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15 January 2013 at 3:25 pm #6551
The old planes, once properly tuned up and adjusted and fitted with a better blade and chop breaker work very well.
The Lie-Nielsen planes work that well or better with just a good sharpening. Either should work wonderfully for most folks in my opinion. The LN planes are beautiful too, and have a little more weight (which is usually an advantage). Their standard bench planes all have the “bedrock” style frog, which means that you can more easily adjust the throat opening. On the other hand, restoring an old, abused plane is a lot of fun and very gratifying. The pictures are of a Stanley #5 that I bought for cheap ($14.50) and restored. I fitted it with a blade/breaker from Ron Hock, but for what I use the #5 for (rough dimensioning) I probably could have used the original blade setup too. It was pretty rusty though.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.14 January 2013 at 5:26 am #6483I finished my “milking stool” this weekend., that’s the 3 legged stool with the carved seat from the book. It was fun. I tweaked the shape some and made the legs a little more bulbous. I’m going to pick up some pine this week for the bookcase project. I think that will be great practice on dados and m&t joints.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.11 January 2013 at 3:17 pm #6399Hi Frank,
Keep at it with ebay. Sometimes you run into a bidding war on something, but for user-grade tools you probably won’t run into a lot of collectors and there are loads of tools that cycle through there. You can pick up the essentials for cheap, especially if you’re willing to do some cleaning and restoration.
I picked up this plane for about $15 on ebay, and spent a day or so fixing it up, I use it all the time now.
I’m in the Santa Cruz area, if you need a hand I’d be happy to help.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.11 January 2013 at 2:28 pm #6393Thanks guys.
If anyone hasn’t made a few projects from the book I’d strongly recommend it. None of them require a huge investment in tools of lumber, they are fun to make and very instructional in technique.
My brother-in-law is a DIY kind of guy, although not a woodworker by any stretch. I gave him Paul’s book for Christmas. I knew I liked the book, but before I bought it for him I looked at several other books in the same category: “New Traditional Woodworker” by Jim Tolpin, “Made by Hand” by Tom Figden and a few others that escape me at the moment. They are all wonderful books, but Paul’s has the best combination of basic information about wood and necessary tools, interesting but approachable projects, and in-depth information on sharpening. If one works through the projects in the book I think you’ll have the basic skills to take on much more advanced/complex projects.
11 January 2013 at 1:15 am #6378I’ve made several of the projects from the book. I have to say, they have all been fun and very instructional.
The 3-legged stool isn’t finished yet, I have some more fine tuning on the parts before I glue and finish it. I’ve made two of the candle boxes, one in Canary Pine and one in Cherry. These are a lot of fun to do. It helped my with my dovetail technique, and also with laying out and cutting hinge mortises.
I’m thinking I’ll make the bookcase with my 12 year old son for his room, maybe starting this weekend. I’ve been documenting the step-by-step on these on my blog
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