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Main Boards => The Bowyer's Bench => Topic started by: Justin Falon on September 06, 2008, 11:14:00 PM
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Where do you guys buy toothing plane blades or toothing planes??? Thanks.
justin
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3Rivers has both. A good sharp hack saw blade will do the job if you are only doing a few. Pat
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Pat has it exactly, I use the hacksaw blade regardless of how many surfaces need doing.
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Here's another idea, hair clipper blades. I hone the edge to flatten slightly then hone an angle like a scraper plane blade. I then mount the blade to a large dowel via the two mounting holes in the blade. Also cutting the dowel face at an angle similar to a scraper plane helps in controlling the tool
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I thought of the hair clipper idea a few months back but never mentioned it because I thought these guys would laugh at me. Looks pretty similiar to toothing iron blade I must admit!!!
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Here is another place that sells both. you have to click under bow making tools.
http://www.missouritrading.com/
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You can order toothing plane blades from Woodcraft or Lie-Nielsen. The blades that Woodcraft sells are from Lie-Nielsen. Buy a book on making Wooden Planes and you are set. Takes me about 4 hours to make a plane but I have made 6. The planes will smooth out the wood better than hacksaw blades because the sole of the plane levels out the wood.
Dan
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Here is were I bought mine...
http://www.traditionalwoodworker.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=toothing&categories_id=&inc_subcat=1&manufacturers_id=&pfrom=&pto=&dfrom=&dto=&x=0&y=0
"Toothing Plane by E.C. Emmerich"
When I bought the "Replacement Iron - Toothing Plane" a year ago it was $19.95...
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Here is a good tutorial....
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/bowyersjournal/vpost?id=1808515&highlight=toothing
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Highland Hardware in Atlanta has them. They advertise in all of the mags, plus they have a website.
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Lee Valley Tools carries a couple of makes of planes that one can buy toothing blades for.
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Highland carrys the same plane 3Rivers carries for about $40 less. I think I paid $89.
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I too bought mine from Traditional Woodworker. great price and great service.
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Woodcraft item number 04A17 also.
I would also add that while you can prep surfaces with the hacksaw blade...I even did a tutorial on it here El cheapo toothing scraper (http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=031594) , but an actual toothing plane can serve many other purposes. I even taper slats with mine.