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The little Starret is a very useful tool, and I just found a double square that needs a little tuneup I expect will be great.
But I expect a Starret tool to perform.
In the shocking-how-well-they-work category is a Roubo style hollow and round set I made last March from a throwaway planer blade and some scrap Eastern White Pine and cherry for boxing following Caleb James’ article in last April’s Popular Woodworking magazine. It’s not much different than Paul’s rabbet plane tutorial.
The actual construction needed no special floats or anything and the planes work just as well as my English style antiques. That was the shocking part. It really wasn’t very hard to make a pair of planes. The round was just shaped with a block plane and templates make from a hole drilled in 1/4″ ply, the hollow was shaped by the Round.
In these construction pictures I hadn’t opened up the escapements yet. Shavings now shoot out in ribbons
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- This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Larry Geib.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Larry Geib.