floats joinery floats our joinery floats are sized with cabinet making and furniture building rather than planemaking in mind floats are traditional tools used to cut flatten and smooth or float the critical surfaces of a wooden plane such as the bedding of the blade the mouth and the wedge abutment they are capable of extremely precise work we have worked with contemporary wooden plane makers clark williams to develop these floats and are very pleased to make them available floats are also useful around the woodshop for lots of jobs besides plane making and if you have never used one you will be amazed at how quickly they will produce an accurate smooth surface try one for flattening chamfering or smoothing flat and curved surfaces floats can cut more aggressively than rasps yet leave a finely finished surface for either exposed work or a glue bond they are also sharpened with a file and hardened and tempered to around rc 50 like a good hand saw made from s-7 tool steel hardened and
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adjustable mouth block planes these iron block planes are 6¼ long with a 1 3/8 x 1 8 thick blade bodies are surface ground flat and square to a tolerance of less than .001 and feature a moveable shoe to allow precise easy control over the mouth opening in front of the blade you can easily adjust the tool to suit the work being done a very fine mouth setting for finishing work and the merest shavings or an ample opening for rank cuts the bronze cap iron is large and comfortable it is tensioned with a 1½ brass spinwheel like our other block planes the blade is adjusted with a captive nut for precise control with minimal backlash blade on the low angle tool is bedded at 12° the standard angle at 20° blades are ground with a 25° flat bevel this tool has an appealing feel in the hand and is a pleasure to use it is versatile of a convenient size and cuts with the authority of 1½ pounds behind every stroke useful for every sort of woodworking job this tool will quickly become a favori
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bench plane blades are shipped with a flat ground 25° bevel for longer edge life in abrasive or hard woods increase the bevel angle up to 30° or 35° this is quickly accomplished by honing a small secondary bevel no 1 bench plane based on the famous stanley no 1 a miniature bench plane 5½ long with a 13/16 x .110 thick blade bronze body only no 1 bench plane $225 replacement blade 35 no 2 bench plane 7½ long with a 15/8 x .125 thick blade although a small bench plane the no 2 is considerably larger than the no 1 and has good heft in the hand body is available in bronze weight 3¼ lbs or cast iron weight 3 lbs bench planes are the workhorses of the shop we make all sizes that stanley did from the tiny no 1 to the huge no 8 this is the first time in many years that this full range has been available from anyone each has its own charm but personal preference plays a large part in choosing the right bench plane for a particular job a beginner needs two basic sizes a smoothing plane
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bench rabbet plane also referred to as a carriage maker s rabbet or jack rabbet plane this plane is the largest rabbet plane made there have been several versions of this tool ours is based on the stanley 10¼ which had not been made since the second world war and had never before been made in the bedrock format it features cross-grain nickers and tilting knobs and handles this tool is stout and has excellent balance the cross-grain nickers cut grain fibers ahead of the blade to produce a clean square vertical cut our nickers are small blades ground dead flush with the sides of the tool easy to sharpen and easy to set to depth or retract also one can adjust the tilt of the handle and knob to either side to get the tool into a large corner cut more easily ductile iron body bronze cap and frog cherry handles 12¾ long with 21/8 x 1/8 thick blade weight 5 lbs bench rabbet plane replacement blade replacement nicker $375 50 8 a-2 steel blades our blades are milled from a-2 tool steel they
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shoulder planes these all-metal shoulder planes are based on record tools which in turn were based on preston models the captive-nut blade adjustment is very positive adjustable mouth and locking screws are large and convenient the mouth adjustment screw is captured in the toe piece and threaded into the body therefore it adjusts the mouth both when turned in and when turned out unlike the originals bodies are cast from ductile iron the lever cap is bronze precisely ground flat and square an essential feature for a shoulder plane the blade is .005 wider than the body bedded at 18° with a 25° bevel bronze shoulder plane this small shoulder plane modeled after a traditional english shoulder plane is a gem the tool is 5½ long with a ½ wide x 1 8 thick blade secured with a wooden wedge cast bronze body filled with cocobolo with a fine set mouth this is an ideal tool for trimming dadoes rabbets and shoulders to fit bronze shoulder plane replacement blade $199 35 side rabbet planes if
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iron miter plane the iron miter plane is based on stanley s no 9 discontinued in 1943 original tools are rare and very expensive the style is well known from 19th-century european and especially english tools going back to some of the very first planes made in western europe since roman times weight about 4½ lbs and solidity make this plane ideal for many planing jobs on straight and end grain its boxy construction is designed specifically for the tool to be used on its side with or without a shooting board see fine woodworking no 106 june 1994 to shoot lengths right angles and of course miters bronze edge planes this plane our first tool is an adaptation of the stanley no 95 it has an integral 90° fence making its primary use squaring the edges of stock with appropriate angle blocks it can produce various angles or widen dadoes and rabbets to depth the fence coupled with a low-angle skewed blade makes these jobs simple and precise working either with or across the grain or on plywoo
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inlay tools chisel planes after making some prototypes of this interesting and unusual plane discontinued by stanley in 1944 it became apparent that a smaller version would be handy so we offer the chisel plane in the original size l0 x 2¼ and a half size 6½ x 1¾ these are the tools steve latta uses in his line and berry inlay work as described in our dvd fundamentals of inlay stringing line berry maple bodies hornbeam shafts the radius cutter has a powder-coated aluminum body re-sharpenable spring steel blades slicing gauge for slicing veneer into thin strips extends out 2 cutter is .020 thick additional slicing blade included slicing gauge left-handed slicing gauge replacement blade $75 75 15 thicknessing gauge for trimming veneer strips to precise thickness cutter is .050 thick large chisel plane replacement blade $199 45 thicknessing gauge replacement blade $65 15 a chisel plane is not meant to function as an ordinary plane because it has no support ahead of the blade howev
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hand saws many people have never had a chance to see what a quality western-style hand saw can do this is unfortunate because a proper hand saw is a joy to use our saw blades are made from polished swedish steel and tempered to rockwell 52 they are durable but easily sharpened with a file we take care to make sure our saw blades are properly sharpened and accurately set saw teeth are set to keep the blade from binding but our saws have a minimum set to make it easier to saw a straight line we carefully hand shape and finish the handles for comfort and every saw is test cut in hardwood before it is shipped solid brass chamfered backs select curly maple handles traditional split nut screws used on open handles carcass saw the carcass saw is used for precise cuts across the grain cutting tenon shoulders and defining the edges of a dado it has 14 points per inch filed crosscut for cutting quickly yet accurately and smoothly blade is .020 thick with a .003 set overall length including ha
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accessories tite-mark marking gauge unique micrometer adjustment makes this marking gauge the handiest and most accurate available steel shaft brass body fixed circular a-2 blade hardened to 58-60 rockwell the blade retracts safely into a recess in the head tite-mark has a 7 shaft tite-mark long has a 9 shaft optional cutters include a set of mortise blades for laying out mortises and a scoring blade may be ordered separately or with the marking gauge as tite-mark iii precisely made by glen-drake toolworks these tools are gems leather tool cases fitted leather cases protect your tools for storage and transportation beautifully made in france visit our website for more details small block plane holster $35 adj mouth block plane holster 40 dovetail saw case 30 carcass saw case 40 dowel plate case 15 blade wallet $45 hand scraper wallet 25 boggs spokeshave case 25 small spokeshave case 20 7-pocket chisel roll 75 extensions and mortise blades one 3 and one 6 extensi
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books taunton s complete illustrated guide to sharpening by thomas lie-nielsen taunton press 2004 hard cover 216 pages sharpening $39.95 christopher schwarz series furniture making techniques vols i and ii by david charlesworth guild of master craftsmen publications ltd softcover 120 pages $17.95 forgotten hand tools 87 minutes coarse medium and fine 65 minutes building furniture with hand planes 65 minutes hand scraping understanding preparing using the ultimate finishing tool 30 minutes $25 25 25 20 a guide to hand tools and methods by david charlesworth $17.95 guild of master craftsman publications ltd 2006 softcover 144 pages making traditional side escapement planes with larry williams 180 minutes $40 very little has been documented about molding planes how they are used and how they are made larry williams demonstrates the traditional method of making a pair of hollows and rounds from a solid billet including blade making hardening and tempering hollows and rounds are used in
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