01-06-2011, 06:13 PM
Hi Folks,
I´m so lucky to have traded with Ron! I´ve got a plane kit from him, it´s the small smoother "J-style".
The first thing I´ve to say is, that the quality which Ron makes is not to beat! Thank you, Ron! All parts are perfectly done, it´s apure joy to work with them.
After I received the kit, I decided to make a test run on the infills with a turning blank of Walnut. The plane shall get infills of Olive wood, but I´ve only one piece of wonderfully figured Olive wood, what allows only one attempt. So I thought it would be a good idea to make a test run with another wood to get a little experiance.
I bandsawed the blank and planed the rabbets. Sadly I´ve no pictures from that 1st step
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Then I sawed the blanks by hand to the proper angles and cleaned the surfaces with the LV DX 60. This block plane did a terriffic job! The cleaning of the bed on the rear infill has to be done very properly and I was happy to have the LV block plane. It worked perfectly!
The next steps were documented
The following pics shows the inserted blanks.
The next step was to round the top slighly.
Now you will see why the layout of the rear infill looked a little weird. I intended to make a protection for the hand to make sure that the hand will not have contact with the sharp edges of the blade while planing.
Then it was time to fit the ends of the infills. At first I sawed the rough contour.
Then the front and rear contours wer sanded on the belt sander.
After that I chamfered the edges on the top of the infills to prepare the rounding of them. The LV Bullnose Plane did a terrific job on this!
Then it was time to round the edges by filing and sanding.
Then the infills were sanded to prepare the finish.
After that they got a coat of BLO.
It was just one coat of BLO so long. The finish will be improved after the BLO is dried. That being said, I assembled the plane to get an impression
That´s the progress so far. I do want to finish those walnut infills perfectly since I don´t know if the Olive wood infills will succeed.
The hand protection is a smaller benefit than I thought, because due to the little depth of the plane, the hand doesn´t lay flat on the top of the rear infill. So I´m not sure if the Olive infill will get this feature. Probably not.
Thanks for looking!
Regards
Klaus
I´m so lucky to have traded with Ron! I´ve got a plane kit from him, it´s the small smoother "J-style".
The first thing I´ve to say is, that the quality which Ron makes is not to beat! Thank you, Ron! All parts are perfectly done, it´s apure joy to work with them.
After I received the kit, I decided to make a test run on the infills with a turning blank of Walnut. The plane shall get infills of Olive wood, but I´ve only one piece of wonderfully figured Olive wood, what allows only one attempt. So I thought it would be a good idea to make a test run with another wood to get a little experiance.
I bandsawed the blank and planed the rabbets. Sadly I´ve no pictures from that 1st step
.Then I sawed the blanks by hand to the proper angles and cleaned the surfaces with the LV DX 60. This block plane did a terriffic job! The cleaning of the bed on the rear infill has to be done very properly and I was happy to have the LV block plane. It worked perfectly!
The next steps were documented
The following pics shows the inserted blanks. The next step was to round the top slighly.
Now you will see why the layout of the rear infill looked a little weird. I intended to make a protection for the hand to make sure that the hand will not have contact with the sharp edges of the blade while planing.
Then it was time to fit the ends of the infills. At first I sawed the rough contour.
Then the front and rear contours wer sanded on the belt sander.
After that I chamfered the edges on the top of the infills to prepare the rounding of them. The LV Bullnose Plane did a terrific job on this!
Then it was time to round the edges by filing and sanding.
Then the infills were sanded to prepare the finish.
After that they got a coat of BLO.
It was just one coat of BLO so long. The finish will be improved after the BLO is dried. That being said, I assembled the plane to get an impression
That´s the progress so far. I do want to finish those walnut infills perfectly since I don´t know if the Olive wood infills will succeed.
The hand protection is a smaller benefit than I thought, because due to the little depth of the plane, the hand doesn´t lay flat on the top of the rear infill. So I´m not sure if the Olive infill will get this feature. Probably not.
Thanks for looking!
Regards
Klaus
