12-26-2017, 04:56 PM
There have been, and I am sure there will be again, times when I wished I had a chisel plane. As far as I know my only choices for one was Lee Valley or Lie Nielsen. And those are over $100.
Now I had cut the front of from a regular angle Dunlap block plane before and it works well for cutting glue off from glued up panels so I could send them through the drum sander and somewhat functioned as a chisel plane but I always thought a low angle block plane would work better. Well it is very cold outside and my shop has been put to bed for the winter and I thought now is a good time as any to do it so I used my Dremel tool with a cut off wheel and cut the front off from the block plane. Actually I did it to two of them and I may offer the other for sale in the S@S section when I get around to it. I shaped it a bit on my disc sander. And the pictures is of what is left.
Tom
Now I had cut the front of from a regular angle Dunlap block plane before and it works well for cutting glue off from glued up panels so I could send them through the drum sander and somewhat functioned as a chisel plane but I always thought a low angle block plane would work better. Well it is very cold outside and my shop has been put to bed for the winter and I thought now is a good time as any to do it so I used my Dremel tool with a cut off wheel and cut the front off from the block plane. Actually I did it to two of them and I may offer the other for sale in the S@S section when I get around to it. I shaped it a bit on my disc sander. And the pictures is of what is left.
Tom