Tote Making

[Randy in Calgary [OP]]

I was puttering in the shop and surveying the hardwood scraps situation (I'm a hoarder) and decided to use up a couple shorts of cherry. I never liked the flaking finish on the knob or the poor job on the homemade tote of my Stanley #4. So I made some new ones from the cherry. Both tote and knob are glue ups, which is not ideal, but hey I was using scraps and killing time. Turned out not too bad. A few more coats of finish and good to go.



I'm hoping the cherry eventually turns as dark as the tote I made for my Dad's old broken down #6 Foreplane that I restored.

[Doug G]

Scrap wood is the best wood. Well done.

[Randy in Calgary [OP]]

Scrap wood is the best wood. Well done.

Aye. No stress. Nothin' to lose!

[Brian @ Muir]

Looking good Randy

Brian

[Wally in Calgary]

Aye. No stress. Nothin' to lose!

Put it out in the sun a few times and it will get nice and dark. Even a sunny window will do.

[Egon]

Nice work.

[KenL]

Those prettied up your older plane very nicely and will surely do the same for the #4; great use for some scrap.

I made a knob for my Stanley jack plane from glued up scrap cherry but it is unusable. Once the finish hit it you can see the joint a mile away even though I grain matched the wood. I used a low viscosity epoxy which, it seems, soaked into the cherry enough to highlight the join so for attempt number 2, I will likely make it from solid 2 inch stock. I have a question for you; what glue did you use? I can see the join in yours but it is barely visible and so much nicer than my feeble effort. I have a lot of 1 inch cherry scrap that I would love to use for this since I have 3 sets to make.

Ken

[Randy in Calgary [OP]]

Those prettied up your older plane very nicely and will surely do the same for the #4; great use for some scrap.

I made a knob for my Stanley jack plane from glued up scrap cherry but it is unusable. Once the finish hit it you can see the joint a mile away even though I grain matched the wood. I used a low viscosity epoxy which, it seems, soaked into the cherry enough to highlight the join so for attempt number 2, I will likely make it from solid 2 inch stock. I have a question for you; what glue did you use? I can see the join in yours but it is barely visible and so much nicer than my feeble effort. I have a lot of 1 inch cherry scrap that I would love to use for this since I have 3 sets to make.

Ken

Titebond Original.

[Doug G]

Those prettied up your older plane very nicely and will surely do the same for the #4; great use for some scrap.

I made a knob for my Stanley jack plane from glued up scrap cherry but it is unusable. Once the finish hit it you can see the joint a mile away even though I grain matched the wood. I used a low viscosity epoxy which, it seems, soaked into the cherry enough to highlight the join so for attempt number 2, I will likely make it from solid 2 inch stock. I have a question for you; what glue did you use? I can see the join in yours but it is barely visible and so much nicer than my feeble effort. I have a lot of 1 inch cherry scrap that I would love to use for this since I have 3 sets to make.

Ken

Why would a visible joint make the knob for a plane unusable? Unattractive maybe but isn't it still functional?

[KenL]

Correct Doug, unusable is probably not the best description! Too damned ugly would better express the situation since I only made the new parts to replace the ugly, old factory black painted ones! To satisfy my criteria for these pieces, beauty is essential, else why bother?

Ken

[Doug G]

Correct Doug, unusable is probably not the best description! Too damned ugly would better express the situation since I only made the new parts to replace the ugly, old factory black painted ones! To satisfy my criteria for these pieces, beauty is essential, else why bother?

Ken

Sorry Ken, I was just pulling your chain. The beauty of making something from scrap, if you're not happy with the result it becomes scrap squared.

[Randy in Calgary [OP]]

I think they make a handsome pair.

The #4 is not the same vintage or quality of the #6, (80's or 90's vs likely 40's or 50's) but it still works really well.

[Wally in Calgary]

I think they make a handsome pair.

The #4 is not the same vintage or quality of the #6, (80's or 90's vs likely 40's or 50's) but it still works really well.

Maybe a little buffing with some wax and left in the window for a while would make it feel and look very timely. LOL. FWIW

[Randy in Calgary [OP]]

Maybe a little buffing with some wax and left in the window for a while would make it feel and look very timely. LOL. FWIW

Ha ha funny. That’s exactly the plan!

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Ha ha funny. That’s exactly the plan!

Just hope the 2 pieces are from the same piece of Cherry, as I made a box and a lid from what looked the same Cherry, then they darkened up, one more than the other