Making a Roundover Plane - Scrapwood Challenge Ep36

Scrapwood Challenge Scrapwood Challenge Its scrap its crap its firewood but some of the wood is good today I'm going to make a simple round over plane for easing over the edges of boards here's one I made as a test it works well enough but in this video I'm going to make a better one I reckon it's a pretty easy project that just about anybody could make and it'll be a pretty handy tool to have around the workshop I'm going to make it out of camphor Laurel just as an excuse to make the video a Scrapwood Challenge but a more dense wood would be a better option camphor Laurel is a hard wood though and that's definitely something that you should use here I'm cutting about 6mm from either side leaving around 16mm or thereabout for the middle piece but it doesn't need to be exact the grain isn't going to match up exactly with such a wide kerf from the table saw but that's okay if you're worried about how it looks then you could even use a contrasting wood for the outside cheeks now I need to cut it down to size but leaving a little extra and then I'll trim it to the final size after it's been glued together now I'll start working on the blade you could make that from many different things like an old chisel an old plane blade but the easiest way would be from high carbon steel stock like this 1075 but I'm going to make it from a piece of broken file if you don't have a belt grinder you could do this with an angle grinder you would need to flatten at least one side but that wouldn't be too difficult to do by hand it doesn't need to be neat and you could leave the teeth of the file on there as long as you have one side clean so that can seat on the bed of the plane next I need to file the round over shape into the end of the blade even though the grinding would have softened the steel it will still be easier to anneal it I do that by heating it up with a blowtorch then letting it cool down as slowly as possible and a good way to do that is to put it in vermiculite I did a pretty poor job of centering that V cutout but that doesn't actually really matter I can put the blade in with the bevel down and then I can mark the underneath and I can find out exactly where that cutout needs to be the edge of the bevel doesn't do anything and it doesn't need to be sharp so I'm taking off the edge with the file next I need to remove those couple of points that stick out past the V cut on the sole of the plane that's closer it does need a little bit more taken off but I'll finish it after I've hardened the cutter and to harden it I'm heating up to a cherry red color then quenching getting vegetable oil there really isn't much to it for a small cutter like this it doesn't need to be precise as long as it's hardened and you can check that by using a file and see if it cuts into it next I need to temper it and add some strength back to the cutter in a hardened state it will be brittle and there's a good chance it will chip after I've cleaned it up so I can see what's happening I carefully heat it away from the cutting edge and watch the colors run through it when a deep straw color reaches the edge I suspend that by cooling it in water to sharpen it I wrap sandpaper around the needle file that I used to shape it on the test plane I used a wedge to secure the blade that works perfectly well there's no reason not to do it that way it's very simple but I am going to do a different way on this new plane just to show a different method now I'm making a thumbscrew it's made of brass and I'm going to knurl the head I've shown how to do this a few times using my knurling jig but if you haven't seen that yet then I'll put a link to it above for the pin I'm using the smooth shank of an old stainless steel bolt I didn't show it but I knocked the pin back out and I put a dab of CA glue in there to hold it in place it's very easy to set just by sighting along the sole that's now ready so let's give it a go it's a very small radius at just 2mm but it works great at just taking that corner off and it leaves a silky smooth finish you could make the radius whatever size you want though and you could even make a cutter to use it as a chamfer plane I tried it out on a few different scrap pieces there was some silky oak in there so it's very dense I even tried it on plywood and it worked well on all of them hopefully you found that helpful and you enjoyed the video if you did please like and subscribe thanks for watching and I'll see you on the next one

Channel: Pask Makes

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Length: 15min 12sec (912 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 21 2019