Contd from Rabbets are in season
Serendipitously theres an article by Jim Tolpin in the November/December issue of Woodenboat magazine about rabbet planes. In it he reviews a number of different types: shoulder planes, moving fillisters, whacking great carriage makers planes (what sort of clinker lethiathans does this man build?) woodies, side rabbet planes and little bull nose planes.
He identifies three uses for them in a wooden boat: rabbets, gains and fillets (cross grain rabbets).
Gains are the sloping rabbets at the ends of the planks that I was most interested in when I was choosing a plane. I took Phil Edwardss advice about this but neither of us considered one important factor that Tolpin doesnt discuss either: moving fillister planes only cut one way.
My lovely Phily Planes moving fillister cuts beautiful rabbets from right to left. This means that gains at the left end of a board are childs play. Gains at the right hand side are a mess. No plane likes cutting up into the grain and this one is no exception.
The solution is simple. Buy a left handed counterpart for another £240.
Perhaps not.
On a recent trip to Maine I paid a visit to the Lie Nielsen showroom. I spent a happy couple of hours testing dozens of tools and established the following:
I dont have enough tools.I dont have enough time.
I dont have enough money.
I do, however, now own a very large shoulder plane which, despite its low angle iron for cutting end grain, cuts very good gains. Particularly with a fence clamped on top of the plank.
The two planes work well together. The moving fillister will cut a perfect rabbet and an excellent gain at the left hand end and then a rather ropey gain at the right which the shoulder plane will then clean up.
Happiness, it seems, is an overflowing toolbox.
I learnt one other important lesson: take a first aid kit with you when shopping for hand tools.
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