How thick of a hardwood board should I start with? 3/4"? Going to buy a hardwood board tomorrow night.
Thanks
Foam mo betta
I love me some Matty handplanes!
Gunkie-
Here’s a crude one, 3/4" mystery wood gifted to me and roughed out on the road in Florida. It still needs to see a sander and some finish. The piece of shell is from the same trip.
You both need to look up Surffoils on here.
mattwho, how thick and do I see a stringer in one of those?
jrandy, thanks for the verification.
Monkstar1, I will certainly look up ‘surffoils’
Thanks for the help!
http://www.swaylocks.com/forums/1st-handplane-attempt
Hobbs posted up some wooden handplanes on the 1st attempt thread and helped to inspire Surffoils to share his current work
Surffoils handplane thread is pretty unreal, I would reccomend checking that out for sure.
I agree with Matt, I make mine out of old broken boards. I make them more for the fun of resin tint experimentation and pinstriping than anything else, really. I tend to keep the stringers in them. About 15" long, 8" wide and 1.5-1" thickness. I like using cork on the deck too, I think it makes them look cool. You can make/use just about anything though, I know people who love bodysurfing with an in-n-out red food tray! As long as you’re having fun, I reckon.
Forgive the hokey pictures that are the second two, I have those up on my IG.
Before pinstriping/gloss-coat
After striping/gloss-coat
The spacy see through business is all PS, it’s not actually ethereally see through
Started using volan on this one
That last one is a glue up, however, with no wooden stringer (just q-cell, resin and a little smoke tint). Anyways, just my 2 cents. Take care and have fun-
Nice pinstripes!
Beauty!
For a basic handplane 3/4" - 1" should be OK. I recently had a request for a ‘mega handplane/mini paipo’ sort of thing. I think the dimensions were supposed to be 24" X 14" X 1". I had some wedged offcuts leftover from some EPS cuts I used. Since one end was thicker than the other I decided to ‘spoon’ out the front. The guy specifically did not want a handle of any type so the spooned out deck provides a spot to place his hand. It also features an inverse sidecut and reversed tail rocker. It’s big enough he can also pull up on his elbow.
