Comments on: Discussion

By: admin

admin — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:37:01 +0000

Thanks for your comments which make sense. I have come to the conclusion that the earlier plane makers didn’t use sneck blades on smoothers and panel planes as they had chip breakers. I have decided to make a non-adjuster smoother which will reduce the cost considerably. I will be using a top sneck to the blade as this means a back stroke on the blade will be central – side snecking could mean dinking the handle. I will give a striking button some thought, good idea, but is more applicable for a handless plane.

By: jimjam66

jimjam66 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:24:03 +0000

I don’t know much about Plane history but it would seem to me that having a strike button on the rear of the plane would be far simpler than snecking the blade, particularly as you wouldn’t have to lengthen the blade. I learned early to ignore the side-to-side adjustment on my block plane and just use a pin hammer instead – It gives far better control over minute adjustments. It also crosses my mind that if my plane was a non-adjuster I wouldn’t have the adjuster backlash that is the bane of my life. So I think it would be unfair to characterise choosing a non-adjuster Plane as elitist (although no doubt some behave in a way that begs the characterisation)!

By: bobbb576

bobbb576 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 12:27:52 +0000

Interesting concept. I agree that it should work. Look forward to seeing what you come up with.