http://www.amazon.com/Makita-1902-4-Inch-Handheld-Planer/dp/B00074EJOC/
Has anyone had any experience with them? I'm having mucho trouble getting the faces of my pegheads completely flat...
http://www.amazon.com/Makita-1902-4-Inch-Handheld-Planer/dp/B00074EJOC/
Has anyone had any experience with them? I'm having mucho trouble getting the faces of my pegheads completely flat...
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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. :)
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
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.
Scotty C. said:
Mungo Park said:
Scotty C. said:
Update: the Robert Larson Honing Guide arrived. @ home, I have 400, 600, 800, and 1500 grit sand paper. So tonight, I'll be testing it out with a low-end spokeshave blade.
Also, I found this at one of the web sites I frequent: http://www.widgetsupply.com/page/WS/PROD/sculpting-tools/SHB3-SS1000 ... Seems like a decent stand-in/practice stone so that I can acclimate myself before I spend decent money on a real whet stone.
Mungo Park said: