A new challenge

[Basvarken]

Along with the finger plane I bought this:



Flexcut Gold Polishing Compound.

[Highlander]

That looks posh... (cue more research)

[Lightyear]

Along with the finger plane I bought this:



Flexcut Gold Polishing Compound.

Ah, high tech compound!  Did you get a strop to use it on?   

[Basvarken]

No, I just use a sheet of cardboard.

[Barklessdog]

Looks kinda familiar! Me too iz movin slo...

What happened to that bass?

[shadowcastaz]

I hit a snag personally. Im comin around, I think. Thanx for askin . You were the inspiration for this & my moderne.I still think that Blues hawk is a marvelous piece of creativity. It inspired the crap out of me at a time I needed inspiration. I hope to werk on it this winter.  Is it snowin in upstate ny? Doc , is the lawn white?

[Lightyear]

No, I just use a sheet of cardboard.

Cardboard?  Is this something the manufacturer suggested?  Any piece of rough leather will work as a strop - the rough side of an old belt will work fine.

[Basvarken]

The man in the woodworkers store told me that. He showed me how to sharpen the Ibex using that FlexCut polishing crayon on a piece of cardboard.
It's cheap and it works

He also had this Slip Strop by FlexCut. Which I might buy if the cardboard doesn't turn out to be good enough

[Lightyear]

If your plane has a flat blade you won't need the supper deluxe thing - just a piece of leather glued to a board.  The deluxe thing would be cool if you had curved carving tools though - keepig those things sharp is a real bitch.

[Basvarken]

The fingerplane that I bought is not flat. It is slightly curved.

[Lightyear]

so the edge is curved but flat?  Or is the entire blade curved like a shallow U?

So how is the carving coming - any pictures?

[drbassman]

I hit a snag personally. Im comin around, I think. Thanx for askin . You were the inspiration for this & my moderne.I still think that Blues hawk is a marvelous piece of creativity. It inspired the crap out of me at a time I needed inspiration. I hope to werk on it this winter.  Is it snowin in upstate ny? Doc , is the lawn white?

Yep, the lawn is white!  Been off line a couple days!

[Basvarken]

so the edge is curved but flat?  Or is the entire blade curved like a shallow U?

So how is the carving coming - any pictures?

The blade itself is flat but the edge is curved.

Hope you can see it in this pic




haven't done any carving on the actual body yet. Still practicing on pieces of scrap 



In the meanwhile I did make some progress;
Routed a control cavity




and shaped the headstock (roughly)

[Lightyear]

Looks like you're making progress and everything looks fantastic - keep the pictures coming! 

Now I see what you are talking about on your plane.  That curved blade will take an experienced hand to sharpen and even with the compound planing all that maple will dull the blade.  Several of the woodworking shops here will sharpen your blades for a small charge.  I've just sharpened straight blades myself not having any curved blades.

[birdie]

That bass is going to be beautiful.I have always wished that my 69 LPB was lighter..
Thought about selling it many times, then I plug in it