Hope this may be of interest to others who, like me, have difficulty planing a good chamfer freehand.
I came by this little unbranded, 110-style block plane and was wondering what I could do with it (other than use it as a paperweight). With a little drilling and tapping, it has turned into quite a useful small chamfer plane.
The fences are built up by laminating 3mm birch ply bases to the triangular hardwood sections; each is secured and adjusted with short M6 flanged bolts seated into four tapped holes in the sole of the plane.
It has only limited capacity - the widest chamfer it will cut is only 6mm. That's because I wasn't careful enough about where I drilled the securing holes, which were placed too near the centre-line of the sole. In retrospect, I could and should have placed them as near to the sides of the plane as possible, which would have allowed chamfers up to 10/12 mm wide.
Still, it's turned into a useful little tool for hardly any effort or expenditure.
Chris
I came by this little unbranded, 110-style block plane and was wondering what I could do with it (other than use it as a paperweight). With a little drilling and tapping, it has turned into quite a useful small chamfer plane.
The fences are built up by laminating 3mm birch ply bases to the triangular hardwood sections; each is secured and adjusted with short M6 flanged bolts seated into four tapped holes in the sole of the plane.
It has only limited capacity - the widest chamfer it will cut is only 6mm. That's because I wasn't careful enough about where I drilled the securing holes, which were placed too near the centre-line of the sole. In retrospect, I could and should have placed them as near to the sides of the plane as possible, which would have allowed chamfers up to 10/12 mm wide.
Still, it's turned into a useful little tool for hardly any effort or expenditure.
Chris
