-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Archives
Categories
- Articles
- books
- Boxes
- Build-Alongs
- Carving
- For Sale
- Furniture
- Gardening
- handicraft
- History
- Home Improvement
- Kids
- Kitchen
- Lumber
- Market
- Marking Gauge
- Musings
- power tools
- repair
- Reviews
- Sewing
- sharpening
- skills
- storage
- teaching
- Tobacco Pipes
- Tool Making
- Tool Repair
- Turning
- Tutorials
- Video
- Wood and Woodwork
- Woodenware
- Woodworking Literature
Meta
Tag Archives: hand plane
Loose the Weight
I used to prefer heavy tools. Now I don’t. It has taken me longer than it should to recognize that, given the choice between two tools of similar quality, I should choose the one that is lighter in weight. Let’s … Continue reading
Posted in Wood and Woodwork
Tagged hand plane, hand plane weight, handplane, handplane weight, heavy hand plane, heavy handplane, hoe
5 Comments
Selecting a Vintage Hand Plane: Deal-Breaker vs. Deal-with-It
If you went with me to a flea market or antique shop, I could pick up the hand planes one by one and tell you exactly why I would or wouldn’t buy them based on make, model, and condition. I … Continue reading
Posted in Tool Repair, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged blade, deal-breaker, hand plane, handplane, jointer plane, repair, smoothing plane, Tool Repair, tool restortion
8 Comments
Handplane Tote Repair: Replacing the Horn
The other day, a friend of mine arrived at my house (via bicycle) carrying a very nice Stanley #6 fore plane, which he gave to me. Despite being about a hundred years old, it had only light surface rust. There’s … Continue reading
Posted in Build-Alongs, Tutorials
Tagged epoxy, fore plane, hand plane, handplane, repair plane handle, repair plane tote, rosewood, shooting plane, Stanley 6
1 Comment
Retrofitted Planing Stop
When I built my bench about four years ago, I hadn’t thought much about adding a planing stop, but I do often need to plane down pieces wider than my vise. The end vise and a bench dog work okay, … Continue reading