backing-out plane

[Ken Bryant]

Steve Knight built me a backing-out plane. It's used in carvel-style wooden boat building to hollow out the inside of a plank, so it fits the curve of the ribs. The blade is cambered, and the sole curved to match.

[David Marcus Brown]

Very nice plane . . . and that background in the picture is a great gloat! It must be great to live on the coast w/ a view like that.

[Alan DuBoff]

It looks nice.

How long did it take for you to get? I just fired off a message to Steve to find out if my planes might get to me by New Years. It's only been about 4 1/2 months since I placed the first order.

EDIT: got a reply from Steve, my planes are coming soon. Pics to come.

[Ken Bryant]

Alan, I can't remember exactly how long it took, but I think it was a couple of months. May not be the fastest, but it's undoubtedly worth waiting for, and the prices are, I think, ridiculously low. $125 for a custom-made, very specialized plane. I hope to own lots of Steve Knight planes, and I'm willing to wait for them...

David, thanks. Yes, that was a bit of an underhanded gloat. That's the view from my house on Galiano Island, where my shop is. Unfortunately I have to spend part of each week in Vancouver, where my shop isn't.

[Jim Becker]

Beautiful tool in a beautiful place! Congrats on the acquisition.

[Jerry Palmer]

I don't know how much custom work or even if Steve will be doing any retail at all. Seems he has found a retail outlet for his stuff and, for his sake, I hope that keeps him too busy to take custom orders himself. He has had tendencies to get behind the 8 ball time wise of late. Being able to do more standardized runs of planes will help him out significantly, I think.