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Just got back to the project I was working on before my last shopsmith find, which included a Wagner Safe-T-Planer. The project is a home made 6X48 belt sander from plans I found over on the Yahoo ER site. It calls for cylnders 4 1/2 in diameter by 6 1/8" with a crown. I didn't have any stock that big so I glued up stacked rings til I had the length. I turned the crown and when I stacked them next to each other they were different lengths. I thought crap, how am I going to fix this. Then I remembered the Safe-T-Planer. Put that itty-bitty little tool in, set the bite to 1/32", and reved it up to "S". 30 seconds later and I'm done.

That is a slick little tool!

Slick indeed!

Some trivia: There was a recent Roy Underhill show where he found workpieces done by a 19th century tool sort of like a huge Safe-T-Planer. I think it was called a Daniels planer or something like that.

http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=238

http://www.mainemaritimemuseum.org/coll ... ls-planer/

lightnin wrote:Do you remember which episode it was

It was the episode about Thomas Day, a free black man in a slave state. http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/video/3000/3011.html