Bingo!

-John

Just noticed that the blade has an oval slot in it, Im guessing that’s how the blade slides over by moving the wedge up or down; does the clamp pad hold the blade and the wedge tight?

It’s all starting to make sense to me now.

-Rutager

On the subject of the HP6v2, you and I talked about an auxiliary handle for it awhile back – idea being that I could have a larger handle at the back to attach to the top of the plane. Are you still considering some type of optional handle? This is the kind of application where I think it might be useful particularly with the new skids on the sides of the plane or the fences as you have shown.

Good stuff!

neil

The dado set only fits the HP-6v2; same with the dovetail sole, or will it fit on the brass HP-6?

-Rutager

I will do a complete step through this weekend. We will make a video but not with prototype parts.

Gone fishin’ today.

–John

I did some more thinking! What if the Taper Guide squeezed on to your stock from both sides, so you wouldn’t have to cut one side and then move the guide to the other, and what if instead of using the depth gauge to set the postion of the taper guide, the taper guide had flip up fingers, and wait, there’s more, the taper guide had the dado depth seting groove built into it, so you would have one less part to keep track of? The other benefit of fingers versus the depth gauge is that with fingers, you wouldn’t be fighting gravity and it would be easier to get it clamped on perfectly without 3 hands.

Thanks for entertaining my crazy ideas,
Rutager

Playing along at home here, trying to keep track of tool counts. Let me see if I have this right. In a couple months, a delivery person will drop off a sweet package including: the AF-26; dovetail sole kit; taper guide; dovetail gauge; depth gauge and a set of depth skids and you and Michael will have posted a briilant video on using all of it, right?

-Rutager

It’s late, and I’m brain dead after a very long day, but I’m having trouble seeing how to set the AF-26 to be 1″ from the centerline and keep it perfectly aligned: once you’ve cut the dado, the centerline no longer exists. Do you cut the dado with the fence? Do the depth fences rub against the AF-26? At what point do you use the dovetail guide to get the taper? Presumably after the dado is cut. But (again, sorry for being slow) how do you ensure that the AF-26 is in the right place?

Say your male stock is 5/8″ thick. Would you mind running through the steps again (I feel like a stupid kid in class asking the professor to explain everything again…). I’m guessing you’d start with a 1/2″ dado. How do you get it exactly on the centerline?

(I know there’s going to be a big mental head slap once you explain this…)

– Peter

John,

You very well may have DSN proofed this tool, my vision is already getting blurry from all the previous thinking. I’ll keep trying until the headache get too painful or I come up with something useful.

-Rutager

There is a method to our madness…in just a few short days our new AS-24 will ship and it will set this fence dead square…or at an angle. How handy is that?

Keep thinking!

–John