In this video Paul Sellers shows you a cheap alternative to buying a toothing plane, using very common and readily available materials. To find out more about Paul Sellers and the projects he is involved with visit paulsellers.com
I very much appreciate the poor man's tools series after a lifetime of working offsite, never having my own workshop, limited tools or being outside in my dad's trade; gardening and landscaping. Tree work and assembly/fabrication with wood was common, always in the rough. My Dad did not like me going off site to get my own materials, even when out of my own pocket, so you could not just pop off to the ironmongers (which was often miles away anyway), and there was no internet or screwfix yet. Therefore you had to make do and mend with what you had to get the job done. I definitely always have a junior hacksaw and spare blades in my general toolbox, therefore fabricating a toothing plane to key wooden surfaces would be easy, and as demonstrated, does the exact diamond striations you look for in any good keyed surface. As ever, thanks for your tutorials and sharing of thoughts and work, to me they are the best woodworking videos on here.
Another big step up from Mr Sellers. I have a toothing plane iron lacking the plane body, which we've used for years to claw at our substrate while trying to smile about the gruesome results; meanwhile all along there was this great solution waiting patiently, in our case possibly forever, but not anymore - now it's payday. Thanks very much.
hi paul i made a poor mans router, just as you described and i have used it to cut rebates in the back of a recycled wood picture frame, and after i learned how to handle it it works perfectly, thank you...PS the body was a piece of pallet wood picked up from outside my sons business where people leave old pallets for passer by recyclers.
I made my own toothing plane a few years ago. I used a dremel cut-off disc to make fine grooves side by side length wise on an ordinary plane-iron. It takes patience and a steady hand to do it. Accentuate the grooves as much as you want. The cut-off disc tends to stay in the rut once you make the first pass. You can stick masking tape to mark the lines 1mm apart or whatever distance by eye. The grooves may not be perfectly parallel but the end result is the same. But honestly i find that 60 grit sandpaper on a block, works just as well and the adhesion is the same.
Great way to get the job done, You're a wealth of information and never lacking to get the point across, Thank You. I am now thinking of this tool method to breaking down old oil paint finish i have on the house trim.
Sublime! Already made the Poor's Man chair devil: still some tweaking to do but does the work pretty impressevely and learnt doing it. Cheers for all that you do, and your team. We will have to clone you!
I'm thinking it would be a good idea to keep that powder in a marked container. You never know when you could use it to mix with glue to color a glue line, for an inlay, perhaps.. [edited for spelling]
"Car Boot Sale" in the states, we refer to that as the trunk. I presume this refers to the folks who set up in a parking lot and sell old stuff they have lying around, similar to a garage sale?
What about taking an extra iron for you No 4 & cherrying it up with a torch then notch it with a V file & then cherry again & temper in dirty oil? Very cool Idea Paul.. Gary/Hk
Fantastic! You have the best ideas! I never seem to have the right tool when I need it and this would be a perfect remedy. Thanks for another great video!
There are new ones from EC Emmerich No 108 S it costed me about 60 pounds and it is excellent. (Well, to me their all products i have tried are superb).
I SEE, It has to do with the angle of the iron.. Gonna make me an toothing iron for my No 80 scraper from the many many that grandpa had in his stash..
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Paul with an electric drill (-: Looks very unusual.
I'd say it would, but I never tried veneering yet. I also have got another idea for a toothing plane. I'd simply put a piece of broken jigsaw blade into slot cut in a piece of scrap wood. Just for testing. :)
William, I was taught to never sand a glue surface. The explanation was that sanding produces fuzzy surface fibers, which are very weak. When glue bonds to the fuzz, the resulting bond is only as strong as the fuzz and will fail.
Yeah, I guess it just me. I had an relative who fought in world war two. He first entered Europe in Italy, and fought all the way to Berlin. When he spoke to the Italians, they said, "Sure we look bad, but if you get to know the English, they are actually worse." Every country he entered, the citizens echoed the same belief. When he was in Germany, they said the same thing. "Get to know the English, and you will see that they are actually, worse." He said he knew a lot English, and they seemed okay to him. He didn't know what they were talking about. He than said, when the Russians were entering Germany, everyone fled to surrender to English troops. He said there was this one German passenger ship load to five times it maximum, and they were all trying to get to English held Germany to surrender. The Russians Torpedo the ship, killing everyone on board. I guess it was a long time ago.
Kiki Lang I don't disagree with you. There's a reason we are a separate island from the rest of the EU. And that's because we generally don't have the warmth and family-oriented lifestyle that many European countries have. It must be all the rain. Still though, you don't have to talk to anyone to see the countryside.
thank you for making the poor man videos. I don't have the poor issue as much as I'm 75 miles away from the nearest semi big city and finding tools is difficult except at specialty stores. I was wondering if a hacksaw blade would be aggressive enough to be an adequate tooth pattern. Everyone has hacksaw blades.
He showed using the junior hacksaw balde so I suppose that a normal wide one would work even better because it is wider and has more support in the body of the 'Plane'.
