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Snips... ;-)Sadness fills my heart... My fellow Galoots,
Today was a pretty good day, so I decided to get in some shop time. I took an arm load of planes out to the shop to run them through their paces. All was well, hanging curly shavings on the kid's ears, big fun. Then I went back in to get my "show only" planes. These are planes that I just do not use. Not that they're all that valuable, I just keep some for the pleasure of knowing I have them. Took another arm load out to the shop. Big fun, shavings flying off of a 30" 2x6.(now a 2x4 1/4) Then I picked up my big #8 that I've never used. There was always in the back of my mind, two cracks. One on each side, running along the edge of the frog on the outer edge of the mouth. Well, I turned it upside down to set the depth and noticed that the back of the mouth was bent down between the cracks. I carefully set the front of the sole on my 2x6 and moved the plane up to the end of the board. The back of the mouth was hanging down a full 1/32" below the top surface. I removed the frog. Rust Bugs had set up shop in between the frog and the sole and had forced the metal apart. What I do not understand is that the plane looks pretty good everywhere else. No real rust to speak of. The wood is near perfect, the blade is clean on top, but looks terrible on the back down near the mouth. How does rust get so selective? The metal is so thin at the back of the mouth, It must not have been too hard to crack. Seriously, why just in that one place? There is probably 98% of the japanning intact everywhere else. Tom Ford in KY, fixing to do some serious cleaning and some careful lapping on a big #8. Please do not send flowers. ;-D January 27, 2006 |
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