Couple Radius Bottomed Planes
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Tagged: maple, plane, radius plane
I’ve finally gotten around to making a radius-bottomed plane. Actually two of them, though the first one is in pine and was made as a prototype to help me see the pitfalls during building. In one of the pictures it is shown with a “mock” iron made of maple. The “real” plane is from a chunk of maple.
I shaped the iron to fit the sole of the pine plane and when shaping the maple plane, I refined it to use the same iron as the pine plane. A hacksaw was used to rough out the shape and that really saved a lot of time filing (it still took a while). Still need to harden and temper the iron.
I’m happy with how these came out and can’t wait to use them on a chair or stool project soon.
Like Jude @jude noted with his planes, I found it a poor idea to try clamping the glued-up plane in the vise and so I used F-body clamps. Still not perfect; a little bed modification was needed after gluing.
Nice work Matt. A great little project on its own and comes in handy for other projects. Now that you have them, you’ll find lots of uses that you never considered.
Thanks guys. I’ve given it a small test run on some scrap, but can’t wait to try it on a real project.