Hail, fellow atavists: Haven't hung out here in a while but wanted to post pix of a new infill that I've entered in the "Design in Wood" competition at this year's Del Mar fair - actually, the San Diego County Fair, running through the end of June and well worth seeing for anyone who spends his or her days knee deep in sawdust.
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Here are the details:
- Honduran rosewood infill with a hand-rubbed Tried and True Danish Oil finish, topped with Myland wax and rubbed to a high sheen.
- Mild steel sides dovetailed and pinned to 0-1 tool steel base, all 1/4 inch thick.
- A-2 tool steel iron, 1/4 inch thick, beveled at 30 degrees plus microbevel and pitched at 45 degrees
- True cyma curve from the tip of the crown to the point where a 1inch arc rises to touch the back of the iron, with the radii of the two arcs in the cyma curve in the proportions of a golden rectangle.
This is one of my "shorebird" planes - so-called because the crown resembles the head and bill of the many shorebirds my wife and I see Sunday afternoons on the beach in Shell Beach, CA, half an hour north of home in Santa Maria.
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