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This Chariot is the last item in the series of low angle planes I have been making recently. I have only made a few of these planes and that was a long time ago in my early days of plane making. Then...
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During the working of this A28 plane I have been neglecting this blog but now I am ready to update which I will do over the next few weeks. All the sections I use are cut out of stock material...
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Progress on my A28 Chariot Plane This picture shows some idea of all the work that goes into this plane. Unless you have done it yourself you can never imagine the effort and thought that goes into...
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Final tweaking and polishing before assembly Once assembled there is no access
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I am occasionally asked how to dovetail. It is a bit of a cheeky question and it would take me several months or more full time to teach this properly. Sometimes people seem to forget I am running a...
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Despite having some part made infills which had been drying for 20 years, I decided that I preferred this piece of rosewood (which has also been in my workshop for a long time, and I have very little...
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It has been a long time but the Chariot Plane is now finished. I have some No 983 planes to complete and then I am moving on to something new.
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Chariot Plane I find that I try to avoid using the term A28 because there is a lot more here than on the original A28 plane. These six are the last I will make as the cost of making is too high. One of...
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