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Monday, March 28, 2016

Twin rabbet planes

Ive made these two rabbets planes by copying a larger XVII century exemplar. The main characteristic is that it has only one open side. As a blade I used a file, properly shaped and sharpened. The body is mahogany, the sole wenge. The metal bar on the side avoids flexion body when the wedge is forced into place and adds weight to the plane. You could avoid increasing the plane body thickness or decreasing the width of the blade, but in both cases these are uncomfortable compromises.

The hole for chips ejection can be easily achieved with a Forstner bit. The body design is very close to the original and I must say that the fingers have a perfect support.

Having only one side useful for working you have to build two twin planes, each working in one direction. One use for wich I found convenient is to finish the rabbets. In this one, made with the circular saw, I screwed the setting of the blade and the result was a visible residual step. A simple job for one of the little twins!

Buying USA Stanley Planes

pdf file can be download here:

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A few years ago I began to buy my first Stanley planes on the net and I won my first auction for a strange red plane, paying it only $10.

My skills and knowledge about planes were limited, so I asked a friend of mine for receiving more information about.

When he saw the plane said: "you are lucky, Giuliano, this is a type 13 SW Stanley Bailey. Someone painted it red" and explicated me its features and why some vintage planes were considered better than others. Since that day I began to read all it was possible to find on the net about Stanley vintage planes, and to buy other models on ebay (mostly ebay US). Here it is possible to have a very large plane offer. I always preferred to point auctions with few photos, good information about plane conditions but poor description of age and types. The reason is simple: more type information there are, more users and collectors point that auction and more the price will be high. In fact, information about plane typing are widely present on the net. My first reference is the Joshua Clark site http://www.hyperkitten.com. Here is possible to date vintage Stanley plane (made in USA) using an easy to use flow chart for planes from type 1 (1867) to type 20 (1967): http://www.hyperkitten.com/tools/stanley_bench_plane/start_flowchart.php.

Of course, during a century of production, Stanley planes had not same quality. Varies improvements occurred as the lateral lever, the frog adjusting screw, and a higher knob with raised ring.

The lateral lever was introduced with type 5 planes. It is an essential element, very useful for compensate out of square cutting edge.

The chart I am proposing is intended to help buyers to choose best USA Stanley bench plane, having for this purpose only few pics and seller description. Of course these advices are based on my personal considerations and experience during these years of plane use.

For example, I find the frog adjusting screw useful only for smoothing planes in which a frequent mouth adjustment is desirable.

Low and high knob, on the right a raised ring at base is present

Again, the raised ring surrounding the knob base is often indicated as important for prevent knob breaking during hard use, but this never occurred to me.

On the right, the lever cap with keyhole-shaped hole

So I used these elements not as absolute choice characteristic, but rather as relative feature to identification when other elements are not visible in the pics.

Using the chart is quite simple. Choose what kind of plane you are betting on (smoother or not) and follow the diagram. If the result is red, not buy, if it is green, so go and enjoy your plane.

Woodworking Hand Planes

Woodworking Hand Planes - woodworking

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