For Yous Spiers Plane, Repair Refurbishment

Yesterday I was finishing as well as packing a batch of dovetail guides when I decided to throw inwards this niggling projection to add together some involvement to the day. It is a thirteen 1/2" panel bird yesteryear Spiers alongside a two 1/2" broad master copy Ward iron. This is a mutual size but is a rattling useful bird capable of the finest smoothing equally good equally flattening smaller boards. It is comfortable as well as heavy alongside a rattling fine mouth.

Of class the only drawback was this badly damaged spur but at £135 it was a practiced purchase (I hope!).
This brings me to the time involved in making these repairs, if y'all are doing it for fun thence induce got your fourth dimension as well as taste the process. If you're looking to brand a practiced provide on the fourth dimension spent, thence y'all require to proceed an oculus on the clock as well as larn which planes to buy and which to locomote out alone.

As the spur had quite bad harm on both sides thence I decided it would hold upward quicker as well as improve to induce got it at in 1 lawsuit off. I did this on the tabular array saw alongside base of operations running against the fence, remembering to take the blade as well as lever cap screw!
Using the tabular array saw has the payoff of speedily giving y'all a build clean apartment surface to mucilage to but also 1 which is dead parallel to the sole making clamping much easier.

Shaping the elegant spur is made a lot easier if y'all induce got some other bird to copy. The 1 inwards the background is a Spiers bird from or thence 1890-1910, whereas the 1 I'm working on is slightly afterwards or thence 1910-1920, although the profiles are remarkably similar.
The woods inwards the foreground is some former Rio (Brazilian) rosewood which should give a dainty gibe to the master copy handle.

My mucilage of pick is this resin mucilage which dries stone difficult as well as avoids the tiny creep which seems to occur over fourth dimension alongside xanthous glue. This creep tin plough a nigh invisible repair into an obvious 1 as well as spoil your difficult work. Epoxy volition also operate well.

Here is the clamp up, slowly as well as solid. I applied practiced pressure level but didn't acquire also far merely inwards representative I ended upward alongside some other repair equally well! Getting to this phase had taken merely xv minutes, all going good thence far.

Here is the glued on block after v hours left inwards a warm house (not my workshop!). I've marked out the profile of the novel spur ready for cutting on my smaller band saw.

With the locomote yesteryear as well as bottom cuts done on the band saw I marked out the profile of the rounded part. The crude oil shaping was done alongside rasps, I constitute the circular Micro Plane rasp the well-nigh useful as well as finished off alongside a fine Auriou hand stitched rasp.

H5N1 combination of motorcar sanding (I don't know what I would create without my Kirjes pneumatic drum sander) as well as manus sanding to 320 grit as well as the whole parent department was ready for finishing. The fourth dimension taken getting to this phase was 75 minutes. The gibe of the bare woods was practiced as well as at that topographic point was a barely visible mucilage employment which should disappear with the finish. The profile of the crimp was slightly flatter than the before bird but pretty close.

Another view.

I applied a showtime coat of complete (melamine lacquer) to acquire a practiced expect at the finished colour as well as all was well.
This left the front end bun to hold upward re finished so that everything matched as well as iii to a greater extent than sparse coats of Osmo Hard Wax Oil to hold upward applied. By the fourth dimension I induce got touched upward the metallic work, cleaned as well as sharpened the blade it volition induce got taken iii hours operate as well as should hold upward a reasonable investment equally good equally a  fine looking as well as rattling useful plane.

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