Yeung Chan has done it again

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Neal in San Jose

>I saw it in person on Saturday, and have to say it works as good as it looks, and feels very good in the hand.

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"RJ" Whelan

>Seems almost criminal for one person to have that much talent - his furniture is equally brilliant ... rj

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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>WOW!!! That is beyond georgeous! coarse, I'd expect nothing less from him. You say "again" has he made other tools recently?

T.O.

Nope, I only meant...

Ellis Walentine

>... that this is the latest in a long procession of singular tools. I regret that I lost two of his early marking knives in my shop fire. Irreplaceable.

Ellis

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Glenn Madsen near San Francisco

>A friend of mine, who went to the College of the Redwoods, as did Yeung Chan, has a block plane that Mr. Chan made. As nice as the LN planes are, this one has a certain flair and feel that surpasses the LN.

One thing is for certain. The slope has no bottom. There is always another beautiful tool out there...

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Dan Donaldson

>The slope may not have a bottom, but it definitely has an equivalent of the Swartzchild radius. ;-)

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ThomD

>That seems a lot more sophisticated than his earlier work. This plane looks like metalworking tools were involved unlike his eailer stuff, that while really beautiful, was more like a woodworker working out of his element, or something. When stripped of his aesthetic touch the Chan tools in production didn't look any better than many others, or more useful.

What is the idea for this tool, and why does it have a breaker, Is the breaker angle high enough to break the shaving?

That "breaker" is not a real one

HC Sakman

>Thom, c'mon. It's very elegant and sleek at the same time, which is difficult to combine both. OK, perhaps not that difficult, but it doen't happen coincidently.

The chip breaker look alike piece of metal is probably there to hold down the blade evenly, consequently facilitating the movement of the blade with Norris type adjuster. It's clearly a bevel up block plane and that metal cap has no business with any shavings.

Although it'd not be impossible to make the chip-breaker functional. How it'd perform can be another story.

Chico...

Chico...

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Paul Kierstead

>When stripped of his aesthetic touch the Chan tools in production didn't look any better than many others ...

Um, well ...

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Rob Lee

>Swartzchild, or Schwarzchild (as in Chris....).... :)

(the slope varies with the mass of your bench....)

Relatively yours -

Rob

;-)

Dan Donaldson

>

Stunning!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Thanks for sharing. Now where's my napkin...errr bib.

Hmmm Neil...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Were you schelpping around the Japan woodworker on Saturday?

I know I wanted to but couldn't make it up there. More's the pitty!

You mean this one? :-)

Manny

>I waited a few years for it, but well worth the wait!

The ergonomics fit me to a tee.

Nope

Neal in San Jose

>I went to the woodworking show in San Mateo, and Yeung was there in a school booth (don't remember the school). BTW, the show was mostly a waste of time. Seeing the plane was cool, and watching him cut out dovetails about the size of matchsticks was impressive, but the only other booth worth much time was Lee Valley.

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Manny

>It was the William Ng school booth. I guess I missed you. I was there in the morning chatting with Yeung before heading to Jay's class. Yeah, chatting with Yeung and playing in the LV booth made the trip worthwhile. Otherwise, it would have been a waste of time.

What did you get at the LV booth? I picked up one of their new plow planes.

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ThomD

>I agree completely, the plane is very beautiful, reminds me a little of Steve Knights Japanese infils.

I always thought the earlier tools looked a little fragile, and it was a hard to see how that cased set could actually do everything he needed. When he brought out his power tools book it was more understandable. Im not a hand tool snob, I dont care how it gets done.

More generally, I do think that woodworkers are easily baited with infil planes, nothing wrong with that. An infil project that gets comparatively little respect are those pen kits and, stoppers, and ball divot fixers. Its not a work of genius to put knurling on a piece of metal and stuff in some rainforest. In fact Busy Bee currently has the scissor knurlers on sale for 29 bucks. :)