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Re: Tools: cutting centerlines
By:Brian Nystrom
Date: 12/9/2004, 10:51 am
In Response To: Tools: cutting centerlines *Pic* (Rod Tait, Orca Boats)

It looks like you've made a rabbet plane with an intergral fence. Good thinking. A bit wider body would allow you to use both edges of the blade, permitting planing in either direction. That would help to minimize tearout when the grain changes direction. This idea looks good enough to justify having it's own blade, so you don't have to keep setting up and disassembling it and your block plane.

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Tools: cutting centerlines *Pic*
Rod Tait, Orca Boats -- 12/8/2004, 10:43 pm
Re: Tools: cutting centerlines?
Bill T. -- 12/9/2004, 5:24 pm
Re: Tools: cutting centerlines?
John K -- 12/9/2004, 9:38 pm
Re: Tools: cutting centerlines
John K -- 12/9/2004, 4:33 pm
Re: Tools: cutting centerlines
Brian Nystrom -- 12/9/2004, 10:51 am
Very clever
John Caldeira -- 12/9/2004, 7:55 am
Re: Tools: cutting centerlines
Dave -- 12/9/2004, 2:37 am
Re: Tools: cutting centerlines
Glen Smith -- 12/8/2004, 11:19 pm