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   mapleman | Oct 01, 2008 08:39pm | #1

   I had no idea - Ron Brese is from New Zealand?

   Lee

    

    

    

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   douglas2cats | Oct 01, 2008 09:12pm | #2

   Nope, but the supplier of the Paua Abalone was. Ron (and rarebear that bored the screw) is from Georgia.

    If you build it he will come.

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   WillGeorge | Oct 01, 2008 09:25pm | #3

   Thanks for the Jatoba curls picture. It really CAN be done! Amazing! I would have never believed that.

   I use Jatoba all the time. I love it! However with the planes I have, I have to stick with just planing the edges.. None of my planes will do that! No matter how I sent my planes all I get is tear-out or the plane just slides over the surface like an Ice-Skate. Same with Purpleheart.

   I end up using my hand scrapers!

   Can you provide info on that plane in the picture?

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   douglas2cats | Oct 02, 2008 01:24am | #4

   Will

   Believe it or not, I got no tearout going either with or against the grain. At least looking at either face, this piece is tough to read grain direction on so I was going both ways and I still cant tell. This plane has a very tight mouth so you can only take shavings so thick before trying to adjust much further would close the mouth. But as thick as I could in both directions - no tearout. 

   This is an early prototype version of what's shown here, except for the abalone that I added.

   http://www.breseplane.com/Full_Size_Smoothing_Planes.html If you build it he will come.

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   WillGeorge | Oct 03, 2008 01:45am | #5

   Beautiful planes! A bit out of my price class thought. Not knocking the price though. You pay for what you get! Sure wish I would have seen those Jatoba shavings about 5 years ago. I'd have order the plane in a heart beat. I had money then!

   Very limited funds these days so I'll just dream of having one.