Matt | June 23, 2010
THE ORIGINAL VIDEO FOR THIS EPISODE WAS BAD, SO IT’S BEEN REPLACED. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE!
We wrap up our discussion of the bench planes today with a discussion about Smoothing Planes. Next to the Jack Planes, the smoothers are probably one of the more common planes in the shop. In the Stanley [...]
Matt | June 16, 2010
Moving along with our discussion of bench planes it’s time to take a look at the jointer planes. The jointers are our middle of the road tools. These are the tools we reach for once we’ve taken our stock from it’s rough cut faces and edges, leveled out the big hills and valleys [...]
Matt | June 14, 2010
The quickest and easiest way to improve an old hand plane is to swap out the original blade and maybe even the chipbreaker. Not that there’s anything truly wrong with the original pieces, other than a little surface rust and maybe a nick or two, but if you were to hold the new old [...]
Matt | June 9, 2010
Finally returning to our discussion on hand planes we pick back up by talking about the roughest planes on the bench. The Jack Planes! This class of bench plane falls between the large jointers and the smaller smoothers, but they’re the perfect size for doing rough work without wearing out the user.
In the [...]
Matt | June 7, 2010
Today’s Try it Tuesday is the Lee Valley Handplane Screwdriver. Since the next few episodes will be continuing our discussion of hand planes, it only makes sense we need to cover some tools or accessories that go along with them.
The Handplane Screwdriver is one such accessory. Unlike an ordinary screwdriver, the full length [...]
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