Tuesday, October 20, 2009

New Tool


I've been using my 4" rotary sander to make my channels lately, but it is noisy and dusty, so I though I'd make a hollowing plane.  I found some white oak in the rafters and roughed out the plane in about an hour.  I had an old orphaned iron i'd been using as a scraper, so I reshaped it with a slight radius and put an edge on it. 

After some finishing, it looked like this:

Finished:

Nice!  Even better, it works quietly and  makes no dust.

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