travisher question

A few years ago, I wouldn't have been able to ask this question, but now there seems to be a few people making them. Any chairmakers out there that have good/bad things to say about the different manufacturers? I've seen pictures of the fred emhof travisher, and the one that highland hardware sells, but have never used them.

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I'm no expert, but I'm planning to take the Mike Dunbar windsor chair class this summer and I bought the compass plane and travisher from Crown Plane company

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- I think the highland hardware item is the same one, but they charge more for it, IIRC.

At any rate, I only received mine a few weeks ago and only have had time to play around with it a few times. The compass plane is much smaller than I realized, but it quickly became apparent that it isn't the size that counts - the plane works exceptionally fast and removes large amounts of wood quickly and easily.

The travisher was equally as good and fun to use, and behaves much like a spokeshave in my opinion. I think practice will improve the results, but in the short time I've used it I was able to get fairly good control and was able to smooth up the surface followign the compass plane quite nicely with the travisher.

Hope this helps,

Mike

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Mike in Mystic

Thanks. I just called and emailed Crown to place my order for both...no call back yet, and it's been a week or so. Are they normally slow in responding?

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On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 17:44:54 GMT, "mark" calmly ranted:

If they're that bad -before- getting the order, think how long it might take AFTER they get one. That kind of thing spooks me.

Other options:

See Steve at

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for a compass plane.

And Highland Hardware has travishers

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build your own travisher with one of these $28.25 Langsner (another chairmaster) blades:
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pick up a curved drawknife off Ebay for $10-ish.

Or Grizzly has a spoon plane for $11.99. ;)

As I said, options abound, Mark.

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Larry Jaques

The HH travisher I knew about, and it is made by crown, so the only difference there is about 15 bucks. I was just trying ot avoid shipping stuff from more than one place.

I already have a scorp -- i.e., curved drawknife...I'll check out the blade and Knight. Thanks!

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