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Colin North
PostPosted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:59 am 
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Old Stanley USA 4 1/2 I bought from ebay cheap had a cracked body, so yesterday afternoon/evening I recycled the frog, blade etc, into a veneer thicknesser after one I saw posted here. (Can't remember the name, but you know who you are, thanks.)
First I've ever had, so tried it out today after the glue dried a bit.
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Chickened out at 6 thou (0.15 mm) in light flame maple, so I can assume it works. [:Y:]


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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.
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Hi, Colin,

Do you have any other pictures of your tool before it was assembled or in process of assembly? I think I understand what you've done there, but I'd like to see more of it. I assume you've fixed the frog to one block and use the regular plane depth adjustment to advance the iron into your veneer--correct?
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Here is a link to a tutorial Chris Paulick did for making one of these. Its on my list of things to build.

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Wow! Nice.
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Specially for you cphanna, all Sapelle except the AWB plate under the business end of the blade
Coach screws (hex head) and wood screws hold the frog to the top block.
Cutting edge is curved on the infeed side and straight for the other half of its width.


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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.
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Colin North
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John Killin wrote:
................. Its on my list of things to build....................

Similar thing here. Got the plane over a year ago, decided what to do with it 8 months ago, just got round to it yesterday.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.
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Thanks, Colin.
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James Orr
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Very cool. Thanks for posting.
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