Reccomend a rebater.

[Fat ferret]

Hello lads and lasses. Been making doors and windows lately and have been cutting all the rebates with my record 50 plough plane. I made it a 14" fence from a piece of door stop and it works surprisingly well for 3/4 x 1/2" rebates but it's a bit uncomfortable after a while.

I would get a dedicated rebater but not sure what to go for. My jack plane is a woody so I'm open to one of the wooden rebates but can't see how to use them as the ones I've seen don't have fences. How do they work?

Same goes for the expensive metal jobs, no fence to adjust the size of my rebate.

I only want to cut small rebates usually 3/4 x 1/2" so whats the best way, do you have to pin something to the work piece as a fence or what? I can manage with my record 50 but it doesn't seem quite the tool for the job. Lots more doors and windows to go.

 

[Jacob]

I moved this to the other thread

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[bugbear]

Hello lads and lasses. Been making doors and windows lately and have been cutting all the rebates with my record 50 plough plane. I made it a 14" fence from a piece of door stop and it works surprisingly well for 3/4 x 1/2" rebates but it's a bit uncomfortable after a while.

I would get a dedicated rebater but not sure what to go for. My jack plane is a woody so I'm open to one of the wooden rebates but can't see how to use them as the ones I've seen don't have fences. How do they work?

Same goes for the expensive metal jobs, no fence to adjust the size of my rebate.

I only want to cut small rebates usually 3/4 x 1/2" so whats the best way, do you have to pin something to the work piece as a fence or what? I can manage with my record 50 but it doesn't seem quite the tool for the job. Lots more doors and windows to go.

The "classic" wooden plane for this is the moving fillister, with both fence and depth stop to control the size of the rebate.

http://www.popularwoodworking.com/techn ... -fillister

Old ones go for 15-30 quid from dealers. Check carefully before you buy; these were workhorse planes, so are prone to wear, damage, and missing parts.

BugBear