bridger berdel
10-27-2014, 3:15 AM
so I have this #10.
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got it off craigslist for $40, which as it turns out might have been too much. it's a pretty late model, plastic handles, chrome lever cap.... it had a huge hollow in the sole, so I flaked it flat.
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now it's good and flat. the cutter was too narrow for the body. the factory, almost unused cutter, was too narrow. A kindly galoot set me up with a vintage one that reaches the sidewalls.
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I made a run of walnut totes. one of them is on this plane now. I'll make knobs One Of These Days Real Soon Now.
anyway, it works OK, but it seems to be a bit vague about where the shoulder is. that is, if I set up a batten and knife the shoulder line it cuts pretty cleanly, but when that knife line bottoms out the shoulder cut gets ragged and doesn't track. this plane is great as it is for cleaning up saw marks on a sawn rabbet, and maybe that is all it was meant to be good for, but I was hoping for more. seems to me that if it just had nickers, like the #10-1/2 I think has, sinking rabbets would be a reasonable task for this plane. so I'm thinking of getting a set of nickers and mortising them into the sides. I have a functional mill-drill, which should be adequate for the task. I think the location for the nicker would be centered over the reinforcing rib just ahead of the mouth. I know that these planes are fragile and prone to side wall cracks at the mouth, so it does make me a bit nervous.
any thoughts?
299072
got it off craigslist for $40, which as it turns out might have been too much. it's a pretty late model, plastic handles, chrome lever cap.... it had a huge hollow in the sole, so I flaked it flat.
299073
now it's good and flat. the cutter was too narrow for the body. the factory, almost unused cutter, was too narrow. A kindly galoot set me up with a vintage one that reaches the sidewalls.
299074
I made a run of walnut totes. one of them is on this plane now. I'll make knobs One Of These Days Real Soon Now.
anyway, it works OK, but it seems to be a bit vague about where the shoulder is. that is, if I set up a batten and knife the shoulder line it cuts pretty cleanly, but when that knife line bottoms out the shoulder cut gets ragged and doesn't track. this plane is great as it is for cleaning up saw marks on a sawn rabbet, and maybe that is all it was meant to be good for, but I was hoping for more. seems to me that if it just had nickers, like the #10-1/2 I think has, sinking rabbets would be a reasonable task for this plane. so I'm thinking of getting a set of nickers and mortising them into the sides. I have a functional mill-drill, which should be adequate for the task. I think the location for the nicker would be centered over the reinforcing rib just ahead of the mouth. I know that these planes are fragile and prone to side wall cracks at the mouth, so it does make me a bit nervous.
any thoughts?