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J D Architectural Joinery

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Who produced or produces the best Chamfer plane.

I love getting my LN103 out to de arris my timber, just ran up 200m of skirting and the same again on architraves from beech, but couldn't resist de-arrising it by hand, rather than putting them through the spindle moulder again.
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David,

I have always done it by hand with bench or block plane.

Life gets interesting on long grain, quartered, interlocked timber, where it can be difficult to avoid tearout.

This calls for steeper Effective pitch, definitely not low angle planes.

I am aware of three types of Chamfer planes. Wooden, Stanley and Japanese, and an attatchment for a LV block plane.

There really seems no need for specialised kit unless you routinely use very wide bevels.

Just my thoughts,
best wishes,
David
 
While I generally use a block plane to chamfer fine edges, if the edge is wide, then I use a chamfer plane I designed and built:

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This is Jarrah, has a 15 degree bed, and uses one of two blades, a HA (face grain) and a LA (end grain) in a bevel up configuration. The butterfly knob allows for rapid change of blade depth.

Regards from Perth

Derek
 
Whilst we are on this subject could someone settle an argument for me.
Chamfer, as in CHeese. Or Chamfer as in SHeep?

Roy.
 
David C":2epna9ei said:
David,

I have always done it by hand with bench or block plane.


There really seems no need for specialised kit unless you routinely use very wide bevels.

Just my thoughts,
best wishes,
David

Yeah those stanley ones are pricey, could do with LN doing one :lol: But your right Really you don't need many differing pieces, but it is nice. And if you have a favourite, it will do anything you want it to do. :lol:
 
So I'm not the only one in step as I see our American friends seem to pronounce it as CH.

Roy.
 
I use a Radi-plane chamfering plane, got the rounding over one as well. Fits nicely in the hand. tilgear do them overhere.

Jason
 
J D Architectural Joinery":2b48xjgk said:
could do with LN doing one :lol:

I thought they were doing one? Had a quick look on their website, but nothing. But check out this link.

Cheers

Karl
 
My favorite is an old Preston chamfering spokeshave (just saw one on ebay a day or so ago), works great; but there are plenty of wooden (boxwood is good) chamfering planes, check with Tony Murland (what has happened to his website? has he gone out of business?) or Andy Stephens (http://www.toolbazaar.co.uk/tools.asp) or boot sales/flea markets. And then there are the Japanese versions which work great, too, check out Dieter's (http://www.fine-tools.com/jfasen.htm.

And then there's my old standby used in ancient times: sandpaper, a little swish will do you. :)

Pam
 
Hi,
I recently acquired this chamfer plane:

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but still I have not had time for tune up it.
Someone has one like this? How well they work?

Ciao,
Giuliano :D
 
They can be swines to adjust as the 'stop box' also holds the wedge in place on the ones that I have tried to use.

Roy.
 
Digit":3nqlzfzh said:
They can be swines to adjust as the 'stop box' also holds the wedge in place on the ones that I have tried to use.

Roy.

Sorry, I do not know the word "swines". :oops: :oops: ,
but I can imagine it means like "difficult" or "complicated".
If so, I had the same impression in a first looking to the plane.

Thanks
Ciao,
Giuliano
 
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