Jim Koepke
11-04-2018, 6:30 PM
As if there weren't enough spokeshaves in my shop, recently wooden bodied spokeshaves have been popping up and at prices cheap enough to get me to take out my wallet.
The small one on top was my first one that worked. There is an old broken one someone gave me somewhere. It was so nice straight from finding it in the wild that it made me think maybe more should be acquired:
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The bigger one was found at the same antique store in Scappoose, OR as the small one. Since the first one was purchased a bunch more showed up on the scene. This was the best of the bunch. My thought was to maybe buy a few more, then my inner voice asked how many are needed and how much work will be involved?
Settled for the one. The wear on the toe caused it to take very thick shavings in the middle. It also had a tendency to clog. Comparing it to the small spoke shave showed the escapement was much tighter on the large spokeshave. The angle on the escapement was opened up a bit without changing the mouth in the area of the blade.
The pencil line on the larger spokeshave in the image above is the edge of where a rabbet was planned to install a brass wear strip on the toe to correct the worn wood.
It seemed that lining the shave to the edge of the bench and using a Stanley #45 was a good way to get this done:
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It worked quite well. The rabbet was checked with some brass strip material:
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The brass was marked and drilled before cutting to length. In all three drill bits were used to cut a shank clearance in the brass, make the countersink in the brass and then to drill a pilot hole in the wood. It would have likely been a good idea to drill a little shank clearance in the wood, but all worked out okay.
Here is the finished job:
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The shavings are much more controllable and they do not tend to clog.
396061
There is a little bit of fettling left to do, but it is the minor part of gluing some wood shims under the blade to regulate the setting.
jtk
The small one on top was my first one that worked. There is an old broken one someone gave me somewhere. It was so nice straight from finding it in the wild that it made me think maybe more should be acquired:
396057
The bigger one was found at the same antique store in Scappoose, OR as the small one. Since the first one was purchased a bunch more showed up on the scene. This was the best of the bunch. My thought was to maybe buy a few more, then my inner voice asked how many are needed and how much work will be involved?
Settled for the one. The wear on the toe caused it to take very thick shavings in the middle. It also had a tendency to clog. Comparing it to the small spoke shave showed the escapement was much tighter on the large spokeshave. The angle on the escapement was opened up a bit without changing the mouth in the area of the blade.
The pencil line on the larger spokeshave in the image above is the edge of where a rabbet was planned to install a brass wear strip on the toe to correct the worn wood.
It seemed that lining the shave to the edge of the bench and using a Stanley #45 was a good way to get this done:
396058
It worked quite well. The rabbet was checked with some brass strip material:
396059
The brass was marked and drilled before cutting to length. In all three drill bits were used to cut a shank clearance in the brass, make the countersink in the brass and then to drill a pilot hole in the wood. It would have likely been a good idea to drill a little shank clearance in the wood, but all worked out okay.
Here is the finished job:
396060
The shavings are much more controllable and they do not tend to clog.
396061
There is a little bit of fettling left to do, but it is the minor part of gluing some wood shims under the blade to regulate the setting.
jtk