As I have mentioned before most of my entries will be piece meal and out of sequence. On this occasion I have managed to take some pictures whilst making chip breakers. Apologies for missing the bending and forming of the front edge of the chip breaker but I forgot to take the pictures.
These chip breakers are standard on all my smoothing planes with 2 ¼” blades. They are made from gauge plate.
Milling the faceted end of the chip breaker with a rough cutter.
Just a few quick pictures of this Boxwood A13 I have just finished
A13 dovetailed infill plane continued (8)
Shaping front bun on the A13 smoothing plane
Corner rounding after shaping the bun.
A13 dovetailed infill plane continued (6)
Parting off and trimming spacers which I use on all my infill planes for better dimensional stability.
A13 dovetailed infill plane continued (5)
It is difficult to believe that these two pictures of the boxwood are the same handle. It is amazing what you can do with light.
A13 dovetailed infill plane continued (4)
Some of the preparation work and then putting the metal parts together.
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One of those tedious jobs – polishing the chamfers. As you can see these need constant blueing to maintain the true flat angle all the way round.
A13 dovetailed infill plane continued (3)
Here I describe some of the work to the bottoms of the planes. This is an area where most of the work of the plane is. It is probably light years ahead of any other infill plane.
Rebate to dovetail
Making of A13 part two
Much of the infill work is always trued up flat and square before any of the work commences, as in most woodworking projects.
In this picture are the rear infill sides showing the frog area routered away and this gives me a datum stop which helps me work out the drilling positions and its position in the plane. This will also be the same with the handle.
Making of A13
Not quite all of the sequential process, but most of it – not necessarily in order
A13 drilling lever cap for pivot screw
All my drilling and tappings are done in the milling machine so that I can achieve the best positioning and concentricity.
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