Thumb planes
Thumb planes
Thumb planes (finger planes)
My personal build of thumb planes.
Funny enough, thumb plane translates “rabeau noisette” in French, which means
hazelnut
plane.
They are simply made from a tutorial I found here on the
Web.
The first ones, I did them using the hard wood I had : chestnut tree, but
turned out to be too soft.
For the second attempt, I found in an antique shop an old wooden planer, made
out of sorb tree (I dont know if that translation is good, it’s “cormier” in
french), that red , very hard wood.
It is indeed the traditional wood here for making plane soles.
So, I cut a little length in that maxi plane to make several of my mini planes
And they are far better.
The blocks are made of ebony for the first.
I have several width, and some have a flat sole, others round sole.
Comments are welcome !
Christophe
Older readers comments
Hello from Clement_