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Updated :- Monday, 20 October 2008 |
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| I made the wooden buck in Spotted Gum, good hard stuff usually found on axe and hammer handles. After planing it square and running it through the thicknesser I scribed for the inside width, and drew a pencil line around the side profile. Marked where I needed a recess for the throat block, and routed it all out freehand. Then with a paring chisel and gouge fitted the sides onto the buck. To hold the plane in the buck I used two 10mm bolts, and three 4mm stainless steel screws through a plate over the throat. I marked and drilled the holes in the brass plates for the screws to hold the infill, and through them I used five 4mm stainless steel screws as well. Now I think...well I hope...the sides are ready to press onto the base. | |||
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| Into the big vice. A quick look in the scrap pile, I have a length of 6mm angle and a 12mm steel plate...they'll do the job of getting the side part way in, then I need something with a recess to accommodate the extra width of the base. A piece of scrap aluminium with a 6mm wide groove is just the thing. ( I've had that piece of scrap for 15 years, and was sure it "come in handy one day"...it did !) 20 seconds later the sides are pressed home and solid on the base. | |||
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| I filed away some of the brass tails to encourage it to flow into my recesses in the steel, then screwed it all into the buck. Then with it wound up real tight in the vice, took to it with a cross peen ( Warrington ) hammer, and both ends of a ball peen hammer. | |||
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I used a 40 grit belt on the linisher and took away the brass. The
excess steel on the sides will be removed when I have a temporary infill
stuffed into the body. The sides are nicely square to the base, and I
want to keep them that way. A couple of overstrikes with the hammer will
come out in the final lap. I'm quite happy with it so far. |
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| page 8 coming soon............. | |||
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