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The plane was designed to chamfer a
This article is light on pictures and text, with the major points in the construction of this plane covered in these two video:
Making A Wooden Chamfer Plane, Part 1
Making A Wooden Chamfer Plane, Part 2
A couple of shots of the finished plane:
The metal infeed and outfeed inserts are stainless steel, as well as the cross-clamp disks. The blade (iron) is hardened steel, made from a piece cut off of a 7-1/4" circular saw blade. The dowel that the wedge goes against is the shank of a 3/16" drill bit, cut and epoxied in.
The cross-clamp is tightened and loosened with a homemade wrench:
This was also cut from the saw blade and hardened. It have a dual purpose: the other end is used to turn the set screws that adjust the infeed.
For those interested, I've made a fairly detailed SketchUp model, and it is available here:
Wooden Chamfer Plane
You will need to download and install SketchUp to view these plans. SketchUp is free and available here:
http://sketchup.google.com/download/
A moderately challenging project and a very satisfying result. I like how it looks so much, I'm reluctant to use it, for fear of damaging it!
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