::  -----Original Message-----
::  From: oldtools-bounces@r...
::  [mailto:oldtools-bounces@r...]On Behalf Of Peter
::  McBride
::  Sent: 15 November 2008 06:46
::  To: pjmcbride@o...
::  Cc: oldtools
::  Subject: RE: [OldTools] Anti Holtey?
::
::
::  Looking at the stail engine, I see a use for all those blades I
::  can't bring
::  myself to throw away, those getting a bit on the short side,
::  and with the
::  tops mushroomed and bent...anyone need blades for making stail engines??

Although Salaman doesn't distinguish between them, a stail engine, according
to the late Fred Lambert, is an adjustable device for tapering a stail. I'd
call this a rounder (or rotary plane to speak posh). At the bottom of p 351
he has one rather like the one Paul saw.

Having made a few wooden ones, I find it interesting to see that the
auctioned router has the blade fixed 'bevel up'.

Fred's metal rounders are bedded at 30deg to the tangent and the bevel-down
iron is ground at 25deg.

Jeff
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Jeff Gorman, West Yorkshire, UK
http://www.amgron.clara.net

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