Got my new toy yesterday

[Keith Newell]

I found a local guy here in Portland area that makes a fantastic plane. I just tried it out and it works so sweet I had to stop myself before I got the wood to small for a mandolin. Here is a link to his web-site Knight tools
Just thought I'd plug his products because I'm pretty happy with this one.
Keith

[Keith Newell]

and yes you can read a newspaper right through the shavings
Keith

[PaulD]

Congratulations! Steve Knight does beautiful work. I've considered buying one of his scrub planes for roughing down wood. I know he likes to work in purpleheart which is what the outside edges of you plane look like... do you know what the center wood is? I'm sure you'll get a lifetime's enjoyment out of that plane!

Thanks for sharing,
Paul Doubek

[sunburst]

Cool!
I know what you mean. It's hard to stop when a plane is really working well.

[sunburst]

I checked out the web site.
Does anybody know where I can get an inchannel (sp) gouge? I had one made, but was very dissapointed in the way it was ground. I've been re-grinding it, but I'm not there yet. And besides, I paid money for it...why am I having to re-grind it to get it to work?

[PaulD]

Hey John... what was wrong with the one you had made? What width/sweep are you looking for? Too bad you didn't ask a couple months ago... the local WoodCraft was clearing out a bunch of Henry Taylor carving tools and I had talked them down a little lower and then bought too much stuff! Depending on the size, I may have something I can part with.

pd

Oh yeah... I also meant to say it's "incannel."

[sunburst]

Thanks, Paul.

The one I had made was rounded into the edge on the back side. I couldn't pare with it.
After re-grinding the back straight, now the bevel is too low and fragile, so I need to re-grind that too.

I want it to use setting mandolin necks, to pare away the wood next to the dovetail where the inside curve is, so I need somewhere around a 1" radius. I don't know what sweep that is, I think pattern making gouges used radius rather than sweep. 1/2" to 5/8" wide should be fine, fishtail would be ideal.

[PaulD]

I think I've got some old Buck Bros or similar incannel gouges that are tight radius like that, but not fishtail. I'll see if I have any duplicates... I bought a coffee can of gouges and chisels a dozen years ago from an antique tool dealer. The hitch is that you might have to make your own handle!

pd