Friends:
I just had to cut two 8 ft long 2″ x2.5″ pieces of white oak into “L” shapes by removing a roughly 1″ square section from the entire length of each. It sill be used to make bull noses on a project. I had to use a power saw, because I simply couldn”t think of a practical way to do it by hand other than to spend all day with a rebate plane–which would be tedious and would also waste that good long section of oak that I can use for something else.
Is there a practical way to do this kind of thing with hand tools (other than planing the wood away?
Joe
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Use a plow plane with a 1/8 inch blade.
Paul Dzioba
Joe
Unless you needed a 35 gallon can full of shavings to start fires with, you did it the most efficient way.
Jeff
I agree. Two passes on te table saw with some feather boards positioned to push the stock against the fence and the table throughout the length of the cuts.
That's about what I figured. Tedious and wasteful. I love handtools and the old ways, but sometimes newer tools just simply do it better.
J
Paul's suggestion of a plow with an 1/8" blade is a very quick means to remove the piece you used the TS for.
The 1/8" blade can be set fairly rank to begin with--and most likely set deeper once below the surface depending on the wood, grain direction, etc.
While not as fast as a TS (duh!) it is the quickest (and it is quick) means of creating large rebates.
Take care, Mike
Mike and Paul:
Must admit, my curiosity is piqued. Will ha to look and see if I have a narrow enough blade for my old 46, and in the likely event that I'll look around and see if I can find such a plane and blade.
Any plow capable of holding an 1/8" blade (you can use a wider one at the expense of speed) works very well. You plow from both surfaces, just like the two cuts from a table saw. Where they meet, the waste drops out.
For small work, I use my Record 043. For larger, well, larger plows, lately a Record 050. For lare rebates, like the rebate on the back of the original siding on my house, I can plow a narrow (1/4") groove to define the width (using a good ol' woddie plow) and use my moving fillister (a skew-bladed wood version that works like a Stanley #289) to remove the remainder of the waste.
The reason for the change between two narrow grooves is the width of the rebate, which would entail a very deep plow cut on the one direction. fwiw, it was actually faster than when I tried my table saw due to the length of the stock.
Take care, Mikeback to domestic duties--Merry Christmas...
Mike:
Sounds like fun. I'll have to find the tools and try it.
J
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