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Lie-Nielsen 6OV2R Rabbet Block Plane Hand plane collectors have known for years about the merits of the Sargent 507 rabbeting block plane. This excellent little tool is great for cleaning up rabbets, trimming tenons and general edge smoothing. Too bad it's discontinued, hard to find and expensive ($200 to $600 on eBay). Lie-Nielsen Toolworks has revived this useful tool with the 601/2R rabbet block plane. There are some changes from the original Sargent, but they are all for the better. Lie-Nielsen lowered the angle of the blade to 12° from 20°, making this a low-angle plane. The plane is a little nar- Contact Lie-Nielsen at 800-327- rower, which makes it fit nicely in your hand. The bronze cap holds the blade in place with a screw instead of a lever. And the Lie-Nielsen body is cast from ductile iron, which is considerably stronger than the original gray iron body. As with all Lie-Nielsen tools, the fit and finish are excellent, and the plane is ready to go to work after flattening the face of the blade and honing the cutting edge. This $150 plane excels at the workaday trimming jobs that block planes are used for, and it does double-duty as a shoulder or rabbet plane, too. 2520 or www.lie-nielsen.com. Shop Fox W1671 Mortiser This mortiser stands apart from the crowd, and heavy, which adds stability, plus the but it didn't start out that way. We tested a pre-production model in July and liked the machine, except it would stall in tough cuts (like all the other slow-speed machines on the market). The Shop Fox 1671 now offers a bigger 3/4 hp, high-speed (3,450 rpm) motor — the biggest motor in a bench-top machine. We prefer the high-speed motors because they are less likely to stall, and with the extra power of a 3/4hp motor, it's fair to say this thing sails through wood. In addition, the base of the mortiser is large table and fence are longer than in other machines. And unlike any other mortis-er, the Shop Fox comes with three different hold-down posts you can swap out when dealing with really thick stock. You can easily reconfigure this machine to mortise a board as thick as 73/4" . Shop Fox also changed the handle to a horizontal bar design (not shown in the photo at right), which greatly improves the comfort during use. Still priced at $235, this is a great benchtop mortiser. Contact Shop Fox at 800- 840-8420 or www.woodstockint.com. Triton Multi-Stand When someone pulls us aside at a tool show and says, "Hey, take a look at this really cool stand!" we're a little skeptical. But from the land down under (that's Australia) comes a stand that had us thinking of more and more applications as we got acquainted with the thing. The Multi-Stand from Triton starts out folded into a compact 6" x 36" cylinder and unfolds into an outboard support, tool support, clamp and has many other uses. It opens into a height-adjustable (25" to 37") wide tripod stand (for better stability on uneven floors) and sports a swiv-Contact Triton at 888-874- elling, tilting, clamping head that has low-friction, rounded pads on the top for smooth sliding. This is better than a single roller (which can be tricky to align) or transfer balls (which can miss narrow stock). The versatility offers lots of potential uses, and the stand is rated to handle more than 220 lbs. Pretty cool. And even better, it's priced under $60. Triton is working on gaining a foothold in the U.S. market, and if they keep coming up with ideas like this we think that's bloody easy. Available at all Sears Hardware stores. PW 8661 or www.multi-stand.com. 48 Popular Woodworking December 2001 |
