Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Truing the Planing Bench

The planing bench hasn't been trued in several years as it was mostly used as a flat surface to glue and finish things made on the main bench. Now that it will be a reference surface it needed truing.

The first pleasant surprise was how little it was out of true with just a slight twist, high left far corner and low right near corner, and a small belly down part of the middle. I've removed the twist and the belly and now it is just a matter of digging out the #8 and finishing up.


One other, maybe not a surprise, but pleasant is how much easier it is to plane on a 800mm surface vs. a 900mm surface.

I will add a crochet planing stop to the left end and see if I can find the old deadman. If it is gone (I never throw anything away unless it is something I will need later :-)) I will make another for use with the crochet.

5 comments:

  1. Sylvain,

    It is rigid, you can shim but all it would do is "rock". The twist is very minor, what you see took all the twist out. I just finished planing 45 degrees across from both directions and the straight edge will not spin anywhere on the bench. I'll come back with the joiner full length until I get full length shavings and then call it done.

    ken

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  2. ... and that shall be flat enough.... :-)

    Bob and Rudy, back home

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  3. Bob,

    Find anything of interest?

    ken

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  4. Oh yeah, loads of it....

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  5. Bob,

    Post to follow?

    ken

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