I am offered one, hardly used, at a nice price.
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I am offered one, hardly used, at a nice price.
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If the price is right, worry about the usefulness later.
Dan
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It makes pretty curly shavings, but otherwise is not that useful. It is meant for people who machine their wood to remove tablesaw marks, etc. If you are mostly handtools then it really is not needed.Originally Posted by Gene Davis
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I'm not so sure about your observation there. I see the tool as something you would need to square up an edge if you don't have a jointer fence or your edge planing skills are not perfect (in terms of getting the edge perpendicular to the face).
What the heck, it sells for just over a $100 so if the offer is single figure just get it and as per Dan, worry about the usefulness later.
"If you have all your fingers, you can convert to Metric"
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My edge plane is the Stanley 95. It doesn't see use. It may someday, but for the larger things my jointer or even a #6 does a fine job.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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If you do lots of edge banding, or laminations it has no equal among handplanes.
If those are rare procedures in your shop, you'll have a nice clean tool at resale time.
I use a little block plane made by our very own Steve Voigt for this purpose
and it does other things as well. An edge plane is, well - only for edges.
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I see your point about it being a nice tool for edge banding, in fact that might be the single best use for it, but I am confounded by the idea of using for laminations. Can you elaborate on that aspect Jim?
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For gluing panels, I prefer to gang up two boards, for edge boards I'm not sure I need it to be at 90.00000 degrees. If it is a table edge, who cares if it is 90 point something? the edges will be eased. If it is joinery (other than a panel) I usually cut a tounge or maybe the whole board goes in a dado/groove.
I have a 95 and really hardly ever justify using it, and I am no plane ninja.
Pedro.
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The edge plane is one of those speciality tools that gets little use, and generally one can and does find a work-around .. it is not an indispensible tool at all. However, it is really useful when the time comes - something like the side rabbet plane. At that point you are glad to have it.
I find use for the edge plane when squaring thin edges on an assembled box or drawer, and jointing thin boards, (either getting the edges square or creating a spring). It is not always easy or convenient to match plane square thin panel edges as the wood tends to cup.
I have a few(!) of them. Many years ago I purchased the LN right-and-left set. LV only offered a right-handed plane at the time and so were not in the equation. The LN set have worked well and been excellent users over the years. In recent years I acquired 2 of the LV edge planes - the Anniversary version and the miniature. That little miniature is no toy. The full size version, in stainless steel, uses a wheel adjuster and this is easier than the LN/Stanley design that uses a trigger.
As long as you do not expect to use the plane often, and therefore do not determine its value that way, then it is a useful plane for the collection.
Regards from Perth
Derek
Last edited by Derek Cohen; 06-19-2015 at 9:15 PM.
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You have to wonder why Stanley didn't name it a #90 instead.
"If you have all your fingers, you can convert to Metric"
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They may not have had sharp engineers to relate it to the angle.
They also already had a few other planes with a designation of #90. One a large rabbet plane with wood wrapped in metal and the other a shoulder plane.
Later they also made a #90a & a #90j for five years.
Maybe one more would have been fun.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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I concur with Derek. I find it most useful for jointing thinner boards/smaller projects.
Maurice
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Thanks for all the comments. I am passing on this, as it is being offered at somewhere near $50, and it is not worth that much to me.
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So, is it a left, or right hand? And if you're passing on it, to quote Animal House..."mind if we dance wif yo date"?
Maurice
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They're useful for squaring box bottoms, but I only use mine occasionally.
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