Gathered Galoots

I have been toying with the idea of a wooden shooting board plane for some
time, before I bought my Veritas shooting board plane.  While traveling for
work, I recently came across a monstrous wooden shooting board plane at a
decent price.  The real question was, would I be able to bring it home in
my luggage?  Its 24" long, wieghs over 9#, and is in decent condition where
it counts.

https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Woodworking-Tools/i-p8nfrXr

The front strike buttons look like they were removed with an adze, or
someone slowly picked away at the splinters that over enthusiastic
hammering had created.

Thanks to our fantastic foreign correspondent Wolfgang Jordan, I was able
to track down some information on this beast.  Wolfgang was able to ID it
(or a very close relative) as made by Friedrich Ott about 1940, and even
provided a catalog cut showing one

http://kataloge.holzwerken.de/ottf/002/04_Seite_36.jpg

It translates roughly into
Miter Cutter No 130
With a planing beam with an iron rail and 2 opposing oblique angles
Cutting iron of 65mm or 85mm (even bigger than mine)
For cutting width up to 60mm 80mm
Without Lignum Vitae sole (mine has a metal sole)
With LV sole
Mass 13kg (28#!) (Board and plane I assume)

He also sent pictures of a similar plane in a friends collection.  Looks
identical except for different brand irons, and the strike buttons haven't
been destroyed.  This also has a protruding iron rail on the "down" side,
and a metal sole on the working side.  I originally thought this was added
to cover for damage on that corner, but Wolfgang's friends plane has the
same rail.

https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Woodworking-Tools/i-gjPGWf7

The blades are sharpened bevel down, and were still fairly sharp when I
found them.  As low angle and skewed, they will be a bit of a challenge to
sharpen the first time.


It looks like a new shooting board is in my future, with a dedicated groove
for the rail.  I wonder where I can look for ideas????

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/Advances%20in%
20a%20ramped%20shooting%20board.html

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ShopMadeTools/Setting%20Up%
20and%20Using%20a%20Shooting%20Board4.html

( I doubt mine will turn out as elegant as his!)


Thanks for looking.


-- 
Kirk Eppler in Half Moon Bay, CA

> On Oct 19, 2017, at 5:06 PM, Kirk Eppler  wrote:
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> http://kataloge.holzwerken.de/ottf/002/04_Seite_36.jpg


Kirk shared his mighty new/old mitre plane with us this morning. Included was an
image from a catalog showing not only his plane but some mitre jacks that are
not the common ones found. By common one I mean one of these: https://sheworkswood.com/projects/la-forge-royale-miter-
jack/">https://sheworkswood.com/projects/la-forge-royale-miter-jack/

I have had a couple of those over the years but when I thinned the herd the one
I kept looks like the one’s pictured near the bottom of Kirk’s link above. Till
these catalog images, mine is the only mitre jack I have seen in this
configuration. Given the limited evidence, I must conclude it is German (or at
least continental) in origin.

Here is mine: https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../35485863406/in/dateposted-
public/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../35485863406/in/dateposted-
public/

Bill