ear3
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It's not everyday that I need to use my shooting plane, but when I do, there's nothing else that can come through (short of a lifetime of apprentice craftsmanship that I do not have, or perhaps the Bridge City Tools Jointmaker pro, which I also do not have).
Had to recreate some handles for a designer that was installing a kitchen, and who needed exact replicas of the OEM handles in another size not provided by the cabinetmaker to match some other elements of the kitchen. Very basic design consisting of a 1" diameter half cylinder nested on two small, 19/32" square rectangular posts with a corresponding convex radius. The convexity had to be cut into the endgrain with a core box router bit, and since I was working off 3" wide boards, I didn't want to cut it all the way to the edge and lose stability of the workpiece (despite it being clamped to another board to stabilize as I ran it over the router table). So I cut the cover just a little shy of the edge, and then worked it with the shooting plane to the target size. Glue, screw, plug and voila.
Had to recreate some handles for a designer that was installing a kitchen, and who needed exact replicas of the OEM handles in another size not provided by the cabinetmaker to match some other elements of the kitchen. Very basic design consisting of a 1" diameter half cylinder nested on two small, 19/32" square rectangular posts with a corresponding convex radius. The convexity had to be cut into the endgrain with a core box router bit, and since I was working off 3" wide boards, I didn't want to cut it all the way to the edge and lose stability of the workpiece (despite it being clamped to another board to stabilize as I ran it over the router table). So I cut the cover just a little shy of the edge, and then worked it with the shooting plane to the target size. Glue, screw, plug and voila.
