The Fillister Plane | Paul Sellers

I want to talk to you about a plane that I've used all my life ever since I was about 15 years old it's a stanley number 78 phyllis - it could be any other maker that makes this type of plane it's what we call a rebate plane it could be called a rabbit plane it could be called a Phyllis - plane have you been there were all those titles and it's a really useful plane if you're working on rebate so that's what it was designed for so you've made your door you've got it hung you hang it in the frame it's slightly twisted you can take this plane and plane a little bit off the stop the door has expanded over the night and you come in the morning it's slightly too big you might not want to take it off the door because you put finish on it and the frame still has to be finished so you could take a little bit off the rebate with this by taking off the depth stop taking off the fans taking off the guide bar and things like that and you could adjust you can use it for all manner of things what I want to do is put this to the piece of wood before what it was originally intended for and that was to create rebase so the rebate is the recess that the window sash goes in the door goes in could be a rebate to put an inlay in and all kinds of things like that let me break this apart a little bit for you just so you can see the different parts to it because the adjustment has to be catered to so there's my fence that's my long fence going across here this is my my depth that guarantees the depth of the cuts so I don't go past so I've got a 3/8 rebei I go down to 3/8 of an inch inside here I've got this three spur cutter here and this is out of the cutting position so it's been retracted when I take this screw out turn this around and have this protruding it protrudes past the sole and where I would use that then would be that little snicker at the fore edge there would cut the rebate ahead of the cutter so it would be cutting a wall on this piece of wood and it would allow the cutter behind that to pick up the wood without tearing the surface of the grain without that this rebate plane will not cut across grain so that's what that's for adjustment as a reverse cantilever which is commonly used on planes well that means that the head of the screw on this side when I start to turn this it elevates this end and that presses down on the fore part of the blade right behind the cutting iron so when this is in place it presses down on the fore part and it works as a cap iron that puts pressure on the blade and forces the shaving up on the underside of this as you can see the adjustment mechanism this is a corrugation in here just slots that have been cut into here there are grooves in this adjustment bar here this lever so I move this up and down and this gives me the micro adjustment I need to set the blade to a deep or a shallow cut perfectly simple so let's reload this in here what you have to do is guess which slot it's going to go in and then move this forward to see if the blade protrudes past the sole which it does so I bring it back and then slide this into place a little awkward doesn't always go in easily straight off that one did and then you can see I've got a gap here and no gap at the bottom that's critical to the well-being of the plane it's not a question of setting this and tightening this screw this is purely an adjustment screw so as long as this is high enough on this side and that's low enough to tighten against the back of the blade the plane will work the blade itself is wider than the base of the plane people think that's a flaw and sometimes file or grind off the side of the blade but it needs to slightly protrude past whichever side is cutting because that gives the relief to the cutting edge if it's flush with the side it won't cut and it'll keep moving away from the wall that you're creating and make an inaccurate wall so that's there for a reason there's my fence in place I want a half-inch wide Rebate I take my ruler measure it so there I am right on half an inch just showing off and then I want my death said I want to take a quarter of an inch off so set this this has a little groove a V groove in here in the side and on the other side of the casting of this shoe is a piece that corresponds to it so that makes the fans this guy at this stop stay vertical and the foot parallel to the surface that I'm going to be creating the rebate in so cinch that tight make sure everything is locked down lock down here I'm set so that's it so whatever size rebate you want you can go up to about an inch and a quarter wide if you take this fence off you can actually go wider but you don't have the benefit of the fence so here we go we start at the nose I'm taking no cut so I'm going to lift this lever on the back here just a little until that blade starts to engage there it's engaged if I want less of a cut I just press this down just a hair and I start at the nose and I work back I've got the blade lined up it's protruding just past the side and once I'm in I can take full length cuts like this what you've got to watch out for is what just happened there is often because of the design of the plane the shavings will clog up on the inside they're just product through the side and you're back in action so there is my rebate for me it's really a neat plane to have for that very purpose there it is what about cross grain cuts I'm often asked about that cut let's take a look at this and set this up for a cross-grain cut now it's not going to work in the vise as I just clamped it in because the end of the plane is going to catch on the base the fence is going to catch on the vents on the bench so we'll show you what we do that let's take this and put that spur cutter that's on the inside of here and turn it round now we're talking cutters here there's a little tiny cutter that's on these leading edges so you rotate this a half a turn sometimes it's just easier to take the whole screw home just rotate it that half turn drop it back into those other two slots that are remaining and my spur cut is just protruding past the sole by about 1/32 of an inch I think something like that lock it down make sure it's tight take this out while I'm here yeah you don't catch this cutting iron you don't want any corners removing on the blade itself I should remind us of that the blade wants to go tight into the corner you don't want to do a rounded edge if you might have thought that because we do that with smoothing planes this plane and we don't do that with okay so it's sticking past I'm not going to go too deep with this just enough to get you to see exactly how it works lock it off the fence is still locked off in the same position well I'm gonna do is clamp this to the bench top because that's the really the only way that I can do this it works really well good sharp plain this is one of the things with any of the rebate planes you want a good sharp plane you want to make sure you've sharpened up before you start the task sharpen that little spur if it's if it needs sharpening lock its off there so we nice and firm and then this one so we're letting that little spur cutter cut ahead of the plane so we it cuts in both directions it cuts on the reverse stroke and it cuts on the forward stroke because it's a little radius so there is my first cut I've got this pristine cutting edge it looks beautiful it looks like my knife wall what's going down very nicely I've got my rebate done now you do have to work a little bit at keeping it parallel to the surface but now I'm down so must my stop here is hitting the surface of the woods of the stop hits the surface it won't go anymore if I do want to go more I simply adjust this depth move it up a millimeter two millimeters quarter of an inch whatever I want block it off again and I can go I can carry on going if I want to be more aggressive with the cut you don't want to be too aggressive with this spur cutter because it's only just penetrating the surface so now I've got a heavier cut look what I got I got a really lovely surface to my piece of wood he's very nice it's exactly what I want so that's the such phyllis diller phyllis top lane the rebate playing the rabbit plane didn't matter what you call it it's a wonderful tool and it should complement your woodworking tool collection and it should be I wouldn't say essential unless you're doing a lot of rebating work but it's a great tool to own it's one to have in your toolbox and enjoy using I just want it before I go just show you one element of this that I want you to get clarity on and that's the little spur cutter that goes into the recess let me take this off out of the way and take the this cutter this is a cutter and that's what I want to show you on the other side of this so I undo this screw I'll take it all the way out here and each one of these this schref oil here this three-sided thing can be sharpened two of these are not sharpened they're just square but the one that I want you to see is this one because it has a radius on this way and it's got a bevel following that radius so it's actually a cutter and it's very important this cutter it has to be sharp because it's cutting across the grain and when this is in the plane it protrudes past the sole of the plane but I am not much more than a millimeter if it's a more than not at all 1/32 of an inch something like that his plenty doesn't need any more because you don't take heavy cuts when you going across the grain it just doesn't work so that's that and that gets registered in here when it's in the cross grain position those two make it really secure put the screw in and then it's sticking past the sole and I'll try and show you that as well it's a wonderful plane really wonderful this cross-grain cut is beautiful when I put the straight edge against the tip of the protruding cutter there that spur cutter and rock it back and forth so it touches the soul its protruding about 1/32 of an inch when I put the straightedge on there I can see it's in good relation to the blade the main cutting iron so when I use this on the wood now it's exactly the right depth of cut I would never take a deep depth of cut with this plane going across the grain so it's set that's what the spur cutter does and that's its relationship to the main cutter and I think this is an amazing plane I enjoy having one not necessarily essential unless you're doing a lot of rebate cutting but it's very handy to have and I think that this is a plane that you would enjoy for a long time [Music] you

Channel: Paul Sellers

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Length: 14min 14sec (854 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 04 2019