Completing the Cabinet Maker's Block Plane// Stanley No 9 Recreation! - Pt4

This is the final video about my take on the Stanley no 9 Cabinet Maker's Block Plane. Made from 01 tool steel, brass, and hempwood. It weighs in at a 6.1lbs so there is plenty of mass for shooting operations. The blade is a repurposed Veritas 01 blade. I have about 170 hours worth of work into it. Most of it was figuring out what I was doing or doing unnecessary things like making my own screws. The journey was fun, but I am glad that it is over. A playlist for all of the videos can be found here:    • Stanley No 9   --- The Stanley no 9 known as a "Cabinet Maker's Block Plane" as well as a "Piano Maker's Plane" was a plane that was developed in the 1860s. Despite its name it was not really a block plane in the way that we think of block planes today. The no 9 was Stanley's version of the infill miter planes that were coming out of New York and England. The no 9 had a 2" blade and an overall size comparable to the no 4 smoothing plane. It was much larger than a typical block plane. The purpose of the no 9 was to take fine shavings on both face and end grain. Additionally, it could be used on its side as a shooting plane. Stanley ceased production of the no 9 in the mid 1900s. Lie-Neilsen produced their own version for a time in the early 2000s, but those have ceased production as well. To get one now you have to pay collector prices. I was not interested in paying collector prices for a tool so I decided to pay an equivalent amount of money in raw materials and new tools to build one myself. I will be making some changes as I build my version. Both the Stanley and Lie-Neilsen versions were cast iron. I do not have the ability to cast metal so I will be making mine out of flat bar stock. Primarily O1 tool steel. Second, again because I do not have the ability to cast, I will be assembling mine with dovetail joinery like a traditional English mitre (miter if you are in the US) planes. The overall size has stayed the same, but I have made the side walls on mine thicker than the original. Primarily this was to add a bit of weight. The last major change I have made is that mine will include wooden infills. From the examples I have seen, so far, Stanley's version did not use wooden infills. A few from Lie-Neilsen did and I liked the way those looked so that is what I want to do on mine. There will be other deviations from the original as I solve construction problems as I go. --- Chapters 0:00 Building a Better Block Plane 0:58 Improving the Mouth Adjustment 4:29 Flattening the Sole of a Hand Plane 5:34 Fixing Mistakes 9:16 Cold Blueing Metal 9:43 Maching a Stanley Hotdog 12:01 Assembling a Hand Plane 12:27 Making Sure It Works 13:17 Beauty Shots --- Behind the Scenes: Instagram:   / eric.meyer..  . About the Builds, Gallery, and Plans: https://ericmeyermaker.wordpress.com/ --- #handtools #miterplane #tooltrain2022