Setting up a Stanley 45 for glazing bars

[Alan Smith]

Have a thing in my head at the moment about running up some window sashes with hand tools. Have a rather tired Stanley 45 with a nice sharp NOS cutter of the appropriate shape but I'm struggling to figure out the best way to place the fence and the sliding skate. Anyone have any experience of this or can point me to a source of information please.

Thanks

Alan

 

[Trafalgar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RMLkJNAhPY

A Limey to boot....

Run these on LONG, straight-grained stock to maximize your effort and your yield of glazing bars. Chop off the first and last couple inches and you should have very useable material. Make a lot more than you need in case you futz-up the joinery when making the sash itself.

 

[Alan Smith]

Thanks for that! Never thought about looking on YouTube.

I think I'm on the right track and at least my cutter is a lot sharper than that fellows.

 

[Trafalgar]

Really work the flat side of the cutter. You can't get it too flat or too shiny for this kind of work.

 

[Paul Chapman]

Blimey, that bloke's making hard work of it :shock: Either a very blunt cutter or too deep a cut (or both). Have a look at Alf's site - she has some good stuff on boat anchors http://www.cornishworkshop.co.uk/combinationplanes.html

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Trafalgar]

Though ultimately a realistic portrayal of what things might look like just starting out and it brings up a good point --- do get it set up on scrap first -- same species of the bar material you plan on using but perhaps not as perfectly straight grained. If it cuts well on it should be smooth sailing on the live material.

The first setting, the one he thought was too light, was probably the one to run the material with.