Plow Plane & Wenzloff Saws at LV

Re: Plow Plane

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Where are the set screws?

It's a pretty little thing.

Can It Be Used Left-Handed?

Patrick Gibbons, Houston, TX

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Doesn't look like it, as designed

Denis Ch�nard, Orl�ans, Ont.

>If you check the instructions on LV's site, the depth stop apparatus gets in the way. but you could remove it and clamp a piece of wood on the other side to act as a stop. Workable, but less elegant...

DC

Re: Can It Be Used Left-Handed?

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>In my - limited - experience, not too many fenced metal planes can be used with any elegance left-handed. I count in this experience the Nos. 78 and 45. I've gotten used to pretending to be right-handed for these planes.

Side note to Rob Lee: I'll be happy to serve as a test subject, though, if you need a left-handed test group to see how it works for us...

Me too, Me too, Me too........... NM

Dave Anderson Chester, NH

>NM

Re: Can It Be Used Left-Handed?

Norman (Ottawa, Ont.)

>I agree Bill!

Another left-hander here.

The fenced planes can be a challenge,

so I've also learned to adapt as best I can.

Norman

Re: Can It Be Used Left-Handed?

Rob Lee

>Hi Bill -

Ok - we do have some sinister stuff coming, we'll take you up on that.... :)

The "Large" plow/molding plane (farther down the queue) will have a reversible fence, nickers, and depth stops that mount either side of the body...

Currently in development/modelling are the skew rabbets...

Cheers -

Rob

Re: Can It Be Used Left-Handed?

Robert Henderson

>Ditto

Dang! I was just teasin'

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>but, yeah, I'll spend some time drooling on LV stuff and offering feedback...

Interesting looking plow

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>It makes me think that someone at Lee Valley once saw a Record 050C and took off from there - though the handle looks way more comfortable and usable, and the shapes are more graceful in my opinion than the Record's.

Re: Can It Be Used Left-Handed?

Steve Hamlin

>Ahah! Should have known the House of Innovation would have it in hand - such a glaring shortcoming of old metal ploughs. Will the cutters be nice and chunkie?

Must plough something back into the savings account in readiness.

Cheers

Steve

Re: but I have two left hands :)

Norman (Ottawa, Ont.)

>

Test Subject? I'm a great test subject!

Patrick Gibbons, Left Out, TX

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Re: Can It Be Used Left-Handed?

VTAndy4

>Thank you for considering us (southpaws).

-Andy

Can you imagine some other place?

Bruce, a MN Galoot

>Where someone says, "why don't they make it like this? and someone like Rob Lee or Wayne Anderson or Mike W says, "hold on, be right back!"

Bruce

Re: Can It Be Used Left-Handed?

paul womack

>such a glaring shortcoming of old metal ploughs.

Actually, AFAIK ALL original fenced plane were right handed, as well as unfenced, but "handed" moulding planes.

Of course, everyone back then was right handed, wether they wanted to be or not...

BugBear

Re: Can It Be Used Left-Handed?

Steve Hamlin

>'...ALL original fenced plane were right handed, as well as unfenced, but "handed" moulding planes...'

This adds a stock selection requirement that the grain run appropriately for right handed use - not always possible. Not a problem if grooving for joinery of course, but a pity to have to use a second tool (router, scraper/scratch) to clean up because the plane points the wrong way.

Re: Can It Be Used Left-Handed?

paul womack

>'...ALL original fenced plane were right handed, as well as unfenced, but "handed" moulding planes...'

This adds a stock selection requirement that the grain run appropriately for right handed use - not always possible. Not a problem if grooving for joinery of course, but a pity to have to use a second tool (router, scraper/scratch) to clean up because the plane points the wrong way.

I ain't defending it, I'm just sayin' it!!

BugBear

Re: Can It Be Used Left-Handed?

Steve Hamlin

>Oo, appreciate that - but even just pointing it out is good - has got me thinking more carefully about stock selection.

Cheers

Tool handedness

Bill Lowrance in Geneva

>This thread tempts me to ask: What kinds of tools are best made in L-/R-handed versions, other than some planes, some marking knives, and tools such as skew chisels that are ambi-handy even though they are asymmetrical?

(Bench-vise placement is another "handed" issue. I assume that lefthanders early along get used to things like cranking eggbeater drills with their right hands and don't notice, although I think a few drills have been made to be convertible. But then there's that vexed issue of which way measuring tapes read...)

I'm grateful that Auriou recognizes that many creative people are left-handed and makes a number of its rasps for both persuasions.

Re: Tool handedness

Robert Henderson

>For the most part I've adapted.

Scissors drive me nuts as do tin snips becasue I have to lean over at an awkward angle to see the cut line. Plus they wear blisters on my thumb really quickly.

I can't think of any problematic hand tools except those kinds discussed above. Most hand tools are bilaterally symetrical.

Oddly enough I have no problem with my circular saw.

Drill press seems perfectly natural lowering the quill with my right hand.

Re: but I have two left hands :)

kees

>you need a third hand

http://www.robotstore.com/store/product.asp?pid=541&catid=1626

Re: Tool handedness

Norman (Ottawa, Ont.)

>Bill,

This has always been a vexing issue for we left-handers.

I've had problems with scissors and other small tools and machinery and adapted also.

It's not just tools, most woodworking benches on the market are oriented for right-handed use. I've had to modify a couple of mine and also purchase a more versatile bench in one case to get around this. BTW, the Veritas bench with the twin-screw vise is much more versatile than the rest of the pack for handedness.

Norman