Making a Wooden Rabbet / Shoulder Plane

I recycle an old German and African plane, reuse the blades, mechanic and wood plus carelian curly birch. Woodworking with hand tools, no power tools beside a press drill. Open the full video description for more information!

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-How did you get the idea for this plane?
One day in the sawmill of a friend, during lunch break we have been warming us on the fire. There was a piece of firewood (visakoivu/carelian birch), which simply did not want to burn. It had other plans in its mind. After thinking about it, it decided to come with me. Getting known with its new home it found two friends and after a while they had decided to get into some kind of joint venture. One morning, they had been waiting on my workbench asking my hands to assist them for this step, a life transformation.
Well, that is how it all began...

- What kind of wood-glue do you use?
I would like to use ecological glues and my workshop is not frost free.
Fishglue can be frozen and melted without loss of quality. It is very strong, stays flexible and can be opened with warm water if needed later on. This results that it is not water proof. It is a waste product and is biodegradable.
I also use alcohol based wood adhesive. It can be used till -20°C. It is liquid plastic, no ecological but the best i found til now if it needs to be water resistant.

- Why you wear these fancy skiing-gloves while working?
I hardly manage to keep this workshop above 0°C. So, specially in the morning some gloves are helpful. Somehow these old skiing gloves are simply the most comfortable ones i found till now.

- Why to use poppyseed and tung oil instead of linseed oil?
Advantage is, that they do not turn yellowish with time compared to linseed oil. Disadvantage is, that specially poppyseed oil dries very slow; which can on the other hand be an advantage: it goes deeper into the wood before drying.