Krenovian Jointer Plane

After browsing through every page of the Inside Passage School of Fine Woodworking website, I discovered several things...

-I love the Krenovian style and methodology
-Dowels don't seem as icky as I once believed
-I want to make some knife hinges and wall hangers
-Grain "graphics" as they call them, and rift sawn wood are incredible
-I'm building a small jointer plane, I must have this for shooting small long grain pieces and other trimming tasks.

That let me to browse some of my wood collection (don't worry I use it) located in my office. At the end of my workday Monday I snatched up a piece of beech I've had for some months and ripped it into a body and sides, I did the rest of the work at home. The iron is a Lee Valley replacement blade for a Stanley #60 1/2. in O1 steel. I have another identical iron, destined for a small smoother or gutter plane for coopered doors etc.

The pins, wedge and cross pin are made from East Indian Rosewood, turning stock from eBay. The pins are split and whittled to shape. The finish is orange wax, with High Gloss Formby's finish on the wedge. The mouth is super tight and even, I love the colors and contrast. I've gotten some great test shavings and surfaces, but I still need some time in the shop with it before another review. Enough yap, here's the proof.

   
The color is significantly more orange, and the rosewood is richer in person. I'll fiddle with the lighting during the workshop use photoshoot. All in all, I'm extremely excited about the first Krenov plane I've built.

Continuing Work on the Key Cabinet

The basement in my housemates shop is finally cleared a bit, I have some room to work now. I don't have all my tools in the new space, but I have enough for this small project. This post is mostly to keep me writing and working, as I've written very little in the last few months.

This first picture I'm almost embarrassed about, it's not fine furniture, nor really complicated. Just little 4mm X 14mm X 60mm strips, six of them, two each in mahoganies of different vintages. They are samples for an instrument maker to test harmonics/vibration durability of the different ages of mahogany. They were fun, and allowed me to practice working to tight tolerances, most of the measurements are within .02mm, for those of you like me who only work in inches, or to scribed components that equates to about .0008" or a little less than half the thickness of a sheet of common computer paper).    

Nextly, here is a shot of the lumber cut and resting for the key cabinet (Blk. Walnut) and a pair of Krenovian shop bents (sawhorses, Ash). The little junk on top of the left hand pile is an assortment of sticker stock I cut out of the scrap ash from the bents. More to come, today I resawed some pine to mock up the door and muntins when the time comes.