
Veritas plow plane tongue and groove. Lee valley has just released a conversion kit for their small plow plane which enables the plane to accept wider irons including cutters that make tongues. I used the veritas plow plane with the conversion kit to make tongue and grooves in these shelf boards. A 14 groove in 30 seconds with the veritas plow plane. The vintage stanley no.
Andrew if you want a dedicated tg plane get a stanley 48 or 49. Not long ago i picked up an old stanley 45 combination plane with the intention of buying a set of tongue and groove. In addition to being brittle a number of the boards even had knots on the edge where i made grooves. Also rather than having two separate blades ours is a single forked blade that registers on the milled body casting to ensure.
It has been eagerly anticipated by many partly because veritas may be counted on to produce an innovative product and partly because there has not been a new metal plough of quality built since record ended production of their 044 in 1970. 48 plane was one of the most gizmo tastic planes in the companys arsenal. Having said that my preference would go to the ln version for its ease of. Tongue and groove plane based on the stanley no.
It was a tough test. This is a short video on how to convert the veritas plow plane using their accessories into a tongue and groove plane. Veritas recently launched their small plow plane onto the market. Used for tongue and groove work the interchangeable blade system enables you to cut six different tongue widths grooves are cut with matching sizes of our standard blades to support stock of varying thicknesses all using the same plane.
The veritas small plow plane. 48 and 49 our tongue and groove planes are more heavily built for sound performance with a very thick blade. Groove blades for small plough plane nice. Its a single tool that can cut both the tongue and the mating groove.
One blade will cut both tongue and groove while the veritas version only the forked blade will execute the tongue and then you will need replace the blade with a grooving blade to do the groove. Each a2 cutter has an integral depth stop and shaving deflector. I have owned and used the plow plane for about a year now and i always enjoyed using the little gem. Picture courtesy of veritas.
Also the fence is fixed on both the 48 and 49 there is no adjustments to be made so if your board is thicker than or 12 as long as the fence is placed on the reference side your boards.