Convex Sole Planes

[Ken Bennett]

Ready to start carving the inside of the top of our new archtop. The larger Lie-Nielsen Palm Plane came in today. Here it is next to little Ibex Finger Plane that I bought for the violin.

We'll see how the somewhat less expensive yet fully stress-relieved Ductile Iron bodied Lie-Nielsen compares with the all brass Ibex.

[verhoevenc]

Both are great planes. That said, for larger hogging work I prefer the ibex cello maker's 90mm convex soled plane.

Chris

[Woodenspoke]

Thats kind of big the Lie-Nielsen. But you didnt say what size the Ibex was so its hard to reference the two together?

[Ken Bennett]

Thats kind of big the Lie-Nielsen. But you didnt say what size the Ibex was so its hard to reference the two together?

The sole of the Lie-Nielsen is about 3 1/2", the Ibex about 1 3/8". One more in between those two would be nice.

Have any of you tried making wood bodied planes?

[Ken Bennett]

Both are great planes. That said, for larger hogging work I prefer the ibex cello maker's 90mm convex soled plane.

Chris

I was thinking that this Lie-Nielsen is about the same size as the Ibex 90mm.

90mm = 3.54"

My Ibex must be a 36mm.

36mm = 1.4"