Plane-ability
…you live in countries that used British-type bench planes that had much greater bulk than other European and Asian wooden bench planes. The smoothing plane on the left here is…
…you live in countries that used British-type bench planes that had much greater bulk than other European and Asian wooden bench planes. The smoothing plane on the left here is…
…end. Leonard Bailey’s bench plane is possibly one of the very finest plane inventions in the world of woodworking planes. In 98% of cases, modern makers simply copied this plane…
…Workbench FAQ’s Workbench Cutting List Tools and Equipment Workbench Blog Posts Workbench Gallery Making a workbench is a perfect project for any woodworker to develop and hone their skills. It…
…ever anyway. Stanley Rule & Level ended up owning and manufacturing the Leonard Bailey-pattern bench plane types and subsequent to that the Stanley BedRock-pattern bench planes, which have gained modest…
…all planes it has unique nuances everyone should learn of but let’s discuss the plane in general first. The filletster plane is simply a rebate or rabbet plane and can…
…Of wooden bullnose planes In times past wooden bullnose planes were commonly used but often not as rebate planes but more as planes for bumping up to a full-stop adjacent…
…the bench for a bevel-up bench plane to work effectively AND efficiently is the same for a bevel-down plane, but if a bevel-up plane is going to go wrong in…
…will be against the bench and the wood being planed. Your upper body will be partially over the workbench and the work that way. Placing the plane to the wood…
This Blog Post is About Scrub Planes. Had I said roughing planes, only a few would have understood. Even in the 1960s old wooden planes, the Stanley scrub plane and…
…either. My second plane is a second-level scrub plane which is a Stanley (or Record or other) #4 smoothing plane. These two plane types are my planes to tackle rough-sawn…
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