slow plaza
I'm thinking about next projects and am considering making a Krenov style hand plane. I already have a Stanley no. 5 as my only plane.
Taking that in to consideration, what would be the next most useful type of plane to have around (block, fore, jointer, smoother, grooving, etc)?
I will probably only be making small-ish scale things for the foreseeable future (let's say less than 4 feet in length).
viral raven
Smoother by a mile
misty pumice
I'd say smoother edges out jointer, especially in a krenov plane.
After that shoulder or rabbet probably
plain valley
Smoother.
You can already do the work of a jointer, you can't currently do the work of a smoother.
cedar brook
router plane, and you can setup your current plane to work as a smoother
slow plaza
That did cross my mind. I guess I could get a second iron for my Stanley to camber and set the other up straight. Then make a smoother plane body if I get tired of swapping them.
misty pumice
its genuinely worth buying a router plane so you can have different size irons IMO
plain valley
I made a Sellers router plane and the £18 thrift store stanley is so much better.
misty pumice
yea vintage stanley, or new veritas is definitely worth the money. The veritas has some cool attachments and addons.
But making one for now doesn't preclude buying one in the future either
slow plaza
Yeah. That's true. I don't really know what my needs are yet, and I can probably come up with a simple design that would let me swap in different chisels as the blade. We'll see. Sounds like the consensus on "next plane" is smoother or router though. I appreciate the input!
plain valley
Gather designs for each.
Settle on how you'd build each and prepare thus.
Then don't build anything until you need the thing.
Then build the thing you need?
slow plaza
That is the generally pragmatic approach that I would choose, but my time is so limited right now having to make a tool "on the way" might just mean said project never gets done 😄. But I guess that's half of wood working anyway, isn't it