another wood homemade jointer
Andrew F in Australia
>Hi All,
Following on from Crocodile Dundee, "That's not a knife, **this** is a knife," I thought I'd put together a few images of a plane I've had to cobble together to get a job done.
Note that it's meant to be a working plane, not a showpiece, so I haven't worried too much about cleaning up the chisel marks.
This is the plane, up against a No4 for comparison
I modelled it against a 30" Sandusky jointer that I have, but this thing needs to have a 60 degree pitch
All that was needed to build this thing were a few old chisels, a plane and machinery as required. Due to my haste to get this thing built (about 7 hours go to whoa) I didn't take a lot of photos, but here's some escapement details (copied off the Sandusky plane) and the actual layout marks used to set the mortised escapement, showing angles of wedge, etc... (once again, pilfered from the Sandusky.) Note the staining from perspiration. This is why some eucalypts are called 'oak' I think this one's blackbutt, but the colour this turns is the same as Oak, and the grain pattern is slightly similar, leading the early settlers to call these timbers 'oak', most commonly, tassie oak. As a final photo, notice how a correctly sized drill bit takes a lot of the grunt work out of cutting shapes. THe handle was pared/carved to final shape with a chisel. This handle took about 15 minute to get to the final state, far quicker and neater than setting up a trimmer to do the job Trust that you may find something useful in this post. Cheers, Andrew
It needs this pitch for a job where the client supplied their timber - fiddleback Australian Red Cedar (all air dried by a hobbyist, who had a sticker out of place, allowing both ends to be 1/2" lower than the middle. The job needs to be done by hand as setting up a wood wizz or similar will cause a significant loss in thickness.)
It does plane the fiddleback very well without tearout (see photos) and will allow me to flatten the thing.
The escapement's a little narrow (it's a 3" blade) and might need a bit of rework. I nicked the mouth on this one while I was cutting in the relief angles at the bottom of the abutments, so it may need a replacement mouth to be cut in at a later date.
