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Awhile back, I needed to cleanup some silver maple I had in the garage/shop, but my current plane wouldn’t do the trick. So having watched a video of a guy planing boards, I decided to try and make my own Jack Plane. With a little luck and plenty of hand work, the photos attached were the end result. Turns out I’m not totally inept. It works quite well on everything I’ve tried it on so far. Takes a little time to get the iron properly setup, but at a cost of around $3, who cares.
I actually made the plane first, then did the drawings. The iron is missing from the photos, but you know where it goes..
I do have an Autocad drawing available.
That is awesome. How hard was it to make. This is a thing of beauty. Can you pm me the cad or the video of this. I would love to try this.
Great job. Any other info you have on this I would love to see. Looks like a good planner, I need something like this one.
Very nice. How long did it take you to make? On a scale of 1-10 where 10 is hard, how hard is this project to build from scratch?
Its seems there is a lot of interest in making this including myself. Could you post a link to the video or the drawings. I would like to make this planner also.
Folks, I cannot add the drawing file here, so if you’d like them, please PM and I’ll send both the drawing and construction sequence files. Put Jack Plane in the subject line.
PPTG, any way to add a dwg file?
Can you email it to me and I will forward it so it goes to a link and everyone can download it from there.
Done
Well here it is. Everyone wanted ther drawing for the planner. Feeop was nice enough to provide the drawings and some notes about it. The drawings are in autocad, so there is a link to download a free viewer or you can download other free viewers through google.
Drawing – http://www.professional-power-tool-guide.com/forumpics/Planner/JackPlane.dwg
Notes – http://www.professional-power-tool-guide.com/forumpics/Planner/JackPlaneConstruction.txt
Viewer – http://www.professional-power-tool-guide.com/forumpics/Planner/eDrawingsEnglish.exe
Nice work! I think you should mass produce and sign a contract with Home Depot!!