I'm gonna make my first plane

Couple thoughts

Jim in Burlington On

>Certainly you can saw the blank or make it from 3 pieces of timber. Blade choices are harder. Depending on how thrifty you are or want to be there's alot of choice out there. Hock comes ready to go for about 50 bucks. LV sells alot of blades for all their different planes. The scrub HCS blade is 18 bucks. Their Hong Kong style wooden planes have a HSS blade that is only 6 bucks. The first few planes I made wern't anything to write home about but woods cheap and it's great fun IMO.

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=46320&cat=1,41182,46334

One more link I forgot

Jim in Burlington On

>http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=46322&cat=1,41182,46334

Re: I'm gonna make my first plane *LINK*

DickL

>I don't see a problem using a hand saw to make your plane. Another source for blades, if you want a really good one, is David Finck, the author of "Making and Mastering Wood Planes'.

Regards,

Dick


David's Web Site

Re: I'm gonna make my first plane

Thomas S Stockton

>Years ago I took a summer class at coolege of the Redwoods where Krenov taught we used block plane irons and made the chip breakers. Works well and is cheap. Almost everybody that makes this style plane finds that there second try at it is much better than the first so don't sweat it to much build the plane and then plan the next one. The nice thing about these planes is if you buy a nice iron and the plane doesn't work well you can build another one around that iron and they are fun to make.

All thayt said when Ron Hock would show up at the school those that had extra money would be more than willing to buy his blades.

Tom

Re: I'm gonna make my first plane *LINK*

Bill Kay

>I hope links to other forums are permissible here.

I have been following this discussion, on another site, that explains the process in detail. Hope this helps. I'm going to give it a try.

Regards,


Making Hand Planes