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22/11/2006 6:08 PM

Electric spokeshave or finger planer

Hello,
I there such a device as an electric spokeshave?? or
(as someone suggested) a "Finger Planer".

I wish to remove wood in confined spaces.
There is no room to operate a manual spokeshave.
A sander is also too big.

I have visions of a device construced of a cutting rotor (as
in a conventional electric planer) inside a pipe which
has a slit on it to allow the blades to get at the wood.

I have tralled the internet to no avail.

Any suggestions.

TIA.

P.K.


This topic has 7 replies

b

in reply to [email protected] on 22/11/2006 6:08 PM

22/11/2006 8:42 PM


[email protected] wrote:
> Hello,
> I there such a device as an electric spokeshave?? or
> (as someone suggested) a "Finger Planer".
>
> I wish to remove wood in confined spaces.
> There is no room to operate a manual spokeshave.
> A sander is also too big.
>
> I have visions of a device construced of a cutting rotor (as
> in a conventional electric planer) inside a pipe which
> has a slit on it to allow the blades to get at the wood.
>
> I have tralled the internet to no avail.
>
> Any suggestions.


likely what you want to do will be achieved easily with a rasp. if that
isn't electrical enough for you, or if there isn't room for the stroke,
you might be able to use a die grinder with a rotary file or a sanding
drum on it.

the tool you describe doesn't to my knowledge exist. you may have a
valuable idea on your hands.

Gg

"George"

in reply to [email protected] on 22/11/2006 6:08 PM

23/11/2006 11:47 AM


<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello,
> I there such a device as an electric spokeshave?? or
> (as someone suggested) a "Finger Planer".
>
> I wish to remove wood in confined spaces.
> There is no room to operate a manual spokeshave.
> A sander is also too big.
>
> I have visions of a device construced of a cutting rotor (as
> in a conventional electric planer) inside a pipe which
> has a slit on it to allow the blades to get at the wood.
>
> I have tralled the internet to no avail.
>
> Any suggestions.

There are finger planes and shaves built for carvers and Luthiers which even
have long handles. Perhaps what you're looking for would be served by a
scorp?

s

in reply to [email protected] on 22/11/2006 6:08 PM

22/11/2006 9:47 PM

If you have a Dremel, have you looked at this?

http://www.dremel.com/en-us/attachments-and-accessories/attachment-accessory-detail.htm?H=188575&G=69679&I=69725


On 22 Nov 2006 18:08:05 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

>Hello,
> I there such a device as an electric spokeshave?? or
> (as someone suggested) a "Finger Planer".
>
> I wish to remove wood in confined spaces.
>There is no room to operate a manual spokeshave.
>A sander is also too big.
>
> I have visions of a device construced of a cutting rotor (as
> in a conventional electric planer) inside a pipe which
> has a slit on it to allow the blades to get at the wood.
>
>I have tralled the internet to no avail.
>
>Any suggestions.
>
>TIA.
>
>P.K.

Lc

Langley

in reply to [email protected] on 22/11/2006 6:08 PM

18/07/2018 1:14 PM

replying to posker1, Langley wrote:
Yes - very close too it..... It was compressed air driven, and It appears to
be a spoke shave like tool, but it has a cutting drum inside it, perhaps a
scrolling milling cutter, reprofiled.... Especially developed by Langley
Research for the purposes of shaving down wind tunnel fans...

You see them being used from at the 15 minute mark... onwards. BUT being a
special tool - OK I have never found one like it anywhere... . BUT something
similar could be made, some how, some way, with the right bits.....

I would like to get my hands on one myself......


Construction of Wooden Propellers for Wind Tunnels 1941 NACA Langley Research
Center

https://youtu.be/v1DCjR5mjnA

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WB

"Wood Butcher"

in reply to [email protected] on 22/11/2006 6:08 PM

22/11/2006 7:32 PM

Dremel with a carving burr?

Art

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello,
> I there such a device as an electric spokeshave?? or
> (as someone suggested) a "Finger Planer".
>
> I wish to remove wood in confined spaces.
> There is no room to operate a manual spokeshave.
> A sander is also too big.
>
> I have visions of a device construced of a cutting rotor (as
> in a conventional electric planer) inside a pipe which
> has a slit on it to allow the blades to get at the wood.
>
> I have tralled the internet to no avail.
>
> Any suggestions.
>
> TIA.
>
> P.K.
>

BB

Bruce Barnett

in reply to [email protected] on 22/11/2006 6:08 PM

23/11/2006 1:02 PM

[email protected] writes:

> Hello,
> I there such a device as an electric spokeshave?? or
> (as someone suggested) a "Finger Planer".

I haven't used them, but there are

Skinny Belt sanders (3/8" by 13")

http://www.amazon.com/Belt-Sander/dp/B000I208OS/sr=1-1/qid=1164286507/ref=sr_na_1/102-5981388-9703329

Power Carver (movement is back and forth)
http://www.amazon.com/PROXXON-CARVER/dp/B0002IXZNE/sr=8-5/qid=1164286811/ref=sr_1_5/102-5981388-9703329?ie=UTF8&s=hi

Dremel (Rotary)

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Lew Hodgett

in reply to [email protected] on 22/11/2006 6:08 PM

23/11/2006 2:15 AM

[email protected] wrote:
> Hello,
> I there such a device as an electric spokeshave?? or
> (as someone suggested) a "Finger Planer".
>
> I wish to remove wood in confined spaces.
> There is no room to operate a manual spokeshave.
> A sander is also too big.

<snip>

Take a look at the Fein multimaster.

Lew


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