Hi,
- Any advice for thicknessing Indian rosewood with hand plane(s) for back and sides ? For now, it is taking me many hours for the back, from 6mm to 2,5mm of thickness. I find it very hard and surely I may have mistakes in adjustments of the hand planes. I am using krenov style hand plane with blade at 45° and secondary bevel at 35° and using my small low angle plane with a blade secondary bevel at 45° (plus 12° from the plane itself = 57°) I use it to rectify the work of the first hand plane.
Any advice is welcome, thank you.
Hi Mario,
Sounds like you are doing all the right things. It is just very hard work doing it by hand with a plane. Rosewood is renowned for being difficult to plane because of the high risk of tear out. The plane has to be set very finely to avoid the tear out which does mean that it takes longer. If you can find a toothed blade that fits your plane that could help. It will help avoid tear out and allow you to plane a bit quicker.
Something like this one.
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I found also in books of lutherie mentions of these toothed blade, I've never used them, but maybe I will try.
Thank you @russ
Plane across the grain to take the thickness down to close to final, leaving about 0.5 mm depending on tear out.Sand or scrape the last part smooth.
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