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…
…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…
…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…
…edge to engage in the wood. Take any plane type, the router plane, the side rebate plane, bevel-up planes of every type and even spokeshaves, there will always be a…
…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…
…workbench now looks different but as I reach for a router plane I feel very satisfied that everyone anywhere will be able to afford a good quality router plane at…
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…
…design was fine. The size of the router plane was very nice and it was indeed nicely made too. So now let’s take the plane apart and say what would…
…they are equal to more elaborate routers. The router referred to disparagingly as the ‘old woman’s tooth’ or ‘hag’s tooth’ is a router that houses a plough plane iron instead…