Lee Valley has just introduced a new Veritas plane. From a marketing standpoint I suspect it will capture 100% of the available market, simply because I’ve never seen anything like it before! As money is a bit tight heading into the Christmas season I suspect I’ll just have to stick with my old jack knife. :<)
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=64338&cat=51&ap=1
Regards,
Ron
Edited 11/7/2009 9:42 am ET by RonInOttawa
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Ron,
That is a must have! Of course I now have a gas fireplace and I stopped smoking bout 14 years ago but I think I need one anyway.
Stocking stuffer.
Good for making those little shavings to fill the gap errors in balsa/pine dovetails!
Boiler
I guess I'm missing something. I thought all that was needed to create a spill was a two-year old. ;-)
Ralphie ,
You don't understand , he's not talking about a toxic spill .
" Ralphs jigs feel pretty , so pretty and witty "
top of the day to you
dusty
Ralph,
If a fellow falls on one of these tools could he spill his guts?
Ray
That's entirely possible.Which raises another interesting question. Has anyone ever seen a gut wrench?
The medical part of L-V is probably developing the Quintessential version as we speak
Ralph:I have definitely seen a gut wrench and I'm preparing to see another as I'm about to have my second hernia repair. I still use a wood burning fireplace. Adding that plane to my fire starting system would surely impress friends and neighbors.Jim
I fondled one of the new spill planes today. Definitely a solid piece of gear with foot on the front to act like a bench hook for holding it in place during use. Well finished and a SHARP blade! RonAs God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
-Arthur Carlson
Ron:Fondled? Try not to excite me.Jim
A little stimulation is a good thing, even if it only brings back memories! :<)Regards,RonAs God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
-Arthur Carlson
Rob Lee sent me one of the spill planes as a gift. I have been playing with it. The thought occurred to me that it could be converted into an edge jointer. Add a longer bed with a decent fence. Now push your board across the blade. What do you think?
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Regards from Perth
Derek
hey derek,ok, i'll bite. so i am picturing this upside down, very sharp plane with a fence set at 90 degrees to the sole.
if the board were wide and long and a hard wood, i can imagine having difficulty preventing it from chattering as it is pushed over the blade. by the same token it seems that the combo of the stationary, fixed plane and a solid fence and if the wood were not too large or hard...hmm, maybe you're on to something.then again if i hit the post button i might get ripped a new booty-hole by more than one ww'er what loves his planes as is.
eef
Eef,
Cooper's long jointer.
Ray
hey ray,googled it and except for me 'n derek's brilliant fence idea it looks like you're a step ahead and it's all been done before.
what about that fence, though...
eef
Eef,
Real woodworkers (coopers) don't need no steenkeeng fences. Since barrels are wider in the middle than on either end, the angles of their staves' edges are constantly changing along their lengths (as the radii of the circle describing their shape), and these changing angles themselves vary from one stave to another, as the staves are wider or narrower than their brethren. To make such cuts "by random" as the old timer used to say, and end up with a watertight container boggles the mind. If you didn't see it done, you'd think it impossible.
I have seen one or two coopers' jointers with narrow fences (just a strip of wood) tacked to the sole, just, I suppose, to keep the stave from skating clear off the side of the plane as it is pushed along the sole and waggled side to side.
Ray
ray,
good ole derek's doin' his best as usual...
so much for the fence idea. but ya gotta hand it to them good old boys back when, people have done very useful and smart ways of getting things done, for quite some time. i always enjoy your perception and take on that.
eef
Hey Ray
After seeing some of the spill stuff here I thought of an old Roy Underhill episode with him making curly spills. I went back and found my old wr shop episode with the old cooper (laconte) using the inclined stave joiner. I've always wanted to make one. I have lots of old wide plane irons.. I just don't feel like grinding away to get a good skew angle.
One day maybe.
A while back I put out an idea to have all of the video information the knotters have on shelves and pool the titles of books and videos. It could be a great swap or loan system if we had a little support from the FWW staff. Maybe?
I have something like 25 Woodwright episodes stuck in a box(vhs) that I can easily convert to dvd. Not looking to sell or bootleg.. just loan type stuff.
later
dan
Hi eef
I must admit that I cheated here, as I have done this before :)
Picture of Veritas BU Jointer with side fence ...
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Regards from Perth
Derek
hey derek,it COMES with a side fence? you're in the right business, where do find all this stuff?
eef
Right idea , wrong application: you should have been shaving biltong ....Philip Marcou
Hi Philip
Now there's an idea! (For those that do not know, biltong is akin to jerky).
Do you reckon that I can keep the same cutting angle for both game and beef? :)
Regards from Perth
Derek
Depends.....Philip Marcou
Ahh, I see what you mean.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Ralph,
Gut wrenches are obsolete, since bellies are easily manipulated by simply pressing the new fangled, digital, belly button.
Ray
I think you may have identified the need for a SpillStop.
I think you are OK if you only make cheese curls with it, and eat the cheese immediately.
Ben,
Spill-Stop. Could use one of those for my coffee cup.
Ray
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