Tuesday 14 August 2012

Jointers and Smoothers


This order for a jointer, high angled smoother and dovetail guide was posted to Kansas last week. I've had a run on these two planes recently and with shows at Yandles 8-9th September and European Woodworking 21-22nd September I need to top up my stocks.
The smoother below in Indian rosewood had some nice grain.


Saturday was not a good day for me. In the morning I was cleaning off some excess epoxy from the marking knives with a scalpel and you can guess what came next! I'm not going to show you a picture but the gash to the inside of my left index finger required attention.
We had the neighbours round in the evening and I ate something which disagreed with me, sickness and diarrhoea followed in the night and I spent all day Sunday in bed recovering.


Fully recovered I made a start on the planes. Here are the all the blanks for the two planes, the smoothers have had the Lignum bases glued on and trimmed up.

2 comments:

  1. Hope your finger's better. Konrad Sauer has a post on his blog that makes me wince every time I think of it. You can never be too careful in the workshop. Received one of your Dovetail Guides for my birthday, I love it. Just need to find a project to do it justice.

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    1. Hi David, When you do find a project I'd like to see the result. All the best, David.

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