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Rabbet Planes – which one?

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  • Dave
    12 December 2012 at 2:22 pm #4630

    I’m looking for a rabbet plane and was wondering if anybody has used the veritas rabbet planes.

    -Canada

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    Anonymous
    12 December 2012 at 2:32 pm #4631

    Dave,

    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.

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    Michael van Zadelhoff
    12 December 2012 at 7:17 pm #4654

    I 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.

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    Michael van Zadelhoff
    12 December 2012 at 7:18 pm #4655

    Little correction: it doesn’t seem common to create a slope but the difficulty of the setup 🙂

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    juryaan
    12 December 2012 at 8:07 pm #4656

    I 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

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    John Guengerich Jr
    13 December 2012 at 1:58 am #4668

    I 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.

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    Anonymous
    13 December 2012 at 7:52 am #4670

    I 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.  🙂

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    psi
    13 December 2012 at 9:16 am #4671

    Scoring 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.

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    Anonymous
    13 December 2012 at 10:49 am #4672

    Hi 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. 🙂

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    kelly
    13 December 2012 at 2:32 pm #4683

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    Texas, USA

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    kelly
    13 December 2012 at 2:33 pm #4684

    So, 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

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    Anonymous
    13 December 2012 at 3:05 pm #4685

    Chris 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

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    Brent Ingvardsen
    13 December 2012 at 4:20 pm #4699

    I just received my pristine 044 from EBay. Can’t wait to run it through some wood and learn its particulars.

     

    Brent

    Meridianville, Alabama, USA

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    Anonymous
    13 December 2012 at 4:23 pm #4700

    Brent,

    Some pics would be nice 🙂

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    Anonymous
    13 December 2012 at 4:26 pm #4701

    Hi 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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