046 Planemaking - the boxing

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Hello my friends! As i told in the begining of the video it will be the boxing episode. But wtf is this boxing? Let me explain using Caleb James article about it: "For any of you that are not familiar with the term boxing it has to do with the wood that is inserted into high wear portions of the sole with a very hard wearing wood. The traditional wood was almost exclusively Boxwood (Buxus Sempervirens). The boxing wood is placed in such a way that it orients the end grain of the wood toward the sole of the plane. It is inserted on a bias to the sole that is parallel with the bed angle or the wear angle." and using John M. Whelan's book "Making traditional wooden planes": "Boxing inlays may be cut with their grain parallel to the sole, but in that case, the thin boxwood is subject to breakage along the grain. Another consideration is that better wear would be achieve if the end grain of the boxwood were used on the wear surface. For these two reasons a vertical grain orientation of the boxing would be the best. However, this would leave one one section of the boxing - the one which supports the iron - at risk of breaking off along the short grain. The optimum compromise beetwen wear resistance and resistance to breakage at the mouth is making the boxing with the grain running diagonally downward from heel to toe, at bed angle." Now i hope you understand it :) I'm preparing few pairs of sliding dovetail planes. For the body i used beech (4 pairs) and pear (1 pair), and boxwood for the boxing. I glued the boxing with hide glue. That glue choice allows easy repair/replace when the boxing would be destroyed - just heat it up or make it wet gently. It is a little bit different video than my others, i hope you will like it :) BTW. I don't take orders and usually don't sell my planes (exception - i'm gonna sell one pair of this sliding dovetail planes on my instagram profile when they will be done). The most sure way to get some of them is take a part in giveaways for my supporters. For support click here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPWTutgaoHuQcovRSjyeFOA/join or use my PayPal account: esortodox@gmail(dot)com Thank you! ANDREW DAWSON JOSHUA LUCAS ROSS TOMAZIN RENE POLAK LUBOS SULC RAMINGR SCOTT MARTIN BRIAN NEWTON ŁUKASZ JASIŃSKI WALTER GRUBE PMEWUK MIKE ETHERINGTON MELINDA JOHNSON SOTIRIS ZACHAROPOULOS ARTUR PIETREK WILLIAM C ALLEN ANDREJS STROKINS PATRYK MIKOŁAJCZAK MACIEK LASZCZ ALLEN MOCK MD ANDIEJOY .................................................................................................... For more check my instagram profile: https://www.instagram.com/stavros_gakos Remember to subscribe my buddy, Łukasz Giergasz Click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyfxV8Bgu9U Bla bla bla: (0:00) Cutting the rabbets with moving fillister plane: (0:21) Cutting the sprunged rabbets (it was side bead plane): (02:43) Cutting the grooves for the tip of the boxing: (05:18) Grooves are done: (08:44) Boxwood presentation: (09:00) Cutting quartersawn pieces of the boxwwod: (09:10) Shooting the edges before gluening: (11:16) Marking angle of the bed: (12:24) Cutting the ends to the bed angle: (12:38) Gluening with hide glue: (12:48) Another shooting the edges before gluening: (13:52) Another gluening with hide glue: (13:58) Flattening the boxwood panel with my scraper plane: (14:12) Resawing the boxwood panel: (15:01) Shooting the edge of future boxing: (15:21) Another resawing the boxwood panel: (15:36) Thicknessing the future boxing with my scraper plane: (16:05) Cutting the rebate on the boxing: (17:40) Planning side of the boxing: (18:45) Gluening the boxing into the plane stock: (19:12) Tapping for the glue squeez out: (19:38) Wrapping with the tape: (19:44) Cutting another rebate on the boxing: (20:06) Another planning side of the boxing: (20:35) Gluening another boxing: (20:49) Tapping: (21:13) Shooting the sole at 1:6 ratio angle: (21:31) Squaring one end of each blank: (24:11) Cutting all blanks to one lenght: (25:23) Smoothing the ends on the 220 grit: (26:06) Presentation of finished boxed plane blanks: (26:31) Thank you: (27:22)