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253115 Brent Beach <brent.beach@g...> 2015‑01‑23 Re: Shooting plane
I probably misunderstood Paul's question

On 2015-01-23 05:17, paul womack wrote:
> Has any body ever seen (or even made) a wooden shooting
> plane where the skew of the cutting edge is achieved
> by rotating the bedding around a vertical axis
> (like the Stanley 51) as opposed to having a skewed
> bed and blade?

but it occurred to me that you could make a skewed plane for shooting 
board use quite quickly from an old wooden smoother that was otherwise a 
beater, so I made a sketchup model.

http://www3.telus.ne
t/BrentBeach/Sharpen/Shooting board, modified
smoother v2.jpg

Now, because of the spaces you will almost certainly not be able to use 
that, so try this one

http://goo.gl/VRVMxW

Testing the new oldtools address as well.

Brent
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Brent Beach
Victoria, BC, Canada

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