Nice looking plane. It reminds me of the Paul Sellers design, but all metal! I built a wood body for my router plane that accepts the Veritas blades, works great. Maybe one day I'll post a video about it!
The way I did it for my college dovetail trinket box is the safest way, I put a flat piece of MFC down clamped it to my bench and stuck the pice to the mfc with double sided sticky tape, you would be very surprised how secure it was then I used it for the router. Rather than this all making a jig that will take 1h to make, waste of time if you ask me lol 😂
Hi and thank you for this video. I will be applying polyurethane to 20 kitchen cabinet doors and 10 drawer fronts. I live in an apartment and just don't have the space to keep these items flat to poly them. I bought a vertical rack but I don't have pipes on the rack. I am concerned that the poly on doors would get damaged if I apply it and then put the doors on the vertical rack..
I really enjoy your videos Their humor and content and your commitment to giving the accuracy of that content a priority is very much appreciated. Also, the sporadic Easter egg clues on how cold your shop is was fun.
Haha, this week I've actually been installing some insulation in the big door and have had to go out and buy some more form fitting gloves so I can touch the cast iron tools and not have fingers fall off! Coldest winter I remember out of the last decade or so
This video seemed very laid back, relaxed. I do have drawers under my bench and yes, tools are just thrown in. What I do have just behind the bench is a wall mounted tool cabinet, with places for all the everyday tools. I agree, it's very satisfying to use tools you have made. All based on the Paul Sellers models.
Love all your videos. This turned out great. I enjoy plowing groves by hand and encourage you to do it more often. I switch between making groves with different methods and power tools but it’s one of the most enjoyable hand tool operations. The drawers under bench relocated from lathe fits perfectly under the bench. The only thing that is glaring is the visible metal slides. A face frame might look weird and maybe worth it. The height and width of it are perfect for under the bench. Also wondering if the bench wood species is close to oak or a type of oak. Wood naming is always a mess with similarities like the many mahogany types across globe.
The drawers do fit, but thats only some modification. They were originally 4 drawers, one had to be removed for planes. They're also pretty shallow, I think 350 or maybe 400mm deep. When I do eventually remake them, they'll extend all the way to the back (~600mm or so), and maybe cut down the height a little too - as it is, my holdfast can't be used in a few of the holes, which defeats the purpose a bit! And with drawer fronts, the slides will at least be hidden when the drawers are closed. The bench is make from "Vic Ash", which is also known as "Tasmanian Oak", "Mountain Ash" and "Messmate". And its neither an ash nor oak, but a couple of very similar looking (to each other) eucalyptus species. We Australians are terrible at naming things 😂
@TheWoodKnight since these are no longer around and Bosch does not seem to indicating they making such corded routers, any equivalent router recommendations without going to the Festool ?
Honestly its a pretty tough choice as I don't know if there are any particularly *great* options. AEG had a really promising looking router on the market for like.. 3 weeks? Then it was pulled from Australian shelves. Dewalts offering is OK but limited power and plunge, Makita have some models (RP2301 I think?) that look decent I've not had any luck with Triton QC before, so I personally wouldn't recommend them but others love them. Sorry I can't be much help now :(
Good information. As a luthier I use hide glue for everything but it started as just the visible parts of the build until one build in particular. It’s the one glue where I’ve had zero reactions with wood types and dyes. A good example of a fail was gluing black purfling on a redwood topped classical with Titebond II. I got a fuzzy grayish perimeter on the edge of the top. I eventually liked the look but it was clearly a fail. After some experimenting post build I found that redwood reacts negatively to Titebond and wasn’t dye bleeding as I initially suspected. Hide all the way from then on.
Great video! I just purchased the GEX 1251ae due to this informative video! BTW- were can I buy that vacuum interface which fits between your sander and vacuum hose ? 😊
Still using you previous table design for my Bosch PBD40. Does everything I need to and takes up little room in my 6x4m workshop. Love the Viking but really can't justify it. About to make a little vice to go on it mounted similarly.
They're getting there! Down here in the south, we experience something called "winter" which is when the warm goes away. It makes it tricky to be in the workshop sometimes!
Nice work again. I use some 20x20, 20x 40, 30 x 30 and 30 x 60 aluminium extrusions for the fence and they work brilliantly. They are connected to the t- track in the same as you have done, even down to the knurled 1/4-20 thumbnuts.
I try not to measure if I don't have to. I have a commercial table but don't really use it. Still using my Bosch PBD40, so far no problems with what I need to do. Scrap wood underneath for clean holes. And now I'll Wrack off 🤪
Also, I upgraded the drill press last year but haven't made a new table yet. You're right in that it isn't strictly needed, but I prefer it for the simple reason of, I don't like touching the cold cast iron so I want to feel smooth melamine under my fingers 😆
That sounds perfectly reasonable to me - cast iron at this time of year is uh, particularly unpleasant! Before even firing up the jointer the other day, I leant on the table to get some boards down and then had to go get a hot cup of tea to get feeling back in my fingers 🤣
When you were measuring at the beginning, you didn't mention if that was imperial or metric? How on earth can I replicate this build down to the milli-inch if I don't know those details?
I did, yes, a friend now has that. When we moved to the new house I splurged with the extra space we have in the workshop, and because of a few big-boring-projects coming up where the Bosch was showing some issues. I'm only now just starting on the first of those!
