A STANLEY KERFING PLANE

hi welcome back to the shop today I wanted to talk about um Stanley number 50 little plow planes that they made they're fairly useful and I think that they they actually have a nice proportion for your hand and movement it gives you a good weight although it does tend to me unlike the 45s to flip a little bit you wind up with more pressure up here and of course he can't comes with a bunch of different cutters but that's not really what I want to talk about today I was talking to a friend about kerfing planes and about stair builders songs and for those of you who don't know the kerfing plane is a is a plane that's been modified to take a saw or it's been designed to hold a saw blade with the fence and give you a kerf that you can follow with the grain you can do it against the grain but it's more oftentimes for ripping a board and what it does is it creates a kerf that you can follow when you're wrestling because if you take a long board like this for instance and you want to saw it down either this way into two planks or this way into strips then as you go down you saw it's easy for it to move and so it's kind of hard the way I was taught when I was young to do it was you would run your saw in this way and then you would follow your line and and then creep down a little bit and and go this way a little bit so that you have more of a line to extend so you're using the groove that you cut to make your blade follow the line that you wanted to and it can be difficult particularly for a novice Sawyer but the experienced ones could kind of get the hang of it and they can do it fairly well so I was I was following this thing on Facebook about his kerfing saws and I never had a kerfing so I was taught that way to follow the lead of my own saw the problem is oftentimes American saws cut on the push where Japanese saws cut on the pull and the problem often times with the American sauces that is you're pushing if it's not a really good stiff blade with a back saw like type device on the top of it to keep it rigid it can overheat and it can start to warp on you and then that also hurts you following a line so that all being said I was following this thread on Facebook about it and Bob page who owns Lake loon Tool Works I get this confused since a loon lake but it's Lake loon tool Tool Works the up in northern Michigan a real expert on saws and and his company that he has will resharpen saws and believe may be refurbished saws and then seldom a very good resource but he mentioned that he had taken a stanley plow plane number 50 and he had modified it to hold a saw blade and to act as a kerfing saw well I was astounded and very impressed with the concept but didn't know really how he did it so I wrote to him and I asked him about it and he very kindly agreed to make me one so I was in the middle of a bunch of other projects today but this box arrived and I had been waiting for it I'd sent Bob this old 50 that I have and you see that I had more than one this is a newer one the earlier ones didn't have the wooden handles so I had this one and I discovered later that it had some issues down in here apparently this fence had broken and somebody had reweld it but didn't do a very good job I mean it's correct but it's ugly so it's not of a great value to any collector and it had quite a bit of rust and gunk and stuff in it and I'm not really sure where I got it somebody might have given it to me years ago and I thought if I supplied him with the plane would he make me the kerfing attachment for it and he generously agreed to so I packaged up my plane with all the parts some that I didn't even need and I sent it to him and this arrived this afternoon in the mail and I was very happy to see it so I'm gonna put this one away back on the shelf and use it as a plow plane with the different cutters that it comes with and and I actually think this is more comfortable with the larger wooden handle if you're going to use a small moulding plane or combination planes I think this is a really good one and you can see this one's Japan this one's coated at any rate so I sent this off to him and knowing that it had some issues and it came back with an addition that he put on and I'll do some close-up pictures to make it easier for you you you put this brass plate heavy breastplate and a saw blade in here and it's a fairly coarse saw blade I think I didn't put a rule on it but I can one two three four five per inch now I tried it out on pine I tried it out so I already did this side here and you can see what a beautiful nice straight cut that is so I'm gonna do it on this side here because I recorded the video over there it had some background music that was an issue this was very aggressive sawing it's a you can see the teeth finding it's like a plow plane that I need to start forward rather than back here because as it cuts it'll fill the kerf so a very light cut and an open end to throw out that shavings and then working my way back along this board you see how it'll clog up now this is pine so pine you know it's more gummy and gooey so so it'll clog easier but um so what I did when I got those clogs is all I did was I started the the blade back on top of them and it cleared them right away you know I haven't got my depth stock really set but you probably go back a little you see now there's a little clog so I'll do is come forward a little bit on it and it goes right away but now you can see in that short time I've been able to get a nice start for a good ripping of this board using this kerfing plane and that will allow me to follow that line and rip these pieces off really easily this is really just a starter I'm not trying to salt all the way through the board and I've probably got a deeper than I need to I could probably set the depth stop and do less than that but in that beautiful it out on some maple and some cherry and I just brought out this piece of oak flooring that I had and I thought I would try it on that just to show you the fence keeps it really nicely following the edge of the board it takes no force with such a coarse tooth to to get it to cut basically you're sliding and allowing it to do the cutting and if you if you apply any pressure then what happens is it wants to bite in a little bit so what I'm doing is I'm starting in the forward edge and I'm getting it in and then moving back and slicing off this raised area that still isn't all the way in but this is some very hard white oak and it's making easy work of it and it's creating a beautiful kerf parallel to the edge see right here so I owe a great deal of thanks to Bob for doing this because I wouldn't have even known how to do it it takes a real technological mind and an mechanical person and so I thought I'd show it off today in the video thanks for watching you

Channel: Chester Spier

Views: 1,007

Rating: 5 out of 5

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Id: d-D0JEw0AI8

Length: 12min 3sec (723 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 08 2020