Tag: plane

This is not a gloat
This article might not impress everyone so I’m contacting this an interesting find as an alternative of a gloat.

I’ve normally been fond of the more compact instrument makers. So when I spotted an Aussie hand airplane on a “On-line auction website in the vicinity of you™, I had to make a operate for it.

Soon after a btalle with an additional curious but unsure purchaser, I gained the auction and a several times later arrived a Turner no 4 smoothing airplane.

I will never exhibit you any shots ahead of you have study much sufficient, as some of you could change your eyes absent in disgust. But I can guarantee you, there is certainly no want for parental guiding the woodworking fashion.

Indeed, it has plastic handles. Sure, it has a frog manufactured of aluminum.

Although you enable tho sink in I will explain to you the plane also has a very strong and nicely designed human body, the handles are translucent (á la MF permaloid) and that the aircraft is fitted with a Erik Anton Berg cutter created specially for the Turner instrument business.

I will not try to steal the exhibit as all I know about this company is borrowed from the Village Woodworker down below:

thevillagewoodworker.blogspot.com/2012/11/turner-hand-pla…

What I can include is that I agree with his review. This is a incredibly nicely made hand plane. The celluloid acetate handles feels superior in my hands and bring a mild smile to my confront, a great deal wanted in the darkish era of Finnish autumn awaiting the even even worse. The aluminum frog is of course a slight problem. Will it hold up versus experienced use? But as extensive as keep in mind not to tighten both the lever cap or the frog screws too a lot I ought to be Ok. And I just enjoy having a Berg cutter manufactured precisely for metallic hand planes which can be utilized not in only in this aircraft but also my MF no 9.

This plane was bought from an Englishman who suggests his father labored in Australia for a handful of decades and who thinks his father should have purchased the airplane throughout his remain. From what I know it hasn’t been utilized for a long time. It’s not unused but the scar tissue on the surface has extra to do with getting saved away improperly than from challenging use. The airplane has some shallow pitting on each sole and cheeks and I identified rust on the tackle bolts as very well as the bolt housing. By the seem of the bleached and pretty tatty box and the mildew stench coming from it, I would guess the plane has been stored in a outdoors drop but succumbed to sunshine and different temperatures, which would pretty well make clear why the aircraft has been corroded.

The handles are intact and I hope that incorporating some wax may aid them to remain audio. The good thing is the handles have not been subjected to direct daylight.

There is a very good addition t the fastening of the front knob. The lifted housing on the system has a recess slice into it at the entrance side. The knob has a mating small toe which fits into the recess. This attribute will maintain the entrance knob from rotating and stop the user from around tightening the knob. An ingenious invention which would be welcomed on other planes as well.

The airplane has only been taken for a short spin on some ash, but it does sense promising. The cutter had been resharpened but not throughout its full edge so it wants a correct resharpening right before I can provide a verdict.

What I can say is that I have when compared the bodyweight of this aircraft with a MF no 9 (Variety 2) and a Stanley low knob no 4.

The Turner is the decidedly heaviest of them all, even taking into consideration this aircraft has plastic handles and a frog created of aluminum. It weighs in at 1750 grams.

The MF no 9 weighs 1680 grams and the Stanley no 4 a mer 1610 grams.

The big difference are not intellect blowing and may possibly be moot for most customers, but it does say one thing about the solidity of this aircraft.

Posted by Finnberg68 on 2013-10-30 21:41:54

Tagged: , Turner , Instruments , Built , Austrlia , no , 4 , bench , smoothing , aircraft , celluloid , acetate , plastic , handles , Erik , Anton , Berg , Eskilstuna , cutter , iron , aluminum , frog

#furniture #Do-it-yourself #woodwork #woodworking #freedownload#woodworkingprojects #woodsmith ,wooden craft, wooden planer, good woodworking, picket chairs, wood operating equipment, popular woodworking, woodworking books, woodworking workbench plans