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    Traditional Boxed Chamfer Plane BUILDS.

    Keeping each of these planes at the same state of progress is making forward progress to completion painfully slow.


    From here;



    To here;

    The locking mechanism on each box has been done. (the outer brass keeper plate will be installed later on.)

    At present; mortising out each box to form the planes escarpment. The side of the box that faces the blade bed will be reshaped later on to form the wedge abutments.






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    Last edited by Stewie Simpson; 10-20-2014 at 3:29 AM. Reason: correction

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    Sweet.

    Excellent photos.

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    Good work Stewie. For sure a lot of work but much nicer then raising new fences in the garden.

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    stewie, looks tedious!! Making all of those escapements in something like that - two different sets of mortises to clean.

    Are those jarrah? Looks good so far!

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    Thanks Kees. The LOML would much prefer I was building the new fences.

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    Hi David. Extremely tedious work. The wedges will be in Jarrah. For the rest of the plane I am using old growth Merbau. Much more difficult to come by nowadays.
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    Thanks Jim.

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    Are these multiples of the same plane or a set designed to make different sized chamfers? Also, is there a specific use case for these?
    ~ Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

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    Hi Sean. They will be 4 chamfer planes of exactly the same design.

    The box acts as a depth stop that is adjustable and can be locked in position to what ever width of chamfer you after. The cutting edge of the iron ceases to make further contact when the width of the chamfer formed matches that set on the chamfer plane.

    Here is a short video that Kees put together to demonstrate how this type of chamfer plane works. I will be using a traditional wedge to secure the cutting iron.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChCv9lj8X2M

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    Last edited by Stewie Simpson; 10-20-2014 at 8:51 PM.

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    So why 4 identical planes? To have 4 different chamfers sitting on the shelf ready to go?

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    Hi Mark. These 4 new chamfer planes will be sold. The original prototype (seen below) I am keeping for my own personal use.

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    I should make mention that the motivation to forward my work onto hand tool forums is not to generate sales.

    Its aimed at encouraging others to try and build their own traditional woodworking tools.

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    Hi,Stewie. Nice work. I bought one of those planes a few years ago,though I have no real use for it. I mostly make missing parts for mechanical antiques these days. I want to get back to making a few guitars,but there the plane sits.

    I thought it was pretty interesting,and the price($80.00,I think) wasn't too high(It seemed).

    Your work is looking very accurate. Do you have a milling machine,or just that heavy vise?

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    Thanks George. Just the vice.

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    Hi all. As you will note from the attached photo's I am still making reasonable progress on the batch of box chamfer plane builds.







    Still to complete. (in sequential order).


    Cut the tines out on the wooden wedges;
    Fit the outer brass keeper plates to the height adjuster;
    Fit the brass sole plates on the bottom of the box;
    Final shaping to the top of the plane bodies as well as complete the chamfering;
    Fit strike buttons on the back end of the plane bodies;
    Sharpen the irons up;
    Test each plane and fine tune if required;
    Apply 2 more coats of garnet shellac finish;

    and the lastly- stamp the front end of the plane bodies with a makers mark;


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    Last edited by Stewie Simpson; 11-07-2014 at 1:50 AM. Reason: revise

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