Wooden Tote for a #113

A Little Work with the Fret Saw 

Mike Fitterling

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A Little Chisel Work

Mike Fitterling

>I chopped out a recess to accomodate the back of the frog casting, I also chucked up a small sanding drum on the drill press and hollowed out the underside to accomodate the iron adjusting wheel.

Final Touches

Mike Fitterling

>A bit of handsanding, a touch of oil, and some screws through the frog holes, and it is done. I thought about drilling a hole through the tote and inserting a dowel where the screws will pass to give some cross-grain strength to the attachment, but the fellow who had done his said he had no problem with screws into the end grain of the tote, so I let it be. If they fail, I can always go back and do the dowel trick.

New and Old

Mike Fitterling

>Here's the plane with its new tote and a picture of the original tote behind it. It was a fun project and came out decent for an hour's work.

Cheers,

Mike

An hours work ?!?

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Man, that would have taken me a lot longer!

It looks real nice Mike, and probably more warm and nicer to hold than the iron one.

Nice driveby there, Mike

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Not only do you casually mention having a circular plane, but you've got parents finding gems like that?

Time for a round table, it looks like.

HeeHee

Mike Fitterling

>You caught that, did you? :)

They paid too much for it considering the condition, but it is serviceable now and I do appreciate them looking out for me. I still need to "uncurl" those arm attachments; the bottom of the back arm hits the sole when flexed in one direction very far. It looks like the pins are just peened in so that should not be too hard to do.

The irony of this all is that two days before, I needed this exact plane when I was smoothing long curvatures in some jatoba rails for a head and footboard I am making. I used my flexible "vixen" file and a #80 to smooth out the bandsaw marks, but this plane would have been more fun and quicker.

Cheers,

Mike

Tiiming - you too?

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>It always seems like I get some new to me tool, or like Fine WW or (more often) Fine Homebuilding publishes an article, right after I really could have used the tool/information for something I'm working on. How do the fates know, and why do they pick on me, of all people?