Planing board
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 3:41 pm
Hi all,
Life intervened and I had to take a break from the current joinery project for a bit. Getting back into things now, I warmed up with work on an ongoing project: a larger Japanese planing board, which incorporates some Western workholding elements. Here, with one of two planing stops finished and installed, visible at the left:
The height adustable planing stops are inspired by those on a smaller planing board used by Kiyoto Takana, a Japanese luthier, in some of his videos. You can just make out some of the layout marks for the second stop, in line with the first, on the far side of the board.
The board is laminated doug fir, about 12 3/4" x 70", with 3/4" dog holes and a Veritas inset vise in line with the left planing stop. The feet and stop are hard maple. The male sliding dovetails on the feet were cut with a custom-ground tablesaw blade (14°), which worked wonderfully. The female side was hand-cut using a saw guide with an azebiki and a kataba, cleared by chisel, and finished to depth with a router plane. I can now definitely say that it's time to spring for a (power) router.
I'm really curious how well the hybrid workholding is going to play out. Time will tell...
Life intervened and I had to take a break from the current joinery project for a bit. Getting back into things now, I warmed up with work on an ongoing project: a larger Japanese planing board, which incorporates some Western workholding elements. Here, with one of two planing stops finished and installed, visible at the left:
The height adustable planing stops are inspired by those on a smaller planing board used by Kiyoto Takana, a Japanese luthier, in some of his videos. You can just make out some of the layout marks for the second stop, in line with the first, on the far side of the board.
The board is laminated doug fir, about 12 3/4" x 70", with 3/4" dog holes and a Veritas inset vise in line with the left planing stop. The feet and stop are hard maple. The male sliding dovetails on the feet were cut with a custom-ground tablesaw blade (14°), which worked wonderfully. The female side was hand-cut using a saw guide with an azebiki and a kataba, cleared by chisel, and finished to depth with a router plane. I can now definitely say that it's time to spring for a (power) router.
I'm really curious how well the hybrid workholding is going to play out. Time will tell...