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Re: Tool making
By:John Monfoe
Date: 11/30/2000, 4:45 am
In Response To: Tool making (Eric Schade (shearwater boats))

: Making special tools is a fun part of boat building. I have made specialized
: planes, knives chisels etc for my model work in particular.

: It caan also be useful to modify existing tools. Nick and I use a blockplane
: modified with a convex sole (with a blade gound into a curve) for
: smoothing the inside of kayaks and hollow shapes on the outside near the
: bow and stern.

: have fun--eric

A curved plane-wow! There were episodes on the WOOD WRIGHT on PBS a couple of years ago where they made their own specialized planes. Now I wish I had some of those shows taped.

John

Messages In This Thread

Curved Knife
John Monfoe -- 11/28/2000, 5:50 am
Tool making
Eric Schade (shearwater boats) -- 11/29/2000, 6:10 pm
Re: How much radius
Ted -- 12/2/2000, 10:46 pm
Re: How much radius *Pic*
Eric Schade (shearwater boats) -- 12/4/2000, 7:59 am
That's perfect, thanks! *NM*
Ted -- 12/4/2000, 11:59 am
Re: Tool making
John Monfoe -- 11/30/2000, 4:45 am