Last Project 2
A really thick piece of Brass off a Tyzack & Turner tenon saw with a lovely little elephant trademark, made into a small mitre plane. I have used for the first time, a round bar which I have shaped by hand into an old looking bridge, as in the 17th century. I have squared the ends so that it cannot turn and I have flattened the underneath to give the wedge a better grip.
I have added numerous marks to the sides to even the original trademarks already on the brass. My name appears on the side and front.
The plane is almost finished. I have made a raised Boxwood front infill.
I have put through tenons on the heel and toe.
I have coloured the Boxwood slightly, put a decoration on the wedge to match the bridge and punch decoration on the sides of the scrolled wedge. I have stamped Carter with a zig zag border on the wedge.
I am known for colouring my planes.
I have started a mitre plane, it will be made completely of Bronze.
The infill is Boxwood.
I decided to scroll the wedge.
I am making a mitre plane using a Richard Ibbetson tenon saw.
I am using Rosewood to infill the plane.
At this stage the wedge has sharp edges, tomorrow I will round them in keeping with the front infill.
This shows the rounded edges of the wedge. The plane is now finished.
I have started a mitre plane, it will be made completely of Bronze.
The base is cramped with the body resting on top ready for marking the dovetails.
This shows the marks on the base for the dovetails.
I took this plane, unfinished to West Dean College to show how mitre planes were constructed.
This is the finished plane with a Boxwood infill.
I have only seen this trade mark on a Spear & Jackson tenon saw once before, I gave it to my friend Henry.
My next plane is a miniature mitre plane with a steel base.
Where I got this rusty old saw by Badger, I have no idea, but it should make an interesting plane as Badger planes, and I assume it's by the same maker, are very rare and I've never seen another tenon saw by him.
The plane is going to have a slight skew mouth, Steel bridge and a Bronze sole.
I intend to give it cupid bow side decoration, but I haven't got that far yet.
The plane is now finished, Sarah had to remind me to put the cuoid bow decoration on the side as I had forgotton to do it.
I am using a Ward dovetailed saw to make a tiny mitre plane. I have never seen one before. It will have a steel bridge, front and sole.
Note the skew mouth.
Mark Bennett from The Woodlark sent me a beautiful slither of Burr Boxwood, it measured about 6" long x 2" wide x 3/8" thick, such a small piece of wood but the best bit of Boxwood I have ever seen. It enabled me to infill this tiny mitre plane.
The wedge thickness is the same as the piece of wood, the front infill I had to glue 2 pieces together and I put in a tiny screw as well from underneath. Would believe it the piece of Boxwood was so hard I had difficulty drilling it for the screw, this was a first. When I came to sneck the iron with 2 tiny rivets, the same drill bit bored through the steel with no difficulty.
The last procedure is to put 2 tiny cupid bows either side of the wedge.
This shows the completed plane with the cupid bow feature.
The plane measures 3 3/8" x 7/8" it has a skew mouth which I have never done before on such a tiny plane. And the little bit of Burr Boxwood just finishes it off, thank you Mark.
Although it is very cold in my shed, I thought I would start on a plane, as I'm fed up hanging about . It is going to be made out of a tenon saw by I. Sorby. I have never seen such a large I. Sorby mark on a tenon saw before.
Spent 1 hour on it today (too cold) and this is as far as I have got. It's starting to look like a plane.
The weather was a bit warmer today. I have peened and part filed the dovetails.
These are the 2 pieces of Boxwood I am going to infill the plane with, cutting out the shakes.
The front and rear infill fitted. I have raised the heel infill, this is not traditional just my own idea.
The 2 pieces of Boxwood that I have chosen both have knots in them. Normally when you make something in wood you try to avoid the knots. I actually find knots in Boxwood very acceptable, there is one in the front infill and one in the wedge.
I have decided to reshape the wedge, hance the pencil lines.
The plane is finished and soaking in raw linseed oil. I forgot to take a picture so that will come later.
I finished the plane today.
The front and rear infill fitted. I have raised the heel infill, this is not traditional just my own idea.
This plane will be all Bronze and probably have a Rosewood infill.
The dovetails on the side and sole have been peened ready for the infill.
The front and rear infill have been shaped and stuck into the body of the plane. An old wedge and iron have been put in to hold everything in place during the drying period.
I have cut and part shaped the Rosewood wedge.
I am still using the Rosewood given to me by Richard Arnold, if you remember it was difficult to saw and it still is. But what beautiful dark brown Rosewood. I will probably get 15 to 20 infill's out of it. Thanks Richard.
I infilled the plane before I cleaned off the outside. This enables you, that once the infill is set in place you can go over the peening lightly, just to make sure nothing has moved.
This plane worked first time which is a relief because they don't always. It is now finished.
I have started on another plane out of a tenon saw by Garlick. The Garlick mark will be around the heel but not quite central, you may wonder why. The reason being, further down the brass back there is a trade mark of a Lynx and if I was to centralize, the bridge would go straight through the image of the Lynx.
Opposite the Lynx on the other side I have stamped an anchor, this is just to balance up the two sides, again just missing the bridge.
Notice how far back the mouth is from the front.
This is the thinnest Brass I have used out of a tenon saw, normally they are 1/8" thick, but this is under. The Brass appears to be very strong.
The finished plane with Ebony infill and iron by Ibbotsion.
