Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
With a little help from my friends...
Jim Reed @ Tallahassee
>Here is the planes that my friends helped with. John sent me a set of blades to copy, Barry made the rods, Pete found the short fence and made me a great trade. At last it has made its first cut. Now I need enough playtime in the shop to figure out how it works. By the way, it is a Stanley #444 dovetail plane.
Re: With a little help from my friends...
wayne anderson
>I saw "buy it now" repro copies of the manual for this plane on eBay...just recently. If you want to learn how to use it, you might start there. -w
Very nice
Jim in Burlington On
>Yep looks more like a collector than user.
Did that
jim reed @ tallahassee
>Thanks for the tip. I ordered one about a year ago and of course I lost it. Last week I downloaded a pdf of the same thing. The Stanley instructions cover everything, but I will not be happy until I understand the *why* and *why not*. I will really not be happy until I write my own set of instructions.
But can this dog hunt?
jim reed @ tallahassee
>I am in the process of sharpening the blades and testing them out. The first is the #7. It made the cut in the picture. Since the sliding dovetails are cross grained, they are cut like dados. This plane cuts at a pleasing skew angle and throws out little shaving pieces. Kinda reminds me of using a #39. Cuts quickly and accurately. (Maybe that is due to the incredible blade set???)
WOW...
Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA
>I've always pictured these as collector planes, not users. Nice to see you brought one back to life.