Rabbet Planes – which one?
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12 December 2012 at 2:22 pm #4630
Dave
ParticipantI’m looking for a rabbet plane and was wondering if anybody has used the veritas rabbet planes.
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12 December 2012 at 2:32 pm #4631Anonymous
InactiveDave,
Funny enough a friend of mine just bought one, and he brought it down to show me. We set it up and tried it out, It is a very nice plane. Fit and finish was 100% I don’t think you could go far wrong with it buddy.
12 December 2012 at 7:17 pm #4654Michael van Zadelhoff
ParticipantI have the Veritas right handed rabbat plane and I prefer it above a power router. It’s a lovely tool though pretty hard to setup and use correctly. It’s very easy to create a slope. But I’ve read about such planes and it seems common. I can make a square cut but I have to pay close attention.
12 December 2012 at 7:18 pm #4655Michael van Zadelhoff
ParticipantLittle correction: it doesn’t seem common to create a slope but the difficulty of the setup 🙂
12 December 2012 at 8:07 pm #4656juryaan
ParticipantI have the left hand version of the veritas skew rabbet plane.
Made the rabbets on the back of the raised panel with this plane.
Great plane .
Lopik - Netherlands
13 December 2012 at 1:58 am #4668John Guengerich Jr
ParticipantI have an older Record Rabbet plane 078 I think. I like it. It has two post for the fence instead of thethe one post that Stanley and other clones of that day used. It isn’t as great on the cross-crain as the Veritas skewed planes but it is a very small fraction of the price on ebay and if you score the area, take shallow cuts, it still works very well.
That said, I lust after the Veritas Skewed Rabbet/Rebate planes.
13 December 2012 at 7:52 am #4670Anonymous
InactiveI often use a skew ironed Record #712 for cross grain work on raised panels, although I quite fancy test driving Veritas offering. 🙂 Other than that, the type of rebate plane I use varies depending on the work in hand, but you can quite often opt for a plough/combination plane, or fillister #78/#078/#778. You seldom find exposed cross grain rebates, but maintaining a sharp edge and fine blade setting genuinely works wonders whenever a finer finish is desired, plus a finer cut tends to make rebating a comparatively effortless exercise in comparison to using a heavy cut. 🙂
13 December 2012 at 9:16 am #4671psi
ParticipantScoring the grain by first moving the rebate plane backwards a couple of strokes made it much easier for me. Still can’t keep the rebates from sloping though (Stanley 78).
Stupid is like stupid does, even here in rural Finland.
13 December 2012 at 10:49 am #4672Anonymous
InactiveHi Pasi,
Setting the iron so it stands very slightly proud of the side of the plane (At the shoulder of the rebate) helps the cut, while adding a wooden fence (10mm thick x 38mm deep) to the iron fence can help prevent sloping, but you also need to keep the fence firmly against the work piece. 🙂
13 December 2012 at 2:32 pm #4683kelly
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Texas, USA
13 December 2012 at 2:33 pm #4684kelly
ParticipantSo, I gather from reading this thread, a skewed rabbit plane is preferred? Is that correct?
Does the skewed plane work with the grain and across the grain equally well?
If one only purchased a skewed plane, would that be sufficient for most, if not all rabbiting tasks?
Texas, USA
13 December 2012 at 3:05 pm #4685Anonymous
InactiveChris Schwarz, thinks it’s one of the finest metal rabbeting planes ever made.
http://www.wkfinetools.com/contrib/cSchwarz/z_art/vSkewRabbet/vSkewRabbet-1.asp
13 December 2012 at 4:20 pm #4699Brent Ingvardsen
ParticipantI just received my pristine 044 from EBay. Can’t wait to run it through some wood and learn its particulars.
Brent
Meridianville, Alabama, USA
13 December 2012 at 4:23 pm #4700Anonymous
InactiveBrent,
Some pics would be nice 🙂
13 December 2012 at 4:26 pm #4701Anonymous
InactiveHi Kelly,
A skewed planing angle is of particular benefit when raising panels across grain, but isn’t a necessity when dealing with most concealed rebating work. 😉
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