I've been doing some Fall cleaning in preparation for my upcoming classes and have decided to thin out a few tools. I have a Morgan Hand Mill I had made around a hundred rods with. It's ready for the next hundred - $1700. I also have an over abundance of NEW Lie-Nielsen bronze bodied scrapers with the "rodmaker's groove" (sells for $170 - my price $140). Of course I have other tools for sale but these are the "specials" of the season. e-mail me oystersb@mindspring.com if you would like more details.

Bill O.

The MHM is SOLD.

Thanks,
Bill

Hi,
I'm new to rod building and if you don't mind would like to ask what is meant by "the rod maskers grove" in the Lie-Nielsen scraper?
Thanks
E.

Lie-Nielsen got a fair amount of attention from the rod makers when Wayne Cattanach's book came out. At that time maybe a handful of people had experimented milling a shallow groove, ie: .003 through the middle of the planing path on the sole of the plane to prevent damage to the planing form. At some point I am sure someone asked Tom Lie-Nielsen to do this as an extra service to the rod makers. Actually the groove does two things, it prevents your forms from getting chewed up and it prevents you from having to reshapren your blade every time you do strike the forms.

This is especially true if you use the super hard A2 cryo blades which will cut into the cold rolled steel planing form.

You can accomplish this on any of your planes yourself by a number of different methods. Some people use a couple layers of tape on each shoulder of the plane. Others have glued on feeler guages, and yet others have sanded in it themselves, similar to how you would true the sole of the plane.

Lie-Nielsen offers this as a choice for an extra $25, and I am sure if you didn't want to do it yourself you could find a machine shop with a mill that will do it for you.

Scott