It's like Deja Vu All Over Again

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A few months ago when I was at my winter place in Az. I discovered Hock plane blades and made myself a set of three from the native woods of the desert, Mesquite and Osage Orange.

I loved the blades and the planes felt so good in my hands that I wanted to bring them home to Canada but decided instead to just bring home some blades and make a new set here out of native Vancouver Island hardwoods. These are made from Arbutus and Garry Oak.

Of course , I can’t let an opportunity to add marquetry to get by me so I added my cypher, a combination of my initials that I have used since I was a little kid.

Thanks for looking

Paul

The early bird gets the worm but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Love those planes Paul.

The logo, cypher I should say, was the first thing that attracted my attention. My thought was “that is a nice logo”.

Abbas, Castro Valley, CA

and doesn’t the logo take the build to a whole new level — from fantastic to extraordinary or some other magnificent word!

Toxins Out, Nature In - body/mind/spirit

They’re too nice to work with!

Losing fingers since 1969

I bet they feel so good to touch that I’d be afraid to use them. Very inspiring!

Thanks for the comments.
Since posting these I have been approached to make a set for another forum member. I agreed and will be making a limited number of sets for sale. I. Don’t want to get commercial here but if anyone is interested please PM me.

Thanks again.

The early bird gets the worm but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Very impressive work as always Paul. A hundred years from now those will be some of the much coveted and sought after “Shipwright” planes.

Where are the band-aids?---Pro Libertate!

Like all of your work beautiful and so very well done Paul.

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