Cutting Stringer in Nose with Rocker

General Discussion
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I have a stanley plane, a micro plane and a medium plane to cut the stringer in the boards, but when I have good rocker in the nose I can’t get a good even cut on the deck.

I thought the micro would work good but it takes deep chunks out of the stringer. Checked archives but got a lot of how to shape rocker posts.

Any ideas.

By the way did you see that mint epoxy resin swirl that was posted earlier.

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A spoke shave may be the go.

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Hey ny_surfer,

Try looking into spoke shaves. They are a type of hand plane with a really small base. They are great for those hard to reach concaves. Eric

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I have a mini plane and a spokeshave… no problems with the mini plane but except in curvy nose rockers, the spokeshave works, but doesn’t do the best job…

When I have some cash to spare I will try to get one of these…

The page link is here…

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=55065&cat=1,41182

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I use a microplane that is box shaped and fits into a handle, I have two different versions one coarse and the other fine, they work great for doing this once you figure out the technique. I also have a half-round microplane blade that fits in the same holder and works great for this task.

But I also have a brass luthiers palm planer that has a curved base in both directions. To date I have not found a nose flip that I could not get this planer to fit into just fine. The other nice thing about it is that when you plan the stringer down it is actually planing a shallow groove, so then when you fine sand it the stringer ends up nice and flush. The blade on this planer is a bear to sharpen but it does not get dull that quickly because it is typically only used for short periods of time. It is a very small planer and beautifully made.

-Robin

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Or use a disk sander. Carefully. Loehr shows the technique in his Epoxy DVD. Hard pad. Low rpm. Light touch. Do it in several steps. Do it all at once and the salt from your tears will foul the epoxy.

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I like spokeshaves.

My dad makes violins, and has an impressive collection of beautiful tools. I’ll try and borrow one of those little planes next time i’m home.