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I am designing a rabbet plane, that will also make spills as I work.
Spills are the nifty little spirals of wood. A rabbet of course is a plane that can cut right into the edge of a corner. My goal is to have a left and right handed spill rabbet with adjustable fences. But first I needed to test my designs. I recently made a Radius Cutter/Scribe. I love it, it is perfect, I use is for all sorts of things now, including measurements. That said, I need another, the first one does not make a circle less than 2.25 inches across. So far, here is what I have made:
I took about 20 minutes and tested what a pencil shave can do. Sweet little tool, made with one of the cutters from a pencil sharpener. Here, I am pushing it into some pine, On the left is cut with the grain in pine stopped to show a curl or spill. On the [...] I have been wanting one of these for about three years. I finally made one! This was made from one of the cutters in an old broken pencil sharpener. It was a bit dull so I sharpened the cutter using the ancient method of soaking it in vinegar. Now it is nice and [...] |
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