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Default Plans for making a simple plow plane?


Buy a copy of Making Traditional Wooden Planes by John Whelan.

This is the best book on planemaking I have seen so far, but this is not a
frenzied field of publishing. It provides info on making many types of planes
beyond the basic Krenov style covered in the Finck/Krenov book. Whelan uses b&w
drawings/plans, dark photos plus building comments for around 18 types of
planes, including three plough planes. Starts with a Krenov style plane and
increases in complexity and difficulty from there. I would love to buy a copy
of this book with better illustrations, but it doesn't exist.

I would suggest you have a set of plough cutters, preferably the same maker, or
at least with the same angle on them before you start. There are 2-3 types of
cutters, and you need a different wedge for each one because of the difference
in angles.

You could probably buy a working plough plane with maybe a cutter off the bay
for about $20, even less, or a lot more, depending on what you want. I've found
a few a cheap as a gloatable $6 at fleas. Cutters usually sell separate from
the planes and run from $20-60+ a set.

Amazon claims they have 8 books left in stock as of this posting. Lee Valley
stocks the book also. You'll have to do your own Google search for online
plans. They are out there, along with a couple of very good sites that cover
building other types of traditional planes. Watch the line wrap on this URL:

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Traditi...4421733&sr=1-4

HTH,

Roy


On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:32:12 -0700 (PDT), "William F. Adams )"
wrote:

I'm finding that I'll be needing a plow plane for my next project
(have been making do by cutting dados w/ an assortment of other hand
tools) --- does anyone have plans for such?

It doesn't need to be adjustable (save for depth which is a necessary
part of the functionality?), so should be much simpler than most of
the images I'm seeing of them on-line.

Any guidelines or resources anyone could suggest would be welcome.

Thanks!

William