Gracious Galoots,

I bought a Sandusky horned smoother recently for $35 from Josh Clark (
www.hyperkitten.com).

https://photos.app.goo.gl/HIn9DsxcwdWdZiyp1

I'm wondering about the wisdom of changing the plane's role in life from
smoother to scrub.  The mouth is about 1/2" wide.  The iron is good: 3/16"
thick at the rear of the bevel (bezel, Jeff) and 1 3/4" wide.  Lots of life
left in the iron.  It's a Sandusky laminated blade.  I would only regrind
the blade to an appropriate radius and not otherwise modify the plane.

Suggestions, compliments, disparaging remarks?

Regards,

Dwight

Hey Dwight,

Did you beat josh out of a $1000 plane?  $100 plane? Is anyone going to 
pay you $100 for it?

You have already established what it is worth.  Come on, it's lunch 
money!  Modify it and use it as you wish.  Enjoy it!

Bill W.
*Grumpy*  In Beautiful downtown Nottingham, PA

Dwight

A scrub is used with more set than a smoother - as much as 1/16".

If the mouth is still open with the blade at a scrub setting - the 
shaving will have thickness equal to the set - then the shavings will 
clear the mouth.

Nice looking plane.

Brent

On 2017-10-19 18:54, Dwight Beebe wrote:
> Gracious Galoots,
> 
> I bought a Sandusky horned smoother recently for $35 from Josh Clark (
> www.hyperkitten.com).
> 
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/HIn9DsxcwdWdZiyp1
> 
> I'm wondering about the wisdom of changing the plane's role in life from
> smoother to scrub.  The mouth is about 1/2" wide.  The iron is good: 3/16"
> thick at the rear of the bevel (bezel, Jeff) and 1 3/4" wide.  Lots of life
> left in the iron.  It's a Sandusky laminated blade.  I would only regrind
> the blade to an appropriate radius and not otherwise modify the plane.
> 
> Suggestions, compliments, disparaging remarks?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dwight
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 6:56 PM Dwight Beebe  wrote:

> Gracious Galoots,
>
> I bought a Sandusky horned smoother recently for $35 from Josh Clark (
> www.hyperkitten.com).
>
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/HIn9DsxcwdWdZiyp1
>
> I'm wondering about the wisdom of changing the plane's role in life from
> smoother to scrub.  The mouth is about 1/2" wide.  The iron is good: 3/16"
> thick at the rear of the bevel (bezel, Jeff) and 1 3/4" wide.  Lots of life
> left in the iron.  It's a Sandusky laminated blade.  I would only regrind
> the blade to an appropriate radius and not otherwise modify the plane.
>
> Suggestions, compliments, disparaging remarks?
>
>
Just a note or two.  Having a handful of wooden scrubs, be prepared to add
a hand grip under the blade, to prevent jamming the web of your hand.  I
just grabbed one in Basel last week, designed as a scrub, forgot which pic
is which.

https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Woodworking-Tools/i-nFrr7n2

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

My Knight scrub was a custom order, and I should have gotten it made as a
Razee.  It really hogs off the Fritos, but gets painful after a while.
 (Hiding back left, purpleheart)

https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/BAGaThons-and-Gatherings/150912
-Bagathon-MS/i-T2X579w">https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/BAGaThons-and-
Gatherings/150912-Bagathon-MS/i-T2X579w

The Pinie I picked up fresh at retail, cheap, just a bit of sanding to make
it nicer to hold.

Kirk in HMB, CA

>
> --
Sent from my iPad, apologies for the Auto Correct errors. Kirk

Hey Dwight:
I’ve also got a handful of older worn (ie wide mouthed) planes.
Traditionally, those all naturally were converted to scrubs or otherwise,
 re-soled.
  I don’t take any to the grinder, but I do start sharpening with heavy
bias on the corners and within a few Sharpening’s I’ll have the desired 7
or 8 in radius needed for scrub plane action.  I personally like the old
euro horned planes, but I have several old beech coffin smoothers that also
work great.   Can get very thick shavings off.
Cheers from Barcelona
Claudio

Thank you to all you gave me that little extra shove down the
plane-conversion slope.  Another small project.

Regards,

Dwight