
Wooden shooting plane. Wooden plane for a shooting board. A sharp blade is the most important thing. At 7 34 lb and just under 16 long it is a substantial plane. The mass of this plane combined with its long base and low center of gravity makes it both stable and effective.
Restoring a old wood plane jointer. After that look for a plane thats comfortable heavy and bevel up. 45 degrees this plane 15 long x 3 34 wide x 2 12shoulder. Woodworking wood woodworking projects plane tool shooting board wooden plane all tools antique tools homemade tools planes.
It is flat and square but everything else is roughly shaped. I anticipation of a shooting board seminar i attended today i made this shooting plane. I was particularly looking forward to the latter as i has a lie nielsen 9 mitre plane on loan from ln for the two days and i knew my curiosity about how it stood against the new lie nielsen 51 shooting plane was shared by many. My dedicated shooter and cement floors be damned.
Best design ive seen given that i havent tried anything but a bench plane so far. What more can be saidill still use the 5 12 as a to quote david charlesworth super smoother and the krenov style wooden plane still finds its way to the workbench on ocassion. Not so long ago i wrote a blog explaining why planes dont continuously cut into shooting boards which would give you no good way to control how much wood you removed and would wear away the shooting board pretty darn quick. The plane is made from scrap mahogany reused maple hardwood flooring for the sides and a wedge of cherry to skew the blade slightly about 3 degrees.
Woodworking planes woodworking hand tools router woodworking antique tools old tools plane tool shooting board woodshop tools wooden plane. Hi folks this is a plane a customer requested a shoulder plane with a 10mm width. The timber is santos rosewood and it has a solid brass sole. I hope you enjoy my work restoring an old plane given to me as a gift.
Originally i was asked to demonstrate cutting dovetails but this was broadened to include shooting boards and planes. 316 t 1018 steel the blade is skewed at 20 degrees to the sole. Thats probably the question im asked most often.