Show your Krenov Plane

[Brian Kent]

In honor of James Krenov's life and contributions to woodworking, would anyone like to show a Krenov style plane that you have made?

Your Krenov-inspired furniture would be fun too.

Here's the first plane I tried. The blade was from an old woody, cut off with a hack saw.

[Bob Strawn]

How about Krenov inspired planes?
Here is one using a blade from a kit,


Here is James Krenov and Derek Cohen inspired mitre plane



Here is a Krenov inspired jointer with an adjustable mouth.



This is a bit more pure Krenov that I am currently making out of osage.




Bob

[Brian Kent]

Bob, these are beautiful. And yes - Krenov inspired planes are exactly what I man. What is the wood on your first photo? That osage orange is just stunning! Also, could you show how you made the adjustable mouth?

Brian

[Bob Strawn]

The first one is mesquite with ash sides.
The adjustable mouth came from making a Krenov and thinking that if I could slide the front back and forth it would be adjustable.

The thing is amazingly simple. I used a table saw to remove the wood in the center. The bed started out as the curve from the table saw's blade.


The body is like a tuning fork with a bridge for a grip. The bridge holds the front section in place.




The front grip has the adjustment screw.



It is mesquite, so it is pretty much as stable as wood can get. Initially I tuned it and it was great, but then it was tweaky for a few months. Now it is pretty much dead on all the time. I have not actually adjusted the mouth in about two years.

Bob

[Jeff Wittrock]

Here are a couple "Krenov like" planes I made. The first is using an iron from a Japanese style plane and is made from red oak. The second is using an iron from Ron Brese and is made from padauk.

[Jeff Wittrock]

This is a bit more pure Krenov that I am currently making out of osage.




Bob

Not to go off thread, but Wow, that stuff looks like it must be a lot of fun to cut.

[Bob Strawn]

Here are a couple "Krenov like" planes I made. The first is using an iron from a Japanese style plane and is made from red oak. The second is using an iron from Ron Brese and is made from padauk.

Those are delightful planes, Jeff!

[Bob Strawn]

This block has not been as bad as some. Osage can be rough to work at times.

Bob

[Greg Jurrens]

Here's a photo of my Krenov plane. I used ash for the body,purpleheart for the sole and a Hock iron.

[Christof Grohs]

Here is a one month old 12" Velvet Mesquite smoother with 2" iron....should darken up quite a bit....



Here is a plane JK sent me a couple years ago. It was a daily user up until he started to slow things down. Fairly crude from a visual point of view but it sings very well. I have never tried this nor do I know why JK did this but there is a 1/2" wide piece of blue tape laid in the throat flush along the bottom edge between the balde and the wood.

[Brian Kent]

The blue tape pushes the blade forward a little as a simple way to control the size of the mouth.

[David Gendron]

This is mine, I just finished it yeterday and I'm realy please with it... It actualy work bether than any plane I have and I do have a few! I think they will be metal plane for sale shortly!!!

I used Hard Maple with a little birds eye figure, the wedge is myrtle from Tasmenia and a Hock blade! I didn't have a piece thick anough so I used three piece of 1" thick to start with...

[Brian Kent]

Very nice, David!

[Don Rogers]

This plane was made from a piece of Oak firewood that I left dry in my shop for a few years. I did have to purchase a piece of 01 flat stock for the blade but made the chip breaker and blade screw from salvaged shop scrap.

No finish has been applied to this plane but I may use some shellac or BLO on it later.

The plane was made by following Davis Finck's book "Making and Mastering Wood Planes" and works very well. I hope to make more planes similar to this one using firewood from the same tree.

Don

[David Gendron]

I would love to be abble to use fire wood... but I'm not sure that jack pine would make a great plane