Plane-ability
…subsequent planing with longer planes like Jack and Try planes. Jack planes also wore down in somewhat equal measure to the shorter smoothing plane cousins through continuous and consistent work….
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A Wonderfull Book For Your Library
…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…
BedRock or Bailey-Pattern throat openings
…the most formidable hand plane designs in the Bailey-pattern planes ever invented. The difference between the Leonard Bailey-pattern plane and the BedRock version lies only in the way the frog…
Rebate Plane No1—The #78 Filletster Plane
…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…
Rebate Plane No 2—The Bullnose Plane
…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…
Reworking new planes to act like old and well used ones
Introducing thoroughbred plane sole changes All planes work best with bevelled edges to the outside rim of the sole. It’s not commonly done and yet all planes benefit from this…
Old Men, Old Planes, Old Ways Now Gone – The Origin of Scrub Planes
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…
Questions Answered – Why Bevel-up, Bevel-down, Low-angle, High-angled Planes are Equal to Task
…These planes were mostly short-soled planes the length of a smoother but sometimes a little longer; most often in the form of shorter planes referred to as block planes. The…
Which plane–Bevel-up First or Bevel-down?
…longer and these planes are really no different. A bevel-down bench plane is infinitely more diversely useful than any and all bevel-up planes touted as the new bench plane of…
Prepping Wood VII
…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…