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230921 "Adam R. Maxwell" <amaxwell@m...> 2012‑06‑12 Re: project progress & question
Hi Chuck,

On Jun 11, 2012, at 20:40 , Chuck Taylor  wrote:

> Adam, you wrote:
>
> =========== snip ============> So far, I've got carcases done for the
> =========== pair, all using hand tools:
>
> http://maxwells.smugmug.com/Hobbies/Woodworking/23483144_SwP79b
>
> It's quartersawn red oak.
> ===========snip ============>
> Those are might fine looking sliding dovetails! I seem to remember
> something about you making a dovetail plane out of another plane some
> time back. Is that what you used here?

Sure enough! That plane was made from a Sandusky 3/4" skew rebate. This
time around, I modified it further by nailing on a longer depth stop,
since I've had problems with it diving at the end. Sadly, my sliding
dovetails still take more tweaking than I'd like, and I ended up going
from too tight to too loose on a couple of them.

Adam west of Chuck in PA, WA

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