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Permalink Reply by Mister Scott on January 11, 2011 at 4:00pm

Oh... wow. So that's what a honed plane shaves like. This is some kind of awesome...

Mungo Park said:

Well tell us how it goes.    Remember to do the back of the blade as well, this only has to really be done once in a while.        Cheers Ron.

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Permalink Reply by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars on January 12, 2011 at 2:30am

Good job, sounds like you sharpen'd your plane. Kind of neat to see the wood roll of in curls isn't it?

Scotty C. said:

Oh... wow. So that's what a honed plane shaves like. This is some kind of awesome...

Mungo Park said:

Well tell us how it goes.    Remember to do the back of the blade as well, this only has to really be done once in a while.        Cheers Ron.

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Permalink Reply by Mungo Park on January 12, 2011 at 4:37am

Glad to hear you have meet with satisfaction. Remember to take small cuts, most people set the plane to take too big a cut. With a sharp blade lots of fine cuts works best.           Cheers Ron.

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Permalink Reply by Mister Scott on January 12, 2011 at 4:50am

The two I worked on were a Stanley Block Plane, and a Harbor Freight Bench Plane; the Harbor Freight was so terrible in both blade material and general construction, I won't be buying from them again. There's no way to accurately set to a thin shaving... even on the lowest setting, the blade juts 1/8" out the plane's mouth.

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Permalink Reply by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars on January 12, 2011 at 9:44am

My block plane is also an old Stanley, simple and it works. Like Mungo said, small cuts work best.

Scotty C. said:

The two I worked on were a Stanley Block Plane, and a Harbor Freight Bench Plane; the Harbor Freight was so terrible in both blade material and general construction, I won't be buying from them again. There's no way to accurately set to a thin shaving... even on the lowest setting, the blade juts 1/8" out the plane's mouth.

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Permalink Reply by Andy Estabrooks on January 13, 2011 at 1:01pm

Here is another option for planing, if you have a drill press - the Wagner Safe-T-Plane. I'm very happy with mine. Quick and accurate with good technique. Does blow massive amounts of chips around the shop, so I'm working on a way to capture some of them with my shop vac. Bought mine at Woodcraft, also available from Stew-Mac and LMI.

Safe - T Planer - Stew Mac

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Permalink Reply by Jon Pruett on January 13, 2011 at 4:40pm

I agree with all the cautionary tales on these things. I bought a Ryobi electric hand planer to take about 1/4" off the edge of a sticking door. Ended up needing to buy a new front door. These things are really really easy to get out of alignment with the work piece, and mistakes are a nearly instant way to create firewood.

 

However if anyone does want to buy a slightly used hand planer, I can hook you up real cheap. :)

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