour.

As a machinist, I guess you had a number of choices. Actually, I speculate sometimes that the 19th century approach may have included four-bar linkage mechanisms to control the path of the stock or the tool. But that's beside the point.

Your choices with the profile/contour might have been: 1)bandsaw (to a line or with a template), 2) CAD-CAM-CNC, 3) milling freehand to a line with a highly coordinated x and y axis reflexes and a fine multitasking brain, 4) stamp out with die and punch press (huge), or 5) what have I left out. Oh! Cold chisel, hack saw and files.

Then, as I say I wonder the same things about the chamfering.

Hope you, and perhaps others, might mention the details and choices.

Re: Agreed, fine work. Tell me this:

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>I'm with you Bob, that champer alone the upper sides always kills me. It looks sooooooooooo purdy. My guess is that today it's done by machine, but would like to know for sure how it was done in days of yore.

T.O.

Nicholson chamfer file

Bill Houghton, retired fun in Sebastopol, CA

>and if you believe that, I've got this bridge...

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Joel

>It was always done with files and practice - if you don't believe me as Konrad Sauer. Some of the detainling on my old planes is spectactular

This is True

Gary B. in Central NY

>Konrad Sauer told me this himself, as I was holding one of his A2 jointer plane in Almonte, (yes, this is my best gloat to date, as I'll probably never own one.)

Re: Agreed, fine work. Tell me this:

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>I find that working metal is easier than working wood because you cannot remove material nearly as fast in metal (by hand, that is). Also, metal is brighter, so the lines show up better. I think it is easier to see when a chamfer is off a little bit and correct it in metal than wood. I am not trying to negate the skill level shown here, just saying that I think it is not impossible to achieve if that is your goal.

I don't see the big deal

Frank D. in Montreal

>After seeing what some carvers can do, as well as the shapes that woodworkers can achieve by hand (take a look at Mike W's saw handles for instance), a simple polished chamfer on metal seems like no impossible feat, even if it does take skill.

Sorry

Frank D. in Montreal

>didn't mean to come off as unduly negative...I do think Kieth's planes are very impressive.

Re: Beautiful work! Questions...

Keith Turner

>I managed to get the camera working, so here is a shot of the adjusters and lever cap (the cap has not been finished off yet)

Hope this helps

Keith

Re: Agreed, fine work. Tell me this:

Keith Turner

>I can tell you how I form the sides

Firstly I mill the soles,the dovetails and the mouth opening (undersize), then transfer the dovetails into the brass plate sides that have been pop riveted together, then mill the side dovetails.

I have a template of the sides that I photocopy and glue onto the sides ,aligning the dovetails, I use this as a guide to bandsaw the sides and drill the holes for the retaining rivets . I will now finish the contour(while still pop riveted) with various shaped files.

With the shaping finished I use Hermaphrodite(odd leg) calipers to scribe a line where the chamfers need to be, then using files again, file to the line.(But you will have to retouch these up after the sides have been lapped) The pop rivets are removed and the two inside side are now polished before assembly.

Hpoe this helps

Keith

Re: Agreed, fine work. Tell me this:

woodburnbob

>Clearly an enormous amount of skill and hard work: freehand bandsawing to a line and then handfiling the chamfers. My hat's off to you. Thanks for sharing the details. Since you did multiples it made me wonder if you had access to CNC cutting via plasma, waterjet, and so forth. I believe I remember the Shephard boys said they jobbed the cutting out to a volume CNC operation. To me, it's easy to think of supporting one-off multiples of an infill like yours, more than a Henry Ford assembly line of jobbed out components. But my attitude stems from opinion and preference, many infill kit fans evidently thought of Shephard as a godsend. I wish you great luck recovering a little $$$ for your inspired and hard work.