Ian Coop
04-25-2009, 12:27 AM
Evening, a while back I posted my experience using the Veritas side rabbet plane to make some raised panel doors. During the exchange of information it was mentioned that due to the size of the metal arms that came with the plane, I was limited to the width of the bevels on the raised panels. The addition of an angled subfence made the bevels possible but because of the length of the fence arms, you could not utilise the full width of the iron - about 1 1/2 inches.
Well Rob Lee sent me an email requesting my address. A few days went by and lo and behold - longer arms for the fence on my skew rabbet plane. Well, I was blown away by the customer service. Mr. Lee is certainly a gentleman.
I had to use up some scraps of oak sitting around the shop, so I made a bedside table for my eldest son in an Arts and Crafts design with wedged through tenons and the like. I wanted to bevel the underside of the table top and used the new longer arms on the rabbet plane instead of a tablesaw.
The skew plane was set to take a moderate bite of wood and the process was so fast I could hardly believe it. About twenty minutes or so with the skew rabbet plane and a little work with a block plane and it was done. Done twice actually as I started out using an 8 degree subfence then switched to a 10 degree one.
Anyway, I can't imagine it would have been faster and certainly not easier to use a tablesaw.
My thanks again to Mr. Rob Lee for the gift. I use the rabbet plane far more than I had imagined I would. Now to save up for the left handed version...
Ian Cooper
Well Rob Lee sent me an email requesting my address. A few days went by and lo and behold - longer arms for the fence on my skew rabbet plane. Well, I was blown away by the customer service. Mr. Lee is certainly a gentleman.
I had to use up some scraps of oak sitting around the shop, so I made a bedside table for my eldest son in an Arts and Crafts design with wedged through tenons and the like. I wanted to bevel the underside of the table top and used the new longer arms on the rabbet plane instead of a tablesaw.
The skew plane was set to take a moderate bite of wood and the process was so fast I could hardly believe it. About twenty minutes or so with the skew rabbet plane and a little work with a block plane and it was done. Done twice actually as I started out using an 8 degree subfence then switched to a 10 degree one.
Anyway, I can't imagine it would have been faster and certainly not easier to use a tablesaw.
My thanks again to Mr. Rob Lee for the gift. I use the rabbet plane far more than I had imagined I would. Now to save up for the left handed version...
Ian Cooper