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Thanks Wayne Anderson!

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Thanks Wayne Anderson!

#1

Thanks Wayne Anderson!

Dean Lapinel

>Sometimes I regret forgetting to say thank you or paying a compliment when it is due. Yesterday I was reminded that both were overdue to Wayne Anderson.

I have owned and used one of his min-chariots for about a year. Of course it is beautiful and I have posted a picture in the past. What I need to mention is that though I own many high quality tools I tend to find any excuse to use the mini for any purpose possible. That lil� plane fits my hand and the weight and balance are just perfect. It works on all woods and is easy to maneuver for fine planning. The plane has never �clogged up� and while it reveals my lack of responsibility, I have never had to sharpen or even move the blade. I use it hard and often and it still cuts like new. I think it has an A2 cryo on it.

Thanks Wayne for giving me something that I can always reach for knowing that it will perform flawlessly.

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wayne anderson

>Dean,

Thank you very much. Good to hear back from customers. Often, I find that the customer puts the plane on a shelf for display and doesn't use it like it's intended. Keep on using it, and eventually you may even have to sharpen it. ;^) IIRC, this is your plane, (the one in the foreground). -wayne


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#4

Nope!

Dean Lapinel

>You've already done more interesting stuff Scott. AND...you finished your Miller plane and own a 46 that will have Jim's blades...Who sucks??

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#5

I checked my dictionary

vlparisian - Houston

>and found this same picture under Tool Porn. :>)

Nice set there.

Victor - Houston

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#6

Doh!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>You got me there! I received my Millers blades from Jim yesterday. I couldn't wait, so I slapped a blade in it a pulled it's first shaving from it. Tonight I'll start flattening the backs and sharpening them. Need to make a blade box too. Have to get some broccoli so I'll have a rubber band to hold the box together.

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#7

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Dean Lapinel

>"Have to get some broccoli so I'll have a rubber band to hold the box together"

Love it. I'm going to steal that line and...without your permission! :)

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#8

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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Tonight I'll start flattening the backs and sharpening them.

Scott, are you kidding? Seems to me that Jim would have them tuned to their optimum performance already. Do let us know for sure tho.

Congrats on getting some cutters for you Millers Pattern, and enjoy using it.

T.O.

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#9

Hey Todd...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>They just need a very minor touch-up. It's more me being anal and wanting to get the heat-treating residue off of them. I want them to shine like the plane does.

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#10

Hey Scott...

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>I fiqured it had to be something of that nature as I have personally met Jim, and I can tell you he is quite meticulous about his work and his sharpening, so I was some kind of surprised to hear you say they needed flattening.

T.O.

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#11

Jim is

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>a function over form sort of guy. I am very careful to work near the cutting edge and rarely stray beyond about 1/8". Some people like them dark and the heat treating residue is kinda like gun blueing. Others like them to shine like surgical instruments. I cover it in my instructions. It is pretty easy to shine them up and I will admit that they look pretty good when they sparkle in the sun.

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#12

Wow...

Andrew Lunn

>Wow...I think...yep. I just blew out a retina. Beautiful planes. Truly. So Wayne, do you do your own casting, or is that something you have done elsewhere? If you have it done elsewhere, do you make your own patterns, or is that part of what the foundry does for you, per your specs? Exquisite work.

Andrew

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#13

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wayne anderson

>I don't use any castings. I make lever caps and such out of bar stock. Too many variations of shapes and sizes to employ cookie-cutter high production techniques like castings, water-jetting, etc.

I prefer starting each project with a clean sheet of paper and a pile of raw materials. Once I've made a plane, any subsequent copies of the same plane are (more or less) just a technical exersize.

That said...I'm currently working on a set of five nearly-identical shoulder planes. ;^) Hey...my worst day working for myself in my shop is still better than my best day I had ever had working for someone else.

-wayne

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#14

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Andrew Lunn

>Ahhh, ok. That explains it. Sure, I knew you wouldn't need a "cookie cutter" method for parts; i more thought you had a way to cast just one or two of something. Well that's really interesting. So do you mill parts like lever caps close and then finish them with hand tools? Or is everything just flat out done with hand tools? Or sometimes one and sometimes the other? Either way, that is very special stuff.

Sitting down with a pencil and paper is a really free feeling, isn't it. Not unlike the feeling of working for oneself!

Andrew (whose retina is now intact, but just barely)

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