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Readers Gallery
From Fine Woodworking's Tools & Shops Issue #174
Jim Moon
Moon, a physician, based this Brazilian-rosewood plow plane on the highly collectible Sandusky centerwheel plow plane featured in Art of Fine Tools (The Taunton Press, 1998). The knobs, adjusters, and centerwheel are turned brass, and the wheel adjusts the fence on a threaded rosewood bolt. The skate is steel. The remaining details are made of woolly-mammoth ivory, a material that still is unearthed in Alaska and Siberia. The plane (7 in. wide by 12 in. long by 9 1⁄2 in. tall) accommodates interchangeable cutters from 1⁄8 in. wide to 3⁄4 in. wide. It has a shellac finish.
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Andrew L. Rivard
During his second year in medical school, Rivard enrolled in a woodworking class and made this stout 11 1⁄2-in.-long mallet with a 4 1⁄4-in.-dia. head, based on one featured in a book by Chris Pye. “The size and weight of the mallet were chosen for carving the hardest of woods,” Rivard said. The handle is bulletwood, a straight and sturdy species historically used for ship masts. An ebony wedge secures the lignum vitae head to the handle. The mallet has a linseed-oil finish.
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Adam Cherubini
Cherubini, a master joyner at Pennsbury Manor Joyner’s Shop in Morrisville, Pa., built this tool chest (18 in. wide by 48 in. long by 21 in. tall) after researching 18th-century examples. It includes a number of period elements such as a single till, iron strap hinges, a crab lock, and rope handles. The chest is constructed of tulip poplar with a pine bottom. The till is made of mahogany, and the box handles are maple. The tool chest is finished with milk paint and beeswax.
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Garrett Hack
Frequently on the road due to his busy teaching schedule, Hack built these small molding planes for his traveling demonstrations. On the left is a bead plane (1 1/8 in. thick by 7 1/2 in. long) crafted from curly maple with a rosewood wedge and a snakewood skate. The roundover plane (1 1/8 in. thick by 8 1/4 in. long) on the right is constructed entirely of rosewood. Hack heat-treated and shaped the blades using steel from an old plane blade. |
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