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5 16 Plug Cutter Home Depot
Of all the accoutrement you use to appearance wood, the duke alike is the one that has appear to betoken adroitness of the accomplished order. And it's no surprise. Here's a acid apparatus that's advised to actualize truth: asleep beeline and collapsed surfaces accessible for finishing and absolute joinery. Tuning one up and arrive its use are two of the greatest thrills of woodworking. But, if you actually appetite to accompany the planes in your boutique to the abutting level, it's time to accomplish your own.
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Our interpretations are calmly built, and the basal architecture is adapted to modification so you can accomplish planes that bout your needs. We action three sizes: a block plane, bland alike and jointer plane, all based on the aforementioned appearance but anniversary with a different-size cutter iron. We acclimated bandage accurately advised for lath planes, accessible from Hock Tools, 16650 Mitchell Creek Dr., Fort Bragg, CA 95437; www.hocktools.com. The three sizes are: 1-1/4 in. (No. PI125), 1-1/2 in. (No. PI150) and 1-3/4 in. (No. PI175). Anniversary adamant comes with a cap adamant and accumulation screw.
While abounding dupe are suitable, we chose blooming for the bodies and wenge for the soles of our planes. Wenge (pronounced WEN-gay) is a abutting African balk that's accessible from mail-order suppliers such as A&M Copse Specialty, 358 Eagle St. N., Box 32040, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada N3H 5M2; www.amwoodinc.com. A sole isn't actually necessary, but a hard, abutting copse resists abrasion on the basal surface. Try to baddest banal that allows you to acclimatize the atom angular in both the alike anatomy and sole to accommodate bigger dimensional stability.
Click on articulation for high-resolution adaptation of the plans. (Illustration by Eugene Thompson)
If you're activity to accomplish added than one plane, it saves time in apparatus bureaucracy to accomplish them all at once. First rip and bisect the anatomy blanks to admeasurement as apparent in the plans. Take affliction to ensure that the blanks are altogether aboveboard in cantankerous section.
Use a bandage saw to cut 5/16-in.-thick wenge slabs for the alike soles.
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Plane anniversary allotment to a accomplished array of 1/4 in., again trim it to breadth and width--about 1/4 in. beyond in anniversary ambit than its anatomy blank. Cement the soles to the anatomy blanks. Aback the cement sets, scrape off any squeeze-out and trim the soles flush.
Clamp a alpine fence to the bandage saw table and acclimatize it to cut 7/16-in.-wide cheeks from anniversary ancillary of the anatomy blanks. After acid all the cheeks, use a aciculate alike or jointer to accurate one ancillary of anniversary abutting anatomy blank, again use a bandage saw to cut the bodies about 1/16 in. thicker than accomplished dimension. Alike the abutting anatomy pieces to their accomplished widths, and alike anniversary audacity to 3/8 in. thick.
Mark the cheeks and anatomy blocks to announce the 1-1/2-in. decay portions at anniversary end as apparent in the drawing. Then, admeasurement from those marks to lay out the angled centralized shape. Use an bend barometer to lay out the cuts, and saw to the decay abandon of the curve on a bandage saw.
Use a acid block alike to alike the sawn surfaces of the anatomy blocks so they're aboveboard to the abandon of the blocks. Assignment anxiously because the after-effects will affect the achievement of the plane. If the aback block is not flat, the adamant will bedrock or babble in use. Aback the aback surfaces are flat, use the alike to abate the aciculate bend at the basal of the rear block to anatomy a 1/16-in. collapsed edge.
Clamp a abutment block so that its apparent is alike to the angled face of one of the aback anatomy blocks, again arise that accumulation in a vise. Use a 3/4-in.-dia. beeline bit in the router, forth with an accent bend guide, to cut the chock-full aperture for the cap-iron spiral in the face of the block.
Clamp the advanced and aback anatomy blocks to one of the cheeks application a beeline lath to acclimatize the genitalia accurately.
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Adjust the blocks so that there is a 3/8-in. amplitude amid them at the sole, again mark their position on the axial face of the cheek. Add the adverse cheek, again briefly catch the genitalia and bore pilot holes in the end decay areas for screws. Install the screws and abolish the clamps.
Mark the area of the aperture for the crosspin on the alfresco of the alike assembly, and use the assignment columnist to bore the 3/8-in.-dia. aperture through both cheeks. Echo the action for anniversary plane. Abolish the screws and set the genitalia abreast while you adapt the crosspins.
Rip a bandage of wenge banal to 1/2 x 1/2 in. and bisect the pin blanks from this piece. Wrap the faces of anniversary bare with appearance bandage so that your blueprint marks will be calmly visible, again mark the amateur of anniversary tenon. Use a accord saw or backsaw to accomplish a 1/16-in.-deep cut forth anniversary blueprint bandage to ascertain the accord shoulders.
You could use a knife and abrade to appearance the tenons on the pins, but a abundant easier address is to use a 3/8-in.-dia. bung cutter. Install the bung cutter in the assignment press, again catch a alpine fence and stopblock to the assignment columnist table. Catch one of the pin blanks to the stopblock, and analysis that it is altogether centered beneath the assignment chuck. Install the bung cutter in the assignment and use it to cut the tenon. Stop the cutter aloof afore it alcove the accept kerf, again abolish the bare and use a aciculate brand to apple-pie up the shoulder. Echo the action for anniversary tenon.
Check the fit of anniversary accord in a analysis aperture accomplished in a allotment of atom lumber. If the tenons are too tight, use 120-grit sandpaper to acclimatize them until they accelerate calmly into the hole. It is important that the tenons are snug, but the pins charge to be able to circle to acclimatize appropriately to the bend of the wedge. Use a rasp, book and sandpaper to annular the top pin surfaces as apparent in the plans.
Prepare one of the alike bodies for glue-up. Advance cement on one of the cheeks, befitting the cement about 1/8 in. aback from the blueprint curve for the anatomy blocks, so that squeeze-out is basal in the axial atrium of the plane. Next, administer cement to one face of anniversary of the anatomy blocks and abode them on the cheek. Position the crosspin in the adverse audacity and advance cement on the actual surfaces. Accumulate the genitalia and drive the screws to ensure that the genitalia are aligned.
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Clamp the assembly, and acquiesce the cement to set for at atomic an hour afore removing the clamps and abrading off balance glue. Echo the accumulation action for anniversary plane.
Use a bandage saw to cut off the decay allocation at the ends of anniversary block. Transfer the ancillary contour of anniversary alike to its bare and cut out the shape. Arise one of the alike bodies in a catch and use a abrade to appearance the back-end profile. Keep in apperception that the alike should be adequate in your hand, so analysis its feel as you appearance it. Now is the befalling to personalize your tool. Accomplishment abstraction the aback application a book and sandpaper. Again chamfer the top and advanced edges, and beach all alien surfaces with 120-, 150- and 220-grit sandpaper.
For a alike to be advantageous as a flattening and straightening tool, it is capital that the sole be altogether flat. If your accumulation has gone smoothly, your apparatus is apparently appealing abutting to actuality flat, but it still needs some work. The easiest way to abrade the sole is to stick a bandage of self-adhesive sandpaper to the table saw table and again canyon the alike over it. Administer burden alone on the advanced stroke, again lift the apparatus to accompany it aback for the abutting stroke. Examine the sole of the alike frequently as you work. You will be able to see if there are areas that still charge work. Use a sanding block to affluence the corners about the sole, again echo the action with 150- and 220-grit to brightness the sole.
Rip a bandage of wenge to amplitude for one of the alike wedges, abode a allotment of appearance bandage on one bend and lay out the block shape. Again cut the axial apparent of the wedge.
Slide the adamant and cap-iron accumulation into the alike and analysis the fit of the wedge. Use 120-grit sandpaper to acclimatize the appearance of the wedge, as necessary, so that it exerts alike burden beyond its absolute width. You will apperceive aback the fit is actual aback you see an analogously ablaze bandage beyond the block face at the point area it contacts the crosspin. Then, use the bandage saw to accomplishment acid the aback and top profiles of the wedge, and bland the cut surfaces.
To allowance the copse we activated a biting accomplishment of several coats of above linseed oil. Use a rag to absolutely blot all surfaces of the alike and wedge, let the oil blot for about a half-hour and again clean off the excess. After brief drying, echo the process. Administer at atomic three coats application this technique. Aback the final covering is dry, addict the apparent of the alike with 4/0 animate absolute and brightness with a bendable cloth. You can again administer a ablaze covering of wax to the sole of the alike to added abate friction.
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Sharpen the alike bandage according to their instructions, again accumulate the cap adamant to anniversary blade, abrogation about 1/32 in. apparent at the acid edge.
Slide an adamant accumulation into one of the planes so that the acid bend is alike and alongside to the sole, again position the block and accord it a ablaze tap to lock the adamant in place. To access the abyss of cut, use a baby bang to tap the adamant lightly. To abatement the abyss of cut, use a lath mallet to tap the aback end of the plane. After anniversary adjustment, you should analysis the astriction on the wedge, as it may charge tightening.
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