Stuff

I shall put anything I find interesting or worth commenting below.

Planes

There’s also:

• Scrub plane: you could modify the blade of a No. 4 with a rounded end to make ‘deep’ shavings in wood for truing and smoothing boards faster. Wood by Wright has good pointers on this YouTube video.

• Block plane: a hand-size model that you could technically put in your pocket for quick adjustments, and the like.
• Corrugated plane: a plane having the sole grooved in lines parallel to the sides.
• Thumb or Finger plane: small planes for fine/detail work (used in violin making – also called “Luthier Plane” in some circles/vendors).
  • They can be smooth (flat) or concave (round).
  • They could have also “tooth blades”.
• Squirrel Tail (Palm) plane: smaller than block planes.

• Shooting Board plane: for easing shooting boards on the end-grain.

And if you want to go even further on this rabbit hole, you could delve into Japanese planes (kanna) or any Japanese woodworking tools, methods, and techniques.

Conversions

• Conversion from inches to mm:

Sooo easy…(not). One inch is divided in 16 parts. Sometimes they say 1/2 is 13mm, however, it’s 12.7mm, but let’s live with that.

Pointless discussions

1. Resting planes in the ‘side’ position
2. Primary and Secondary bevels
3. Sharpening and sharpening angles
4. The need for using the bending iron for the purfling
5. Wood choices (“mine’s better” mindset)
6. Measurements less than 1mm
7. Violin makers are not ‘common’ woodworkers
8. Japanese woodworking better than Western
9. Imperial x Metric
10. Use of sandpaper over rasps
11. Secret varnishing
12. Pure machine, pure manual, hybrid
13. Pricey x budget tools and materials and quality
14. PVA x Hide glue
15. Gouges inner x outer (in-cannel x out-cannel) bevels