Wooden Shooting Plane

It is flat and square but everything else is roughly shaped.

Wooden shooting plane. Woodworking planes woodworking hand tools router woodworking antique tools old tools plane tool shooting board woodshop tools wooden plane. The mass of this plane combined with its long base and low center of gravity makes it both stable and effective. 316 t 1018 steel the blade is skewed at 20 degrees to the sole. What more can be saidill still use the 5 12 as a to quote david charlesworth super smoother and the krenov style wooden plane still finds its way to the workbench on ocassion.

I anticipation of a shooting board seminar i attended today i made this shooting plane. But the iron miter this 9 will be from this day forth my shooting plane. Hi folks this is a plane a customer requested a shoulder plane with a 10mm width. Not so long ago i wrote a blog explaining why planes dont continuously cut into shooting boards which would give you no good way to control how much wood you removed and would wear away the shooting board pretty darn quick.

The blade is bedded at 45 degrees. After that look for a plane thats comfortable heavy and bevel up. At 7 34 lb and just under 16 long it is a substantial plane. Thats probably the question im asked most often.

The timber is santos rosewood and it has a solid brass sole. 45 degrees this plane 15 long x 3 34 wide x 2 12shoulder. Restoring a old wood plane jointer. A sharp blade is the most important thing.

The plane is made from scrap mahogany reused maple hardwood flooring for the sides and a wedge of cherry to skew the blade slightly about 3 degrees. You will appreciate the authority it provides when shooting. Next video is make a shooting board test cut steel. My dedicated shooter and cement floors be damned.

Wooden plane for a shooting board. Best design ive seen given that i havent tried anything but a bench plane so far. I was particularly looking forward to the latter as i has a lie nielsen 9 mitre plane on loan from ln for the two days and i knew my curiosity about how it stood against the new lie nielsen 51 shooting plane was shared by many.