I have some adjusting to do. Shavings from only half of the blade. It isn't quite square to the sole. Blade has no wiggle room between the cheeks to adjust the blade angle.
I gave it a 1/16" while cutting parts, but that 1/16" evaporated somewhere.
I checked the new blade for square, and it's square.
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TowMater 2/9/09
Well I was gonna give er up for tonight, but I'm ready to see this finished.
Besides, there's still some coffee in the pot.
Dusted off the small grinder and a -cough-cough- hacksaw and finished the brass rod up.
Hacksaw was easier to retreive at the moment. Grinder and cutoff wheel has seemed to have evaped for now.
Rounded over one edge, then took it to the 3M buffing/deburring wheel and buffed one end and the length of rod I need. Marked the length, cut it off with the -cough- hacksaw then buffed up the other end.
Have several Honey-Do's on the list tomorrow, and more firewood to cut. So probably won't get a lot done on this tomorrow.
All is left [I think] is shaping the body, flattening the sloe, and getting the blade square to the sole.
And of course some kind of finish.
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TowMater 2/9/09
Torn between the shape of these 2 Krenov style planes, I'll do a partial of both.
Drew some reference lines and took the body back to the bandsaw. Anyone need a sled?
Cutting off the corners
I started to go the the edge sander and get things smoothed up, but stopped and decided I should use some hand tools on this. So out came the block plane and rasps.
Locust works real well with hand tools. Cuts easy, no chipping out.
Trial fit of body for my hands. I rasped a small notch out for my thumb. Why? Just thought it was a good idea. Yea I drew a little blood somewhere.
A little sanding and I'll say the body is done as far as final prep for some finish. I left a few bandsaw and rasp marks in it.
Tomorrow brings another day to get the blade squared to the sole, and flatten the sole. If it needs flattening. I haven't even checked it yet. Sitting on a stable flat surface, it doesn't rock any direction.
I'm happy with the fit of my hands, so I'll stop here for the night, er,early morning.
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TowMater 2/9/09
I spent about 20 minutes getting the blade square to sole.
What I did was first check the sole flatness. No problem there. So I marked the sole with a pencil down the length of both sides. Taking a sheet of 120 grit paper, placing it on a flat metal surface [edge sander table] then slightly tilting the plane to one side [the side that the blade did not protrude], slowing sanding back and forth, and at the same time letting the body down across the width of the plane.
This left me with pencil marks only on the side that the blade protruded from originally.
Then I ran the plane body on the sheet of paper with the sole in full contact.
This squared everything up.
I managed to get some nice shavings, thick and thin, some are see through, from a piece of cherry wood.
I'm done building. All that is left is some finish.
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TowMater 2/9/09
Just thought it was a good idea. Yea I drew a little blood somewhere. 
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