Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 1:57 am
I've gotten into hand planes recently and I like the No 140 you posted.
Here is a famous Bond-movie actor (real name = Clifton!), the Sheriff, calling out a "British Secret Agent" hiding in my fleet:
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Here is a closer look, the Clifton No. 3 plane. It reminds me of a Millers Falls, so I call it "Clifty Falls" (a nice Indiana park name). You can still see a little Cosmoline on the brass parts. This plane is like a solid piece of granite; the blade just cuts without any shake at all:
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That bookmatched tiger maple, I'm working into a future project. Bookmatch-resawing was done on the SS Bandsaw, and the Clifton plane is evening it all out with the smoothest of results!
Chris