Scrub Plane

  I am just wrapping up my 'get away from the winter' holiday and beginning to turn my thoughts to my workshop again.

  I have a couple of projects for grand children that await me when I get home and the first tool that I will be using is my scrub plane while I knock  a small rought pieces of wood into shape.  I have a small truck and trailer to build. I have the wood sitting on the bench, it is all too small to go near power planers or saws. I will use various planes, knives and chisels to shape those trucks.

Scrub Plane

    

Sitting on my bench is my Veritas Scrub plane. I bought this plane several 

years ago and it just occurred to me the other day how often I reach for it. 

 I suspect that real woodworkers would shriek if they saw how I use my scrub 

plane, but tough. As you can see from the photo I amabout to turn my scrubber 

lose on a glued up cutting board. It will knock down the high spotsand clear away 

that glue in the blink of an eye. I will then turn the board over to the more gentle

ministrations of various smoothing planes and scrappers. I am also a fan of my 

random orbital sander.
    The scrub plane also comes to the fore when I need to clear away lots of wood 

in a hurry. I can remove material for smaller projects faster with the scrub than 

I can get the planner out of its corner in the shop and hook it up to the dust 

collection and move other things out of the way.

It is a work horse, or if you will a bull in a china shop. I do adjust its blade for 

depth of cut but usually it is an adjustment from very deep and aggressive to

sort of deep and slightly less aggressive. Not a delicate tool but one that I am 

really glad I own and use often.

cheers ianw

On Holiday Blog.

Even when I am on holiday I am looking for wood and wood related things.

This is a table in the lobby of our hotel.  There is no amount of wood working skill that can make this table, only wind and weather.  Someone, sometime ago saw this rotted piece of tree trunk and thought, nice.

  This on the other hand is from the creative hand of man.  I have never seen a lobby ceiling up held by anything cooler than this.  

  It really appears as though it would fold together somehow???!!  My wife and I are walking about, taking photos and eating pastries.  A good holiday all around.

cheers, ianw