Fastback Chisel Plane

[Crazyraceguy]

I got to drive a Lamborghini Countach, way back in the day. I was really to young to be messing with such a thing, but it was a wild experience. Of course this was well before modern supercars. To me, it was "the" supercar. However, it is also one of those "never meet your heroes" things too. I wasn't on a racetrack or anything like that, it was just street driving. It was almost bad, I have since driven far better. It was very cramped, which is mostly my fault, too tall. It was stiff, to the point of being rough, heavy in the steering, and virtually impossible to back up. None of those would be important on a track, but city street driving, nope.
Take your average U-haul truck, remove the mirrors, cut the power steering belt, and you're close.

 

[onocoffee]

I got to drive a Lamborghini Countach, way back in the day. I was really to young to be messing with such a thing, but it was a wild experience. Of course this was well before modern supercars. To me, it was "the" supercar. However, it is also one of those "never meet your heroes" things too. I wasn't on a racetrack or anything like that, it was just street driving. It was almost bad, I have since driven far better. It was very cramped, which is mostly my fault, too tall. It was stiff, to the point of being rough, heavy in the steering, and virtually impossible to back up. None of those would be important on a track, but city street driving, nope.
Take your average U-haul truck, remove the mirrors, cut the power steering belt, and you're close.

So true. My old Land Rover service guy also did some exotics and one day he had a Countach in the shop and let me sit in it. I don't know how you were able to drive it. The ideal driver has to be a small Italian guy. I couldn't really fit both feet into the pedal box wearing shoes! And that "rear window"...!

 

[Crazyraceguy]

Yeah @onocoffee it was disappointing to say the least. That ridiculous rocker panel was like the sides of a hospital bed, except you have to climb over it, only to sit "in" a 5 gallon bucket.
The "rear window" as scary as the movie of the same name. Like I said, take a U-haul rental truck, knock the mirrors off and back it through a covered bridge. Realistically, you have to look around, before you get in, and drive by trust.

 

[derekcohen]

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.

That is good work .... but we all want to see shavings!

Regards from Perth

Derek