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   jazzdogg | Jul 21, 2005 03:34am | #1

   The folks at Lie-Nielsen are friendly and easy to deal with; give them a call.

   -Jazzdogg-

   "Don't ask youself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Gil Bailie

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   Glaucon | Jul 21, 2005 04:33am | #2

   I have the smaller version of the plane that I also received as a gift.  I would not say that it is the most useful tool in my shop, but I have found it to be pretty good at a few things.  Properly tuned, I have used it to clean up dovetail assemblies where the pins or tails are just slightly proud.  It is very useful for cleaning up glue squeeze out when I glue up panels, particularly if you unclamp 1-2 hours later and then use the plane.  I have used it to clean up plugs that are proud on some teak furniture.  I use my Stanley #90 for cleaning up rabbets.

   Glaucon

   If you don't think too good, then don't think too much...

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   troys | Jul 21, 2005 05:06am | #3

   I have used it for cleaning up glue like you have. I seem to have more success with a very sharp chisel for tasks like triming dovetails and pins. Oh well I will keep messing with it.
   Troy

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   Elcoholic | Jul 21, 2005 08:09am | #4

   Ditto.John O'Connell - JKO Handcrafted Woodworking

   The more things change ...

   We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized.  I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

   Petronious Arbiter, 210 BC

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   ThreePuttJoe | Jul 22, 2005 04:48am | #5

   I'm glad that you mentioned that, because I have been contemplating picking up the smaller version. There are many tools that should step in front of that for my money, but it seems to be useful with the added "cool tool" factor. I will think a little harder before I purchase. One thing I was thinking, and even thinking of mentioning to the folks at LN...is that this seems to be an application that begs for a skew-angle blade. Am I wrong? would that make it too dangerous?

   Joe

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   JeffHeath | Jul 22, 2005 06:24am | #6

   Troy

   I have the smaller one, and use it all the time, as discussed in the above replies.

   It is terrific for getting into tight spaces, and removing glue.  For flush trimming, I just use a block plane.

   Try to adjust the cut for just the slightest depth, and you'll have better results.

   Jeff

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   VomSorb | Jul 22, 2005 09:04pm | #7

   Old timers cleaned up glue drips (in corners and other funky places) by dipping a chisel in the hot water bath of the glue pot then holding the chisel on the dried glue (hide glue of course) until it liquified and ran onto the chisel.

   Now that we have that little chore out of the way...

   Gotta believe this is a sharpening/bevel angle issue.  My first guess is that  you've honed a secondary bevel at too high an angle but I can't say for sure.

   You're the first person I've ever *met* that owned one of these.  I've gotten along really well without one for years.  I'm thinking EBay or a nice paperweight.

    

    

   
   

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   Edited 7/22/2005 2:06 pm ET by cstan

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   troys | Jul 23, 2005 12:24am | #8

   No secondary bevel, did just use it to take some glue of a panel I just put together, worked well for that but if I have the blade set at all to strong it wants to grab the wood. Cutting on a skew angel helped a lot when cleaning up the excess glue. It is a nicely made tool just like all of their other planes. Thanks
   Troy

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   Glaucon | Jul 23, 2005 12:34am | #9

   Actually, that's a point I'd forgotten to mention- doing the glue clean up at skew angle from the joint is key.Glaucon

   If you don't think too good, then don't think too much...