Ron Petley
06-19-2007, 10:15 AM
Well this is my first post here, Ryan put me on to you folks.
I bought a Stanley #5, Bailey, made in Canada, at the local junk store for $15.00. It sat there for a few weeks until I finally decided to give it a new home. I was slow on the uptake as I was thinking it was a little big for my tastes, but I bought it anyway.
And so the project began. Unfortunately I have no photos of cleaning, tuneing and general messing about with the thing. After that I decided to make a new knob and tote, thinking that would make the plane more my own, while thinking in the back of my mind this will keep the kids from selling it on e bay, I will keep the original parts squirled away.
I had a board of Brazilian blood wood and thought it would look good and was hard enough. Well with hindsight this wood is more than hard enough to say the least, and is something else to work with. I turned the front knob and sanded it up to 600 grit. I did not change the shape and tried to follow the original but make it look good as well as fit my hand well. Once turned I drilled the top and bottom to fit the plane. The whole thing went together like a clockwork.
The tote I cut out with a saw and rough shaped it with file and rasp. The wood being hard easily chips out on any sharp edges, but the shape has rounded edges so any chipping got filed away. Once roughed out I drilled the center hole. this was a little tricky trying to get the hole exactly right. Also the drill would wander off the mark so I had a hard time getting the hole started. I ended up making the countersink hole first and then drilling the smaller one through after.
With the hole done I will finish sanding the tote to final shape. I also made a few mosaic pins for the tote, which is why it has a hole in the middle of it. I do not have a close up photo of them, my camera is on the fritz and the closeup feature does not work. It is a brass tube with 4 brass pins inside it and the space around the pins is filled with red dyed epoxy. This comes out as a cloverleaf looking pattern. I do not have them in because the brass sanding dust smears onto the wood when sanded. I will insert them when I am closer to the final shape.
Thanks for looking, this is my first go at something like this so any comments are welcome. I did use some power tools for this project but it was kept to a minimum, my lathe, and drill use the juice.
Cheers Ron.
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f333/mookie098/th_P5310379.jpg (http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f333/mookie098/P5310379.jpg)
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f333/mookie098/th_P5310377.jpg (http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f333/mookie098/P5310377.jpg)
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f333/mookie098/th_P5310375.jpg (http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f333/mookie098/P5310375.jpg)
I bought a Stanley #5, Bailey, made in Canada, at the local junk store for $15.00. It sat there for a few weeks until I finally decided to give it a new home. I was slow on the uptake as I was thinking it was a little big for my tastes, but I bought it anyway.
And so the project began. Unfortunately I have no photos of cleaning, tuneing and general messing about with the thing. After that I decided to make a new knob and tote, thinking that would make the plane more my own, while thinking in the back of my mind this will keep the kids from selling it on e bay, I will keep the original parts squirled away.
I had a board of Brazilian blood wood and thought it would look good and was hard enough. Well with hindsight this wood is more than hard enough to say the least, and is something else to work with. I turned the front knob and sanded it up to 600 grit. I did not change the shape and tried to follow the original but make it look good as well as fit my hand well. Once turned I drilled the top and bottom to fit the plane. The whole thing went together like a clockwork.
The tote I cut out with a saw and rough shaped it with file and rasp. The wood being hard easily chips out on any sharp edges, but the shape has rounded edges so any chipping got filed away. Once roughed out I drilled the center hole. this was a little tricky trying to get the hole exactly right. Also the drill would wander off the mark so I had a hard time getting the hole started. I ended up making the countersink hole first and then drilling the smaller one through after.
With the hole done I will finish sanding the tote to final shape. I also made a few mosaic pins for the tote, which is why it has a hole in the middle of it. I do not have a close up photo of them, my camera is on the fritz and the closeup feature does not work. It is a brass tube with 4 brass pins inside it and the space around the pins is filled with red dyed epoxy. This comes out as a cloverleaf looking pattern. I do not have them in because the brass sanding dust smears onto the wood when sanded. I will insert them when I am closer to the final shape.
Thanks for looking, this is my first go at something like this so any comments are welcome. I did use some power tools for this project but it was kept to a minimum, my lathe, and drill use the juice.
Cheers Ron.
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f333/mookie098/th_P5310379.jpg (http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f333/mookie098/P5310379.jpg)
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f333/mookie098/th_P5310377.jpg (http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f333/mookie098/P5310377.jpg)
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f333/mookie098/th_P5310375.jpg (http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f333/mookie098/P5310375.jpg)