Traditional woodworking tools & molding planes
Our objective at Red Rose Reproductions is the recreation of historic woodworking hand tools, with an emphasis on side escapement molding and specialty planes. Other tools we produce include winding sticks, bench hooks, a portable workbench, and tools made by Acer-Ferrous Toolworks, which include wooden vice screws and the sector. For the plane maker, we stock quarter sawn beech billets, tapered bench plane irons, and full-scale hollow and round plane plans. Also, classes for making a pair of hollow and rounds are offered several times a year.
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For those interested in making their own drawer bottom plane, I am now offering a kit that includes full size plans, a tapered O-1 steel iron, two piece skate, and mounting screws. The iron is precision machined to size but will need to be heat treated and sharpened. Kit is $75 plus shipping.
I have quarter sawn beech billets stocked also, including the 1 1/4” size for this plane.
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After prepping the base pieces, the large rabbits are cut in on the table saw, doing first all the vertical cuts followed by the horizontal. The cuts are cleaned up with a rabbet block plane. The two spacer blocks are left as a single piece for these steps and then cut to length, leaving then 1/4” over length. Glue up is tricky as everything needs to be clamped in two directions. I simply mark the length of the center space between the two end blocks with pencil lines and visually glue them to the lines. The space does not have to be exact. Later the entire base will be cut to final length.
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I thought I’d try to document the process of building the miter jack vises pretty closely for those wishing to build their own.
First up is stock prep for the base. All these parts have been jointed and planed to the same thickness, but not to final thickness yet, and the two long rails have been ripped 1/4” oversize in width. The parts are all from the same piece of wood for good grain matching. I make sure that the grain direction is the same on all pieces to help when hand planing later. I have hand jointed the edges on the insides of the long rails and the spacer piece, checking each one for square. Accuracy is important throughout the build process.
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