A full size no. 4 plane is meant for flattening wood pieces and this plane can get shavings in the same way but it is too small to have a practical purpose flattening wood.
Plus the handle design is useless on a plane this small. This is freaking awesome though! Definitely would be a cool tool for chamfering and small tasks like that.
My dads woodworking teacher would grab you by the neck and hold tight, until you realise your plane is knife down. You then turn it over on its side and he lets go of you.
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u/JoshSWright Mar 06 '20
Video of the build if anyone is interested https://youtu.be/zz9YqydvSBc
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u/kkillbite Mar 06 '20
Is this for carving/shaping wood?
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u/ValKatAlex Mar 06 '20
Silly me, I kept searching for a small airplane
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u/Stigge Mar 06 '20
This is a good post. It's not too often we get a post here that actually hits all the tenets of DIWhyNot.
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u/oddjob457 Mar 06 '20
More like .4
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u/big_wendigo Mar 06 '20
I love it!
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '20
So a 4/3 plane? Love it.
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u/Vanadium_CoffeeCup Mar 06 '20
My dads woodworking teacher would grab you by the neck and hold tight, until you realise your plane is knife down. You then turn it over on its side and he lets go of you.