Steve Branam shows how to create the handy rabbet joint using a selection of different hand planes. Check out Steve's new book at bit.ly/HandTool..., and learn more about joinery at www.popwood.com/techniques/joinery
Just picked up a Rabbet plane similar to that Stanley you used (in my case an Anchor brand, still vintage) that was missing the depth stop and guide. The guy who restored it made replacements out of wood, and did the best job one could, but I like your method of using it and will probably do the same. I wonder if your finger guide method would work with it as well. I had also been thinking that a dado plow plane may also work if adjusted to the edge, but of course the width of cut may be an issue. Maybe have to do multiple rows to make a wider rabbet?
Great stuff Steve. You have a clear and concise method of showing the steps taken. I think the first video of your’s that I watched (over & over again) was the shooting board.
The nicker on the rabbet plane or moving fillister should be cutting the cross-grain fibers before the iron peels them up. One common usage is to drag the plane backwards across the end to run the nicker across the entire width before then using it in a forward cut. Either way, that should avoid tearout on the cross-grain. Doing the cross grain first certainly wouldn't hurt, but there will also be situations where you only do the cross-grain rabbet, with no long-grain rabbet meeting up with it.
I believe you're referring to the Krenov-style saw bent. I added a removable cross-piece with a half-lap notch to it so that it could catch an off-cut and keep it supported. I use it under the end of a board I'm crosscutting on my sawbench, oriented with the long top piece down the length of the board, and the cross-piece under the board's width.
what an introduction, PS, you can't make a Rabbit (the thing with ears- in England or America you call this a 'hare'; but in Australia we call it a Rabbit!! ), so you have to call it something else, so what can you call it, a groove?, or what else?
I'm from the American West and my experience is that we say rabbit much more than we say hare. Most folks out here will see a hare and call it a "jackrabbit", even if the species might have "hare" in the name. Anyway, rabbet comes from a French word, "rabbat", so you can blame them for the confusing word that we're stuck with.
They're called holdfasts and they are very traditional in woodworking. Follow this link and you can read a fair amount about their history and their resurgence with hand tool woodworkers: www.popularwoodworking.com/?s=holdfasts&submit=
