Thin, slick, sticks to steel...

[Silvan]

I made a jointing fence to use with hand planes today. It's a piece of angle iron pop riveted to another piece of angle iron, with a hole drilled and filed out to allow clearance for the blade, so I don't accidentally booger up the edge. It lets me plane right to the edge of a workpiece, and get the edge of a board straight to 90 (or realllly close to 90...) very quickly.

It was a pretty clever way to get this done and save some money, if I do say so myself, and I'm going to post pictures eventually.

Anyway, the only big down side so far is that the wood this fence rides along is getting burnished. I can plane it out, but I'm particularly worried about depositing iron on oak some day, and running into trouble.

I'd like to face out the fence with something thin, slick, and which would stick to steel. I'd like to increase the thickness by no more than about

1/16" if possible, and there can't be any fasteners. Double sided tape would probably be too irregular, and would add too much thickness. Maybe I could super glue something on there, but I'm not sure what. Maybe thin sheet brass, but that could go bad if I leave a sharp edge.

Ideas? Preferably something I could buy without having to resort to mail order. Something laying around the house that I haven't thought of yet. :)

[Tony]

[J.B. Bobbitt]

You can buy thin (1/32"?) sheets or rolls of UHDP (ultra-high density polyethylene) from Woodcraft, Rockler, etc. These sheets would glue on easily I'd think.

Or, maybe use aluminium instead of steel.

-JBB

[Frank Ketchum]

Interesting.. Maybe flatten and polish the face like the sole of a plane and follow with a couple good coats of wax?

Frank

[Jon]

To glue on whatever material you face it with, contact cement should stick to that (clean) angle iron. Jon

[George M. Kazaka]

Laminate a peice of High pressure Laminate with contact cement

[Dave Balderstone]

Slippery tape:

djb

[Steve Knight]

a fence is nice but you are far better off learning to eyeball 90. it does not take that long and it is a very useful skill.

[JMartin957]

That is certainly a worry. Why don't you just use on it the same stuff you use on the bottom of your plane?

John Martin

[Silvan]

Interesting. Very interesting.

[Silvan]

That's definitely something I need to add to my inventory. I can think of half a dozen uses already.

Cool!

[Silvan]

I do OK eyeballing it, but this was my very, very first piece of walnut, Steve, and I wanted to get it absolutely as close to perfect as I could manage.

I managed pretty well, even if I did cheat. :)

[Andy Dingley]

I shot my very, very first double compound mitre in walnut, and I wanted to get it perfect without fouling up. It wasn't too bad, but it ended up buried underground and out of sight for eternity anyway.

There's a dead guy in it.

-- Die Gotterspammerung - Junkmail of the Gods

[Silvan]

That's interesting.

I can't think of anything else to say. Mark your calendars. Silvan ran out of words! :)

[Andy Dingley]

I did a few cremation caskets this year.

I stopped, because every time I made one, it seemed that someone I knew died 8-(

-- Die Gotterspammerung - Junkmail of the Gods

[admin]

As long as it's not a grave conditon.

It was, however, part of a plot, to silence you.

[Silvan]

That's not cool. :(

[Silvan]

I hope not anytime in the next 100 years.

[Steve Knight]

you will get there. but walnut is cheep worry about 25.00 or 50.00 a bf wood (G)

[Silvan]

You gonna send me some to practice with? :)

Nah, nevermind. Whatever it is that costs that much, I don't even need to know about it. I have to set realistic goals. :)