Matt | November 9, 2011
Lie-Nielsen’s tapered molding plane iron blanks include 9 blades specifically designed to cover all the widths necessary to create a full set of Hollows and Rounds (18 pairs), and also blanks that can be used to create an almost unlimited number of profile irons for other planes. According to Lie-Nielsen Toolworks’ website “ To accommodate a [...]
Matt | December 9, 2010
Part 2 of the construction of my Brese J-Style Small Smoother. In this episode we’ll wrap up the final assembly of this amazing little smoother plane and I’ll explain the right way to do it, while also explaining WHAT I ended up doing instead. Of course luckily in the end it all came together and [...]
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 Numbering System, [...]
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 and are [...]
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 and [...]
