Hello my friends! It's time for another giveway for those, who decided support me, even when i didin't upload for a long time. I appereciate it. I got really nice laminated iron, made by Ward. It still have about 20mm of the hard steel plate so i'm gonna use it in the new plane - skewed coffin smoother with mouth closer. I don't want to make 40-50 minute long video so i decided to divided whole process for the 3 parts. Pear body is theme of the first episode. Preparing and flattening the iron will be showed in the second episode, ebony wedge and mouth closer, testing in the part no 3. As you probably know skewed floats are essential tools for that kind of project. It's hard to get or build them so i'm gonna show you how to achieve the same results with chisels and some creativy :) At the end of the video i soak the plane body into boiled linseed oil and put it to the vacuum chamber for about 12 hours. After that the soaked wood will rest about 5-7 days for blo polymeryzation. What i want to get is: - less tendency to moisture absorbing; - less tendency to wood movement; - disgusting for all the wood eating insects. Fell free to leave any ask in comments. I hope you got good time, no matter with or without my videos. Cheers Stavros
Stavros, great video and beautiful workmanship. Someone will be very happy with this smoother. Also your camera work is beautiful. Does your wife help with the filming?
Sir, it was an incredible work. I appreciate every step that you doing on the time lapse. It was more instructive than any documentation about the description, because the practice shows more than the theory, but the theory is very important too. I have only one question. What kind of woods it is?
It's very inspiring to me that you stamp your maker's mark first. Most people stamp it at the end, like "this time was good enough." When you stamp it at the beginning, it's a commitment that every time, you will make it worthy to have your name on it.
Hey Robert! Thank you for your support :) Since i ruined finished plane during stamping i like to do it at the begining (except narrow planes). Cheers!
Incredible pure craftsmanship at ALL LEVELS! Simple hand tools and ingenious methods used to produce exact tolerances - a joy to watch, to learn from and above all to be thoroughly inspired by. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful skills and plane making knowledge- it is thoroughly appreciated!!! I will certainly be looking forward to the subsequent parts to this collection.
It’s soooo great to see you at work in your workshop again, Stavros! I really enjoyed this vid, as always! Can’t wait for the other two! Thanks so much!
Good to see you again Stavros! Great video! I'm laid up with a spinal injury, so watching woodworking videos is me living vicariously for a couple months. This was a good one!
Great to see processes we can replicate without specialized tools. I'm going to be skewing one of my 2" firmer chisels tonight! Thanks, as always, for sharing. Michael from Greece.
Wonderful work Stavros! I've been waiting patiently for more videos of your plane building. You can teach me more in one video than I can figure out in a month of experimentation. I love how you show your use of jigs, especially the planer trick to provide a decreasing reference surface for your chisel. As others have commented, wonderful camera work too!
As usual, a very beautiful plane in the making. I very much admire your craftsmanship and artistry in planemaking. I'm glad to see another video from you. Best wishes to you and your family.
Great to see another video. I pulled a bunch of old molding planes from boxes and got them on the shelves in order. Most were given to me and suffered significant water damage and warping. They will be rebuilt soon. Thank you for keeping us all inspired to do our best work. Greetings from the high plains of Texas.
@@StavrosGakos Doing pretty well. My coworker’s mother passed just before Thanksgiving holiday so I have been working double while he is away. My family’s health has been holding up so that is good and the work on the house is progressing again. I still have a lot to do yet but it is making progress. I am glad that full time plane making is coming along for you. I still owe you some lumber. Thank you again brother. Happy holidays.
Glad your are posting again. I've watched your old videos time several during your break. I love to watch how your skill has grown over the years. I say to myself "So that's how he solved that problem." You are truly becoming a master craftsman. Keep the videos coming, I need more inspiration.
simply magnificent, I'm a goldsmith but I've always had a very special charm for wood, I love the smell of the texture, I love seeing your work and the level of detail, this is the path to becoming a Master, being a Master Craftsman is something great for me It requires a lot of practice and accumulated wisdom to reach almost perfection, as we are never satisfied, we always want more, you are a reference for me, one of my greatest inspirations, a big hug from here in Portugal
I’ve used similar technique with angled blocks to guide the chisel, when I made grips for a target pistol. Very accurate cuts can be made, wish I had room for a thickneser though!
Wonderful work! You're a truly gifted craftsman. Looking forward for part 2. Btw, last week I was in Poland for the first time and was amazed how nice everybody was. Now I definitely need to learn a little of the language to come more often and search my family roots.
Pamiętam pierwszy film o Tobie ( router plane ) i obserwowanie ewolucji Twoich technik, narzędzi i otoczenia nie napawa mnie nostalgią, ale raczej satysfakcją 😉 zadowolony, widząc tyle wytrwałości, aż „staję się w tym punktem odniesienia” pole 💯💯💯 dobra robota za podróż i dziękuję za udostępnienie 🙏🙏🙏😉 Jestem Francuzem i to tłumaczenie pochodzi z Google, ale chciałem je przetłumaczyć 😊
Ahh the description - good to read those. 😅 Well, I learned a new technique there. Less movement is a beautiful thing. I prefer working with wooden planes but find having to tune them flat again periodically kind of annoying. As an aspiring plane maker, if you dropped a masterclass series on skillshare or the like, I'd absoultely scoop it up. You definetly have the videography chops for it. @@StavrosGakos
Wow a post from you, yup it's been awhile, but our patience has been rewarded, so good to see you and your work. How is the project going for making and selling your work? Best greetings from Wales.
Beautiful work as always Stavros! The plane blank looks like it’s really tight grain and just a pleasure to work with. Did you say it was pear? I went back through the beginning of the video and couldn’t find if it was mentioned. I love all the styling you add to the body. Someday I’m going to add it to the two planes I made!
Stavros, here’s another finishing question… sorry for so many questions. How do you get a consistent colour finish with BLO on the end grain? When I put BLO on end grain it soaks it all up and goes a dark brown. Your colour is consistent and the end grain looks like it has no grain even before you stamp your mark on.?
I love getting the members notice that you have a new video! Early Christmas present for me. I like the concept of the BLO and the vacuum chamber, I’m wondering how sticky it will get during use if the body or sole gets scratched during use. Would it expose uncured BLO?
Hey Bryan! The level of sticky is zero :) The wood keep all the blo. You can feel the difference only during sole flattening, the sand paper get clogged really fast. Cheers!
Having watched pretty much all of your videos, I am curious about the saws and plane floats you use. Are they home made? I kind of figure that is the way you would go.... Might be good for another video if you do make your own.
Good, looking forward to it! Side note, I do have some Mountain Mahogany, Cercocarpus ledifolia. Not a mahogany at all, but called that because of the dark red color. Seldom straight or tall, it loves high desert in the western US. If you want to play with some, I can send you some. Very hard, very dense as in sinks in water, very slow growing. I did try to have some guitar fret boards made out of it, but it kept wanting to move. Maybe not good for hand planes. The old fiddle makers would use it for violin pegs. The Indians used it for digging sicks.
Beautiful work. I have a large stock of pear i have been planning on making into some infill and regular wooden planes. Thank you for showing the trick with the chisels and sandpaper. I have made quite a few "poor man's rasps" with wood and sandpaper but never thought of using the chisels to make a "poor man's float". Any regrets using pear?
Najlepszy kontent na wieczorny relaks po pracy, dziękuję ;) Thank you for upload, best content for chill after work. :) What's the idea behind a small smoother with a 55-degree bed angle and a 10-degree beveled blade (effective angle of about 53 degrees) and no chipbreaker? My intuition suggest me that it's for less resistance while pushing. The same time higher bed angle give more space for pushing hand. Or I just overinterprete your intentions :) The toted coffin from 070-071 has 55 degrees. Bevel up miter from 061, has an effective angle of 50 to 60 degrees. Is there any specific value when the chipbreaker no longer prevents tearout?
Hey, thanks a lot! There are a few reasons: - less resistance (skewed blade planes work with less effort) - the iron was used before as skewed - smoothers in the 18th century didn't have a chipbreaker - i want to improve my skills in skewed planes and make something unique Plane irons with chip breaker needs more room between bed and wear. The best wear angle is single iron plane is about 10 deg more than bed angle. In double irons is can be about 20-30 deg or more (it depends of chip breaker angle and profile). The throat should be tight, the same as the mouth. Using the chip breaker on the plane beded around 55-60 deg will have very high wear angle (wear angle can't be to high because the mouth will be open really fast during wearing the sole). Cheers :)
Hey, thank you! There are a few reasons: - less resistance (skewed blade planes work with less effort) - the iron was used before as skewed - i want to improve my skills in skewed planes and make something unique Cheers!
Very cool. I love your technique for tackling the exact angles and pairing guides. Also, did you modify a chisel and make it into a scraper? Also, what is the name of that tool that you use for the chamfer?
Hey, tkank you! Here are the answers for your questions :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FSWIG_0fRN0.htmlsi=v7EZpOhVrn6zrf3m ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-re_bp5Lp0To.htmlsi=yF-puXqiah8ffzSF Cheers!
@@StavrosGakos ok thanks…. I have about 10 planes with no finish because I can’t decide which finish to use. In the past I’ve given them 2 coats of BLO but they get dirty easily. I’ve tried your method of then using shellac but it’s messy, needs a lot of coats then takes a while. I think I will try submerging in BLO then beeswax with a polissoir like Caleb James.
