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I watched an awesome video last night about a man who transformed an old Stanley Woodworker's Hand Plane into an instrument of accuracy.
heres a link to the long, but extremely visually informative, video.
After viewing this video, i thought i'd put my emerging scraping skills to the test.
This project i'm about to embark upon is meant to prove that a man can do anything he sets his mind to,
even against probability.
I went to HF and purchased a #33 Hand Plane-
the PP was $9.99 less my 20% off Super Coupon brought it down to $7.99.
i also got a 4" magnetic bowl ,for hex nuts or other iron bearing materials,thrown in free with a coupon!!
it normally sells for 2.99 regularly!
less than 10 bucks 2 items
I have no interest in wood working, it's way too aggravating for me.
I break and/or splinter the mightiest of woods. Even Apitong fears me...
I'm a metal guy through and through. i'm way too heavy handed to work with stuff i can't weld back together.
I got the plane to test my skills as a scraper, and because it was a really cheap scraping victim.
i knew the plane would be less than precision upon removal from the box, but that really was the intention.
i wanted the plane to require some work, to test my learned skills- a hill to climb as it were.
as you can see i was not disappointed in the challenge that i asked for-
after a rubbing on my surface plate, it was woefully apparent that this plane was only touching on 3 1/2 points.
(sorry for the poor quality/inverted picture- i hadn't planned the photography out very well)
An initial scraping provided instant contact on 4 points
there is an estimated .004" hollow running down the center of the plane.
i didn't think to grab feeler gages from my shop toolbox- [DUH](I'm working in the home shop)
a few more scraping cycles lead to...
at last contact on the nose and a smudge rubbed onto the heel of the plane!!!
A few more cycles,
greater contact of heel and nose,
Now we are getting somewhere.
there are contact points emerging all across the planes face.
the plane is starting to sound differently as i rub my hands on it.
almost like low volume nails on a chalkboard, but not in the teeth clinching way
Scraped metal has a different sound about it, it slides & feels differently than ground or extruded metals.
if you have ever laid your hands on a scraped item, i believe you'd agree.
a few more scraping cycles produced:
contact for about 65% of the surface that needs to have contact.
there is still a low spot just a bit south of where the planer blade protrudes.
there was great improvement in support points.
I have a few more cycles to get it to where i find it to be acceptable.
this hand plane is almost flat to .0001", the accuracy of my surface plate.
i'll post more pictures as the task continues...
heres a link to the long, but extremely visually informative, video.
After viewing this video, i thought i'd put my emerging scraping skills to the test.
This project i'm about to embark upon is meant to prove that a man can do anything he sets his mind to,
even against probability.
I went to HF and purchased a #33 Hand Plane-
the PP was $9.99 less my 20% off Super Coupon brought it down to $7.99.
i also got a 4" magnetic bowl ,for hex nuts or other iron bearing materials,thrown in free with a coupon!!
it normally sells for 2.99 regularly!
less than 10 bucks 2 items
I have no interest in wood working, it's way too aggravating for me.
I break and/or splinter the mightiest of woods. Even Apitong fears me...
I'm a metal guy through and through. i'm way too heavy handed to work with stuff i can't weld back together.
I got the plane to test my skills as a scraper, and because it was a really cheap scraping victim.
i knew the plane would be less than precision upon removal from the box, but that really was the intention.
i wanted the plane to require some work, to test my learned skills- a hill to climb as it were.
as you can see i was not disappointed in the challenge that i asked for-
after a rubbing on my surface plate, it was woefully apparent that this plane was only touching on 3 1/2 points.
(sorry for the poor quality/inverted picture- i hadn't planned the photography out very well)
An initial scraping provided instant contact on 4 points
there is an estimated .004" hollow running down the center of the plane.
i didn't think to grab feeler gages from my shop toolbox- [DUH](I'm working in the home shop)
a few more scraping cycles lead to...
at last contact on the nose and a smudge rubbed onto the heel of the plane!!!
A few more cycles,
greater contact of heel and nose,
Now we are getting somewhere.
there are contact points emerging all across the planes face.
the plane is starting to sound differently as i rub my hands on it.
almost like low volume nails on a chalkboard, but not in the teeth clinching way
Scraped metal has a different sound about it, it slides & feels differently than ground or extruded metals.
if you have ever laid your hands on a scraped item, i believe you'd agree.
a few more scraping cycles produced:
contact for about 65% of the surface that needs to have contact.
there is still a low spot just a bit south of where the planer blade protrudes.
there was great improvement in support points.
I have a few more cycles to get it to where i find it to be acceptable.
this hand plane is almost flat to .0001", the accuracy of my surface plate.
i'll post more pictures as the task continues...
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