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Scratch stock
By:Pete Rudie
Date: 3/15/1999, 12:06 pm
In Response To: How to build a finishing plane (Shawn Baker)

On the same subject, and while you're poking around in the magazine racks, check out Fine Woodworking No. 134, Feb. '99. On page 42 there is an illustrated bit on how to make a shop-built scratch stock, a tool like a molding plane that works like a cabinet scraper, and can be made from shop scraps and a piece of hacksaw blade. I made a variant of it to shape my laminated coaming ring. It has noncutting guides that ride on the top and outer edge of the ring, and it shapes the top and bottom edges at the same time. Getting into that corner under the coaming ring is pretty tough with most tools, but this one makes it easy.

Messages In This Thread

How to build a finishing plane
Shawn Baker -- 3/15/1999, 12:55 am
Scratch stock
Pete Rudie -- 3/15/1999, 12:06 pm
Re: How to build a finishing plane
Brian T. Cunningham -- 3/15/1999, 8:59 am
Re: How to build a finishing plane
Geard Dolmans -- 3/15/1999, 3:05 pm
Re: How to build a finishing plane
Shawn Baker -- 3/15/1999, 4:33 pm
Re: How to build a finishing plane
Gerard Dolmans -- 3/15/1999, 5:19 pm
Re: How to build a finishing plane
Jerry Weinraub -- 3/15/1999, 7:13 pm
Handmade block plane
Shawn Baker -- 3/16/1999, 10:14 am
Re: How to build a finishing plane
Shawn Baker -- 3/15/1999, 5:49 pm