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Muina

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I'm thinking of trying my hand at making a panel raising plane but I really don't know where to start. I found a really old one in a museum so I took a couple of pictures:

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So does anyone know of any buildalongs or something? I've searched google so many times I've lost count, but I can't find a thing apart from forum posts which don't really help much.

I'm guessing it's not going to be as bad as it looks but it's a really daunting thing considering I've never really done anything as complex before lol

Thanks a million for any replies

Anthony
 
I made one last autumn. For my own use. It looks mush like the one pictured but has a fixed depth stop and a nicker for end grain work and a front horn. I had no drawings so I made it mostly by eye.

Feel free to ask questions.
 
Thanks for the replies :)

I had a little closer look, it seems to me that it's just a skewed rebate plane with a depth stop and adjustable fence. I was going to add a nicker, and at first was going to try a raising and fielding plane but the angled iron looks a little too complex for my first one :p

Does it really matter that much about the precise angles of skew and the angles of the sole? Surely the skew wouldn't matter that much because it's just to help stop tearout, and the angle of the sole wouldn't matter because the human error's going to change slightly (maybe by 5 deg) every time you use the plane?

Thanks

Anthony
 
I wonder whether these panel raisers' produce the parallel tongue wot goes into the frame groove? It looks like Alf's rather natty little pane doesn't, but it's difficult to tell from the pic. The parallel tongue is certainly a feature on panel raising cutters that can be fitted into a router - Rob
 
Hello Anthony, I haven't put my mind to making one, yet ... (it's only a matter of time I'm sure) but I remembered an episode o of the Woodwright's Shop when Roy Underhill looked at some German tools.

http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/video/2700/2710.html

Though it's not as much as I remember.... the panel raiser is featured between 8.09 and 8.36 :roll: but we do get to see the shape of the beast in that short time.

And I found a makers' article here.

http://www.threeplanes.net/PanelRaiser.html
 
woodbloke":3umus3k9 said:
I wonder whether these panel raisers' produce the parallel tongue wot goes into the frame groove? It looks like Alf's rather natty little pane doesn't, but it's difficult to tell from the pic.
Yeah, it does. It's the seamless blending of profile into tongue without five hours of sweated labour that's deceived you, Rob. :wink:

Anthony, you have a PM, btw.
 
I was looking at some the other day - probably in Salaman?
The hardest part is probably getting the blade shape correct - have a word with Philly?

Rod
 
Alf":10a18h8p said:
Yeah, it does. It's the seamless blending of profile into tongue without five hours of sweated labour that's deceived you, Rob. :wink:

Anthony, you have a PM, btw.
Ah, yebut Alf, in my panel it deliberately t'weren't blended :lol: so there's a distinct crisp line twixt the tongue and bevel. More fool me, which is why it took the time it did :oops: - Rob
 
Thanks everyone, I've decided I'm getting nowhere pondering over it (although I do say it's always best to plan something out before starting it, even if you do end up doing it completely different) so I'm just going to go for it, if it goes wrong then I've learned a way NOT to do it :)

I'm thinking about trying something out on this build too, glueing two standard irons together to make a thicker one? Effectively this is all the chipbreaker does so I don't see why it wouldn't work.

I'm gonna post pictures along the way so nobody need ever search so meticulously again :)

Oh and by the way, I love Roy Underhill! I want to try making his Roubo bench when I can afford the timber, hopefully using Brazilian Rosewood and Madagascan Ebony with the frame from Kingwood :p

Thanks again everyone

Anthony
 
This is mine:

Bed angle 45 degrees and skew angle 75 degrees. The nicker is missing on the picture....but it will soon be back from a hobby-blacksmith who does a better job of hardening than I do.
 

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