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Wood Planing Competition

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    #2
    slpower01
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭slpower01


    Its a toilet paper making planner! :-O


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    deandean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,234 ✭✭✭deandean


    Wow! must be very soft wood too.

    A few years back I was getting F&C magazine, they had a series of articles about tuning your planes.

    I followed the articles and had my three planes absolutely spot-on: I got the bases surface-ground to almost a mirror finish. And the blades were just incredible, you would grind a degree or two of reverse angle on the normally flat back that both reduced the cutting angle and allowed for a true 'honed' edge.

    The test was that the shavings should be translucent, bit like the video, and for sure mine were that thin.

    Funny thing is, my three planes date back to the 50s and it cost me very small money (but lots of time) to properly tune the planes, but they are always a pleasure to use and always will be.

    I bought one expensive (and small) plane from the guy in Canada, Lesley Nielson as I call him, it was just perfect out of the box, no tuning needed.

    [edit] Plane Porn.
    http://www.lie-nielsen.com/


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    slpower01
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭slpower01


    deandean wrote: »
    Wow! must be very soft wood too.

    A few years back I was getting F&C magazine, they had a series of articles about tuning your planes.

    I followed the articles and had my three planes absolutely spot-on: I got the bases surface-ground to almost a mirror finish. And the blades were just incredible, you would grind a degree or two of reverse angle on the normally flat back that both reduced the cutting angle and allowed for a true 'honed' edge.

    The test was that the shavings should be translucent, bit like the video, and for sure mine were that thin.

    Funny thing is, my three planes date back to the 50s and it cost me very small money (but lots of time) to properly tune the planes, but they are always a pleasure to use and always will be.

    I bought one expensive (and small) plane from the guy in Canada, Lesley Nielson as I call him, it was just perfect out of the box, no tuning needed.

    [edit] Plane Porn.
    http://www.lie-nielsen.com/

    I have heard of putting a slight angle on the back of a blade before but never actually thought of doing it, I've found lately I use my jack plane a lot more then my electric plane... No setup time, much nicer finish, bit of exercise and marginal time difference. Plus you always feel a lot more involved when using hand tools.


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