Richard Gillespie
10-13-2003, 10:44 PM
Today I started a project I should have finished one year ago. I'm making a canopy bed for my youngest son and his wife. As you have probably guessed, it's a wedding present and they got married last November. My wife always said if they gave out medals for procrastination I'd need a hand cart to move mine. I've got my reasons why I'm late, none good. Oh Well!!!
I started today by ripping the 12 quarter Ash into 2-3/4" by 8' strips for the legs. That was an experience with my skill saw. I had to stop midway, go out and buy a new blade. I noticed the old one smoking and checked the teeth. Needless to say they were shot. That was a good blade three years ago. I can just imagine how long that would have taken someone with a hand saw. Probably would have been faster than what I went through, come to think of it.
Anyway, I'll get to my question. Prior to surface planing the legs, I decided to take the bow and a little bit of twist out of them by hand planning. I used a # 5 and #7 Stanley. To check the twist, I used a couple of pieces of oak as references. After about two hours work I got one leg flat one side. I took a little more than 1/4" off the high point. The Ash looks great after planning. However, I'm wondering if there is a better combo of planes to use for this purpose.
I have been collecting CI planes and have about 20 of them This collection includes everything from a #3 Stanley to a #7 Stanley. Of Course, many of them aren't made by Stanley. I don't have a scrub plane unfortunately. I've considered converting one of the # 3's by grinding a radius on the blade. But I haven't "gotten round to it" yet.
I started today by ripping the 12 quarter Ash into 2-3/4" by 8' strips for the legs. That was an experience with my skill saw. I had to stop midway, go out and buy a new blade. I noticed the old one smoking and checked the teeth. Needless to say they were shot. That was a good blade three years ago. I can just imagine how long that would have taken someone with a hand saw. Probably would have been faster than what I went through, come to think of it.
Anyway, I'll get to my question. Prior to surface planing the legs, I decided to take the bow and a little bit of twist out of them by hand planning. I used a # 5 and #7 Stanley. To check the twist, I used a couple of pieces of oak as references. After about two hours work I got one leg flat one side. I took a little more than 1/4" off the high point. The Ash looks great after planning. However, I'm wondering if there is a better combo of planes to use for this purpose.
I have been collecting CI planes and have about 20 of them This collection includes everything from a #3 Stanley to a #7 Stanley. Of Course, many of them aren't made by Stanley. I don't have a scrub plane unfortunately. I've considered converting one of the # 3's by grinding a radius on the blade. But I haven't "gotten round to it" yet.