in today's video i'll show you how i made this wooden plane um no not that one but this one it's a scraper plane which is basically a card scraper just like this one but it's housed in a plane body this is a rough sketch i made and it's similar in design to the jack plane that i made a while back i've picked out a couple of pieces of wood to get started one of them is camphor laurel and the other is a piece of brush box floorboard before i put the piece of cam floral through the thicknesser i'll roughly flatten the one side by taking off a couple of the corners it doesn't need to be perfect as long as it's fairly flat i made templates of all the pieces which i'll put a link to in the description i'm no expert and i've never used the scraper plane before but i thought i'd tell you why you would use one when you use a cabinet scraper in your hand it does a great job but you lose any accuracy but because a scraper plane has a sole then it works just like a regular plane apart from it scrapes rather than cuts and the reason you may want to scrape the wood rather than plane it is with any wood that tears out easily camphor laurel can tear out with its interlock grain but this piece is particularly difficult so i'll sand it instead the handle left like this would be very weak with the grain going across it so to strengthen it i'll glue a dowel through the handle and add some grain going in the opposite direction and along the handle before i glue the dowel in i'll carve a groove from one end to the other this will allow the glue to escape and let the dowel seat to the bottom of the hole next i'll start to shape the handle and i'll do that with a carving knife that's the shape pretty well roughed out now i'll start refining it if you're ready to add new woodworking skills to
your toolbox then join me inside the maker's mob for my upcoming kumiko challenge starting june the 18th i'll show you everything you need to know so that you'll be able to incorporate kumiko design techniques into your woodworking projects to learn this unique woodworking skill alongside the entire maker's mob community simply click the link in the description below to take advantage of the 75% off pre-launch special before the doors close on sunday june the 13th and we'll all see you there on the inside the next pieces are part of the handle assembly and they will get glued to either side of the handle the handle was 25mm thick and these pieces need to be 15mm and i should have probably have cut those down to thickness before i put the templates on i've left some extra material on the front of the handle and on these pieces so i'll transfer the lines off the template onto the underside and i'm doing that so i can keep them lined up while i'm shaping them that's the top part shape to the same shape as the handle now i need to remove the side pieces \from the handle and sand the rest of it next i need to cut a piece from the brush box floorboard this will be a support for an adjustment screw but for now i just needed to mark out a mortise for where that piece will live that's the handle just about done so now i'll plane down some of the brush box for the sides and for the sole of the plane now that the sides are cut out i'll cut a piece to width for the sole the sole will be in two pieces so i'll cut them to length now leaving a little bit extra on to play with i'm cutting one end of the front piece at a slight angle and that's around 15 degrees while the glue on the back section is drying i'll start working on the front section i'm flattening one edge so i can run it along the fence of the table saw it's still the same piece of camphor laurel but this section is planing slightly better i'm using the front piece of the sole to set the position of the fence now i'll let the front section set and get back to the handle section i'll be adding a knob to the front of the plane and that's why i've left that flat section i'll cut the last piece from the camper laurel in two and then glue it together to make the knob out of it's a shame it's not made from one piece but none of the camphor laurel that i have is wide enough i didn't do the best job of the knob i got a catch here that i need to fill and also the glue joints started slightly coming apart as i didn't leave it long enough to dry even though it's not the best it is still usable though next i'll glue the plane together i'll leave the knob off for now as it will be easier to sand the front of the plane without it there it's really starting to look like a plane and now i'll start shaping the sides down to match the handle section i've decided to round the back of the plane just to add a little more style to it and make it look less square i'm not sure how this is going to
go and hopefully i don't ruin it but i'm going to cut chamfers down each side so fingers crossed it works out that's one side done and i reckon it looks great now to do the other side and make it match the first one that was a lot of sanding but before i put any finish on i'll flatten the sole first now it's ready for finish and for that i'm using hard wax oil i'm not doing the sole now but i will be putting paste wax over the whole thing later and i'll put that directly onto the sole while that's drying i've decided to remake the front knob as i didn't think it suited the plane i found a similar looking piece of camphor laurel and made it off camera i reckon that looks much better and the edge on the top of the knob i think matches the chamfers on the side of the plane next i'll start making the frog and i've already marked that out next i need to drill holes all the way
through for stainless steel pins to go through one is 6mm in diameter and the other one is 4.5mm i'm going to do this on my milling machine as they need to be fairly accurate my drill press is far from accurate but if i were to use it i would have drilled in halfway from either side with the frog in position i'm marking the location of where the 6mm pin will go and then i'm transferring those marks onto the outside of the plane ready to drill that fits and works perfectly now i'll start working on the adjustment screw that needs a hole drilling through the head for the 4.5mm pin to pass through there's barely enough room to do that and i probably should have used a smaller pin i'll give it a go though and see what happens i'm breaking through the underneath the head but that's okay i think this should just about work i'm not drilling all the way through because i don't want to hit the jaws of the vice that works great now i'll start rounding over the top next i'll make an opening for the head of the adjustment screw to fit into now i need to find a position to drill a hole in the support piece for the adjustment screw to pass through now i need two nuts and i'll make those from this piece of bronze i don't have a metal lathe so i'll manage on my wood lathe it's not ideal but where there's a will there's a way there's no accuracy here but i'll have character and i'm happy with that homemade look next i'll knurl them using my homemade knurling jig if you haven't seen the video and you're interested on how i made it i'll put a link above it isn't perfect and i didn't want to put too much pressure on and crush it but it came out half decent and good enough for a homemade tool that's not too bad at all i cleaned up the next one and then knurled that one off camera i'm cleaning them up a little now but i'll sand them to a higher grit later on i may have to take a little off the adjustment screw but i'll see how that goes and if needed i'll do that later on for the blade i'm going to use this old plane iron but first i need to make a lever cap for it and i'll do that from this piece of 10mm stainless steel flat bar my m12 tap was dull it was a cheap one so i thought it was about time i got a decent tap and die set and what a difference it made it was a real pleasure to use for the lever cap screw i'm using this m12 stainless steel bolt that i already rounded the head off it's from a past project that didn't get used and it didn't get knurled to attach the lever cap to the frog i need a couple of small brackets which i'm also making from stainless steel one end of the bracket goes over the pins in the frog to attach the other end i'll do that with screws so i need to drill and tap holes into the sides of the lever cap i need better looking bolts than that so i'll turn these ones into domed slotted screws the last piece of the puzzle and it's the blade this is a pretty cool one but the slot in the middle is right where the lever cap screw goes so i've decided to modify it i'll cut a section out of the middle and then weld it back together the weld is nowhere near the cutting edge so it won't affect the temper just to be sure though straight after welding it i dipped the edge in water not the whole thing just the edge and also the edge was cool enough to hold straight after welding but the heat may have radiated back towards the edge and that's the reason why i dipped it i didn't do a great job of the weld but it was okay and good enough i probably should have tig welded it or at least use gas instead of using my welder setup with flux core wire to prepare a scraper plane blade it's the same as a regular plane blade apart from the angle of the bevel it needs to be 45 degrees instead of 25 degrees the blade should work perfectly well straight from sharpening it and it isn't necessary but i am putting the slightest burr on the edge with a burnisher that's all the pieces made now i just need to take it apart finish all the pieces put it back together and try it out don't worry though we're nearly there and i'll get through this part quickly all finished so let's give it a go and see how it works first i need to work out what angle the blade is performing best at and then roughly matching that angle on the frog of the plane then after i've made sure the adjustment nuts are tight i then put slight pressure on the top of the blade while tightening the lever cup screw and it's ready to go any fine adjustments can now be made with a small hammer with very light taps or the angle of the frog can be adjusted too if the blade is chattering then the angle is set too high and if it's creating sawdust then the angle is set too low that's working fantastic and the finish on the camphor laurel is amazing i've never been able to plane a piece of camphor laurel like this without any tear out as the grain runs it all over the place in different directions i'm super happy with how it turned out and hopefully you like it too i've put together a playlist of other planes that i've made if you're interested in checking that out hopefully you enjoyed the video and it wasn't too long if you did please like and subscribe thanks for watching and i'll see you on the next one
