onocoffee
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While visiting Lie-Nielsen back in October, I got myself a 6mm chisel and the No. 62 plane. I also wanted a chisel plane but rather than spending the $175, I thought it might make for a fun project to make it myself. I bought the blade instead thinking I would use this block of black walnut I had lying around that would be the right thickness to start with.
As we were talking about it, one of my woodworking friends here joked about using the MagSwitch to hold the blade to the handle. I thought it was a clever idea. My initial thoughts were for something simple and round with the blade laying flat to the worksurface. That's about when Derek started posting his planes and man, are those things sweet looking! I liked the Dusenberg-esque feel of his planes and thought an automotive theme might be worth exploring.
This is the finished plane. The walnut turned out to be not as grained as I would have liked and my skills are not quite to Derek's level but it was a fun project that I completed today. A little flavor of American Muscle and the 1966 Ford Mustang Fastback.
As we were talking about it, one of my woodworking friends here joked about using the MagSwitch to hold the blade to the handle. I thought it was a clever idea. My initial thoughts were for something simple and round with the blade laying flat to the worksurface. That's about when Derek started posting his planes and man, are those things sweet looking! I liked the Dusenberg-esque feel of his planes and thought an automotive theme might be worth exploring.
This is the finished plane. The walnut turned out to be not as grained as I would have liked and my skills are not quite to Derek's level but it was a fun project that I completed today. A little flavor of American Muscle and the 1966 Ford Mustang Fastback.
