Admittedly, we aren’t really in a position to confirm whether or not the miniature wood plane put together by [Daniel d’Entremont] is actually the smallest in the world, but we’re willing to take his word for it. At the very least, we certainly haven’t seen a smaller one.
In the video below, [Daniel] crafts the diminutive tool from a small block of wood by first slicing off a square using a band saw and then switching over to a small hand saw to cut out the individual pieces. These are glued together to make the body of the plane, and the shank of a small drill bit is used to hold down the wedge and blade. All told it’s about 1/2 of an inch long, and is fully functional…or at least, as functional as a 1/2 inch wood plane can be.
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My first thought was… how does that thing fly?
Mine as well. In my native language the plane that flies and the plane that makes wood planar are two completely different words and none of them starts with P.
English can be weird. A fly wanted to fly with his fly open. Even Google translate can’t figure this one out. (fly: 1 an annoying insect, 2 a method of transportation, and 3 part of the pants)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
Finally, a way to shave my tiny wood!
ROTFLMAOL
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Jesus Christ man, you can’t just teleport me back to 2009 like that.
Search for ‘violin plane’.
I was thinking the same thing, the specialist musicial instrument planes can be much smaller in at least one and sometimes every dimension it seems to me – though perhaps they will always actually have a higher total volume as a tool you can’t actually hold to operate isn’t much good…
Still cool to have a baby sized plane though – one you can actually hope to sharpen and hone almost effortlessly after you find a bloody nail/pin in the wood…
When one wishes to play a sad song on the worlds smallest violin, a prerequisite is that there exists the world smallest violin plane.
This plane doesn’t fly high!
oh, rainBOW. not a plane but a plane. I’m still looking for the world’s smallest wooden plane, I guess…. :(
Yep, there goes my Spruce Sliver pun!
It would be cool if you made like a small plane with a blade set at an angle in a conical recess, then you could mount graphite sticks in a wooden handle and pare it away to expose more graphite when it got blunt.
But in other news… I made a plane with a narrower blade some few decades back, when I wanted a 1/16th slot down the middle of a 1/4 square spruce dowel. It was a bit larger in external format though, because I had the silly idea that a tool ought to have enough surface to hold onto securely. I think the blade actually came from a jewellers screwdriver, and the body was maybe parallel aluminum plates that were part of an old camera shutter mechanism (Something like a 126 cartridge cam or instamatic probably) barely remember it, think it was used for that one thing I was messing with and never touched again.
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Why not have a tiny table saw to go with it.
https://hackaday.com/2013/03/25/a-tiny-custom-table-saw/
Why halfass commit, make a whole dollhouse woodshop and use it to make dollhouse furniture :-D
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