The Taming of the Skew
…an automatic reset with their bevel-up planes. This company has a plane that has grub screws in the side upstands of the plane that aligns the blade in the plane…
…an automatic reset with their bevel-up planes. This company has a plane that has grub screws in the side upstands of the plane that aligns the blade in the plane…
…a waste of time. Spokeshaves are really another version of plane so I put them in the category of planes albeit more tentatively. Plough planes and rebate planes, also called…
…this right but it is the best strategy I know of when an opposite plane is not available. What is an opposite plane? Some planes were made and sold in…
…planes for his day and time and really, nothing changed for over a century because no one really developed a mass-manufacturable plane offering the functionality his plane offered. Hundreds of…
…combined with the weightiness of the plane steadies the plane with each thrusting stroke. Once registered, quick successive strokes without removing the plane from its ever-forming platform are practical and…
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…
…a #4 jack plane and a #4 smoothing plane all the day long. Imagine all those planes lounging around on their sides on my benchtop as I plane up my…
…plane (left) shows amazing regularity to an image on the inside cover of Bill Goodman’s book on British Planemakers from the 1700s Within the main working of the plane lies…
…new plane. Wooden Jack plane in good working condition with no throat closure repairs Followed then by a non bench plane plane: Veritas Bevel-up Jack plane Bevel-up planes are nice…
…his personal plane and asked me to look at it. It was a Stanley #4 plane he had decided to make an upgrade to by retrofitting it with a Clifton…