I want to introduce you to something that I think will really excite you if
you've got a stanley or a record rebate plane like this
it was once called or it's got different titles you can convert this and make the
most amazing plane that will get the bulk of your waste away just like a
scrub plane so it actually becomes a scrub plane like I've converted this in
the past it's got a wider radius on it because it's a wide plane blade but this
one is much narrower it's about a half inch narrower than this one and it makes
an amazing scrub plane how do we do this take these off we don't need these ever
again unless we're going to use the plane for rebaiting and for scrub work
so if you look in here let me get the blade there's my blade and I've got a
radius on there that makes this the plane it parallels any scrub
plan that I've ever used it's wonderful so that's what we're going to do to this
to do that I've got a couple of plane blades here this is a brand new one that
I bought this one was a brand new old stock secondhand one you can still get
these you can buy them secondhand quite inexpensively but I bought two planes
here I bought these for about ten pounds each on eBay it didn't have any other
fittings it didn't have the fence or anything so I'm gonna make a dedicated
scrub but if you don't want a dedicated scrub just get a blade and you can
convert it yourself this one's never been touched still got
all the authentic rust with it you don't have to do very much to this but what
you do have to do is create the radius so let's do that first I'm just using
this can and I'm equi distancing the gap here and the gap on this and then making
a pencil line as a guide for me like this now this is two and a 1/8 radius
okay so I'm going to grind this I got my grinder ready
Safety's your concern as well as mine just
wear your safety glasses make sure you've got all the bells and whistles
in place so I'm gonna grind this now the reason I'm grinding it instead
of filing it is because this is too hard the steel is too hard to file so I'm
gonna take the corners down first I'm using water in a cup here just to quench
cool you can put this against the rest if you want to I find it easier this way
already I've got a radius coming that is gonna be exactly what I want this radius
could be really just about any radius once you've got the bulk of the steel
down you can see I'm not following the bevel yeah I'm
gonna get the rake of the bevel next keep quenching every few seconds and now
I'm working on the bulk of the bevel
like this so keep quenching until I get the bevel all the way across the arc of
the radius that I want
this is to prevent the steel from burning once it burns you've lost a
tempering the steel
so keep going keep going till we've got a nice even arc on your bevel
so it's coming quite nicely going all the way up so this is about 25 to 30
degrees bevel that we normally put on to any cutting edge so it's no different I'm
eyeballing mine I've done it for so many years and it comes out pretty close
once we got this down we go to the sharpening stones that could be all
stones or diamond whatever you have
little burn there I'm not going to worry about it I did burn it because I didn't
go to the water soon enough the good probability is not going to be soft
it'll be fine but we'll see so there's my main bevel done I feel good about
that so now I'm gonna go to my sharpening stone
just slow this down a little quicker now we're ready for what we're probably more
familiar with and that is we're going to horn this bevel I'm going to show you
a technique you may never have seen before you may have seen it before I'm
going to show you two methods this is just to get this converted here so
there's my bevel what I do I can either roll this this way across the bevel but I
prefer this figure of eight I start on this corner push and I'll make a figure
of eight and as I'm doing this I'm rotating the blade so every edge it's
like a continuous holding of that bevel and it works great so that's putting
that initial bevel on there the actual cutting edge and I have gone
all the way across corner to corner now I'm going on this one same again so
speed up the process it's super fast to do this
now this doesn't have a cap iron like you would have on a conventional bench plane
so what you can do with this drop it on here I'm just going straight onto this
is the rust coming off it here now I'm just going straight onto the flat face
to see how it looks and look at that it's already gone all the way up to the
edge so I'm happy with that but if he isn't you can lift this just a fraction
and just follow the radius around this way and that will give you the burr can
you see I can see there's a burr here all the way along the edge and when I
take that off this blade is ready to cut so now I install this into the plane and
I'm ready to go maybe if you like to which I do you might want to just use a
strop polish out the bevel a little bit it's less necessary for a scrub plane but
it just takes so little time so this has been charged with chromium oxide or
aluminium oxide it's just a buffing compound and abrasive that
polish that bevel pull and pull and we've got this plane ready to go now I'm
going to show you how it works so I've left all the rust on I've not cleaned
this up yet because I want to show you how simple this is and how effective the
plane is so this has never been used in donkey's years so this had a lever in
the back here this stiff here just been rusted in not been used for years I'm
going to just move this up and down a bit drop of oil in here just to free up
that movement hopefully I don't think I've ever had one a stiff is this one
there we go definitely better I love this I did this with a plane some time
back and I found it was the best scrub plane I think I've ever used so so this
really is very reminiscent of the original Stanley scrub plane from from
decades ago nearly a century ago now let's see how this works I got a piece
of ash here this is rough sawn let's see what we've got
so I've got the blade in I'm protruding slightly in the middle new bench, see what happens here
never been used before never tried it before this particular plane, you go diagonally to take off a rough start off
so that's it that's basically a scrub plane in action all I've got to do now
is clean off the rust get this ready for other purposes besides scrub planing and
I think you'll enjoy this it's a great plane to have in your kit