Manual for setting up the Veritas Skew Rabbet Plane - Part Two With the Grain
I am presently building two night stands. The drawer case is made of four mitred sides in quartersawn Tasmanian Oak ...
The mitres are connected with packing tape ...
.. and finish as the basic drawer case.
The drawer cases will be bow-fronted. The rear remain straight, and receive a rebate to house the case back.
This is what we are after ...
For this set up, the nicker is retracted into the body of the plane. However the blade remains a smidgeon outside the body (0.5mm) ..
I find that the shoulder wall will taper downwards if the blade is left flush with the body. The rebates above were planed this way, and the shoulder are square.
The hand grip is thumb where the front knob would be (it was removed), pushing downward, and the palm pushes the body into the work piece ..
When planing into the grain (this happens), it pays to use a cutting gauge to score the outlines of the rebate ...
It is also important to start planing at the end of the board and create a taper. This "straightens" the grain and reduces the fuzziness of the surface ...
A decent finished rebate which involved planing into the grain ..
Ready for assembly ..
Regards from Perth
Derek
