I made these planes a couple of years ago. One is a Roundover Plane and the other is a Chamfer Plane. Both are made of Maple.

The dark sides are Torrefied Maple and the lighter inner part is Eastern Hard Rock Maple.

I made them entirely with hand tools and the blades as well.

 

The bottoms of both are 90° V grooves ( see Fig 2) This is because I designed them to ride on the workpiece corners. I had just sharpened the blades on both and set them for a project I was doing.

 

I attached a photo looking down into the throat (see Fig 1). Bed angles for both are 45°. If I were to do again I would maybe go 50°.

I had some tool steel flat bar for making the  blades. I annealed first to remove hardness.

I used a propane torch and brought to cherry red. I let it cool, and then grinded. shaped, and beveled the cutting edge at 30°.

Then heated up again to cherry red and quenched in oil.

Then heated up again to a straw color and quenched in oil again to temper. Finally I honed. 

 

Fig 1

 

 

Fig 2

 

The planes are a joy to use!!

 

Thanks for looking! 

Cheers! 

MrRick 

I made this one, a long time ago, from plans in "Shop Notes" ( I think ). Bought the blade.

 

That looks nice lew! How was it dovetailing those brass cheeks to metal sole?

1 hour ago, MrRick said:

That looks nice lew! How was it dovetailing those brass cheeks to metal sole?

A lot of “tapping”!

I do alot of dovetails and always wanted to try brass cheeks to stainless sole. I'll have to give it a whirl! 

Lew... how long did it take you to do it?

A couple of months off and on. Steel sole plate hacksaw cutting was the most difficult. I don't have a metal working lathe, but at  the time, I was an instructor at the local Vocational School and used the a metal lathe there to make the adjustment screw. Did the threads with a hand die. 

 

Shop Notes Issue 88

Again... very nice work lew. Nice job!