I think this book will appeal to all sorts of woodworkers. Hand Planes in the Modern Shop has six chapters on different types of planes: bench, joinery, molding, block, routers, and scrapers. There is also information on how to make your own plane, restore an antique plane and troubleshoot your planes. And the book is full of colored photos – including an illustrated glossary with lots of nice looking planes. This book will be helpful to someone getting started in woodworking, helpful to an experienced plane user, and helpful to a plane collector.
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I am a blended/hybrid woodworker who uses power tools for roughing and hand tools for finish work. The book looks very interesting. Always looking to learn more.
I recent spent $300 purchasing four wonderful Record planes, to add to my collection going back 40 years or so. I'd love this book to put alongside Planecraft (pub. 1959) and Country Furniture.
This looks like a very interesting book. I have finally transitioned completely from power tools to hand tools. My collection is small right now and this looks like a good reference to increase it.
I recently purchased "The Handplane Book" by Garrett Hack. I think "Hand Planes in the Modern Shop" would be a great companion to it. Great book, by the way.
"Even when you're thinking outside of the box,
There's always a larger box that you have to think inside of." - me
For years my shop has been heavily skewed toward power tools. Recently though, with the addition of a newborn, my hand tool proficiency has had to increase for the sake of a better sleep environment for him. With this new found love of hand planes, I could not agree more that there is a place for them in a modern shop.
I have several hand planes, primarily inherited from my father. Now that I've retired and am completing a new house with a heated wood working shop, it is time to get serious about using them. I'm gathering good information about reconditioning and using them - most of it from Fine Woodworking and finewoodworking.com
I love using hand planes. I love the way you can take the thinnest shaving and the way the blades can create such a silky smooth surface. I have a full complement of Veritas Bench planes and am now moving into specialty planes and would like this book to get an appreciation for which ones to go after first.
I consider myself a novice with finer woodworking-and are always interested in supplementing my bookcase with worthwhile reading material.
Thanks,
André
I would like to be included in the drawing. It very likely understand planes a lot better. How that I am trying to be a hand tool woodworker It would be a big help.
Thanks
your articles and projects have inspired me to work more with hand tools. I have recently acquired several planes and now am in the process of learning to tune and use them.
Thanks for reducing all the noise in the shop (garage)
I have several older cheap planes left to me by my father. I am slowly updating to newer, high quality planes, but with so many to chose from, a book like this should offer some guidance into which ones to buy first.
This book would fit well in my shelves - one of the things I love is introducing students to the joys of handplaning with a well-fettled and sharp handplane - it is always a revelation
An interesting thing I have discovered. I use to be strictly power tools in my shop and really did not have room for anything except maybe some chisels. But As I am getting older I found that the quite of hand working is more enjoyable and I am doing more and more with hand tools. Just finished a cabinet that was done almost all by hand. Yes I thickness the wood with a planer. But that was all. Hand tools may not be as quick as power tools but there is more control in them.
Looks like a fun book, a well sharpened hand plane is a joy to use, they are also like potato chips, hard to have just one. I would love to win the book
I am really enjoying the router book that I recently won and am looking forward to writing about it when I'm done. Wouldn't it be great if I won this book too!
It looks like a beautiful and useful book. As I've gotten into using hand tools it's been fun to learn more about them. Plus I have the added benefit of keeping the noise down when I work a little late in my garage shop.
Theres only one thing greater than a great plane a great plane book to teach you how to use it properly. I'm all about finesse and proper use of tools and who could ask for more than a book to teach me the fine inpliments of the trade.
I've recently revisited the use of hand tools over power tools. Where I've always looked towards using power tools by choice, hand tools have begun to draw me in. The more I can learn about their use, they greater my interest.
Having just gotten finished tuning up my latest acquisition (a modestly priced Footprint smoother), I am very much in the hand plane mind space. I am always looking for additions to my library. If I win the book - wonderful. If not, I will probably buy it. It sounds like a good one.
Having just tuned up my latest acquisition (a Footprint smoother), I am very much in the hand plane mind space. I am always looking for good additions to my library. This looks like a good one. If I win it - wonderful. If not I will more than likely buy it.
Would love to read this book--I am experiencing a personal revelation/revival in my understanding and use of handplanes as more effective for many woodworking operations--and they are so quiet! Count me in.
I've just started using hand planes more in my shop. Still a lot to learn, however. Using planes and scrapers has given my projects a finished look that sandpaper never did!
I look forwarded to reading this book...when I win it!
I've been designing my new shop specifically around the idea of combining traditional hand tools with modern power tools. This book looks like it would be a great guide to helping me accomplish this task. And, it'll probably be fun to read too.
I purchased a beautiful smoothing plane four years ago and was reluctant to use it due to lack of knowledge and experience. After reading articles and watching videos I elevated my comfort level so this tool is a true joy to use. I admit to becoming another hand tool addict and would gladly welcome this book into my home if my name is drawn.
Like a lot of woodworkers I started out thinking that power tools were the way to go. That you could do everything with them. Then by chance I found an old wood body plane at a flee market, studied it, figured out how to adjust it, and then stared collecting old wood working tools. Now I find,as a lot of other wood workers do, that you can't replace all jobs in the shop with a power tool and that some times it's even faster and better to get a hand tool. Plus the sound and feel of an old plane is nice and there sure is a lot less fine dust to clog up you nose. Rick
Sounds like Mr. Pierce has been in my shop. Seems like no matter how many machines I use in the building of a project, some type of plane gets pulled out to complete the job. Mostly a hand plane, but sometimes a smoother to get 2 adjacent surfaces level. Love to get my hands on this book.
To a woodworking newbie like myself, trying to understand (let alone choose from) the hundreds of hand plane options can be a confusing and intimidating process. This book sounds like an excellent resource.
Having a background of 35 years working with steel, and only immersing myself in woodworking about 6 years ago, I have a lifetime of learning to accomplish without a lifetime left in which to do so. I have found that woodworking should have been my first love, as nothing fascinates me as much as all things wood, therefore, every bit of information and knowledge is a huge help in my learning curve. I've accumulated a small collection of hand tools so far and need all the help I can to learn how to use them to their fullest potential.
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Comments
Looks like winner! As a hybrid woodworker who supplements power tools with hand tools, the subject matter looks relevant to me.
Tim
I am a blended/hybrid woodworker who uses power tools for roughing and hand tools for finish work. The book looks very interesting. Always looking to learn more.
Throw my hat in..:>)
Sounds interesting. I'm a little curious why FW is promotoing a book that isn't published by Taunton.
Im having problem with my veritas #4 smoothing plane.
Getting alot of tearout. Hopefully the book can help!
Larry
Hand planes will never be obsolete.
I like hand plane books.
Looks like an interesting book.
A nice addition to my library
I'm just getting into hand planing and I'm sure this wouldn't hurt. Count me in.
Looks like a great book. I just bought 6 old wooden planes at a garage sale. I can certainly use it.K
"...and troubleshoot your planes."
I need this book.
I recent spent $300 purchasing four wonderful Record planes, to add to my collection going back 40 years or so. I'd love this book to put alongside Planecraft (pub. 1959) and Country Furniture.
Thanks; I'd love this book!
Intriguing, thanks for the chance to win.
I would read that book.
fuzzy
I would like to be able to refer to my power tools as "fork tailed apprentices". Not there yet, but this looks I a step in the right direction.
This looks like a very interesting book. I have finally transitioned completely from power tools to hand tools. My collection is small right now and this looks like a good reference to increase it.
I have always been interested in how to effectively use hand planes in my shop.
I am fascinated by planes and their use. My skills are improving and any information is helpful.
Will this book help me make them fly further?
I recently purchased "The Handplane Book" by Garrett Hack. I think "Hand Planes in the Modern Shop" would be a great companion to it. Great book, by the way.
"Even when you're thinking outside of the box,
There's always a larger box that you have to think inside of." - me
For years my shop has been heavily skewed toward power tools. Recently though, with the addition of a newborn, my hand tool proficiency has had to increase for the sake of a better sleep environment for him. With this new found love of hand planes, I could not agree more that there is a place for them in a modern shop.
I have several hand planes, primarily inherited from my father. Now that I've retired and am completing a new house with a heated wood working shop, it is time to get serious about using them. I'm gathering good information about reconditioning and using them - most of it from Fine Woodworking and finewoodworking.com
This book would be very useful to me. I have a mainly power tool shop so I could really use an edication in planes.
Just graduated from a Stanley to a Lie Nielsen & Veritas.
Would like to know the minimum kind of planes needed to get any job done.
I love using hand planes. I love the way you can take the thinnest shaving and the way the blades can create such a silky smooth surface. I have a full complement of Veritas Bench planes and am now moving into specialty planes and would like this book to get an appreciation for which ones to go after first.
The book would be a nice addition to my young but growing library, thanks!
Erich
If I can't win a copy, I'll have to buy one.
I consider myself a novice with finer woodworking-and are always interested in supplementing my bookcase with worthwhile reading material.
Thanks,
André
Looks like a good one! Send my way and I'll do a review.
I just purchased my first four hand planes...all Veritas and I need all the help I can get!
Looks like a winner. Always looking to learn more.
I would like to read this book. I have been recently collecting old hand planes and am starting to the clean them up.
You keep coming up with good books that I would love to add to my woodworking library.
Count me in please.
I would love this book. I want to learn more about the planes I have and be able to use them more effectively.
Looks like a good book. Thanks for the opportunity to win it.
Looks good. Would like to win one.
Please include my name in the drawing. Love handplane books.
Please include my name in the drawing. Love handplane books.
I would like to be included in the drawing. It very likely understand planes a lot better. How that I am trying to be a hand tool woodworker It would be a big help.
Thanks
books R gud
The world of hand planes is certainly addictive.
I would like to be in the running
Please include my name as well --- hand plane proficiency is on my skills-to-acquire list!
I love new hand plane books
I love hand planes. Liked to have the book.
make me a winner :-)
This would make a fine addition to my library.
I love Taunton books!
My shop isn't all that modern, but I do like hand planes!
I love to use hand planes in my shop. Everyone thinks I am crazy but I love 'em. This looks like a good book to add to my collection.
your articles and projects have inspired me to work more with hand tools. I have recently acquired several planes and now am in the process of learning to tune and use them.
Thanks for reducing all the noise in the shop (garage)
I have several older cheap planes left to me by my father. I am slowly updating to newer, high quality planes, but with so many to chose from, a book like this should offer some guidance into which ones to buy first.
This book would fit well in my shelves - one of the things I love is introducing students to the joys of handplaning with a well-fettled and sharp handplane - it is always a revelation
An interesting thing I have discovered. I use to be strictly power tools in my shop and really did not have room for anything except maybe some chisels. But As I am getting older I found that the quite of hand working is more enjoyable and I am doing more and more with hand tools. Just finished a cabinet that was done almost all by hand. Yes I thickness the wood with a planer. But that was all. Hand tools may not be as quick as power tools but there is more control in them.
A book to get me motivated to use hand tools.
Looks like a good bood to add to the collection.
A very relevant book for me. Would love to win it.
I need a few more planes. This book would maybe help me to decide which ones. Thanks Gary
Always learning about hand planes. Looks like a great book
This would be a timely book for me. Please include me as well. Thanks!
Looks like a fun book, a well sharpened hand plane is a joy to use, they are also like potato chips, hard to have just one. I would love to win the book
I am really enjoying the router book that I recently won and am looking forward to writing about it when I'm done. Wouldn't it be great if I won this book too!
been learning the hard way some of the needs of planes to finesse joinery. a book like that would be nice.
I use both hand tools and power tools but am leaning to mostly hand tools. this book would help with that goal
My comment haiku:
Hand planes in my shop
Are really very useful
Until they get dull
Just making the jump into hand tools and decrease my use of power tools. Sounds like a good book.
It looks like a beautiful and useful book. As I've gotten into using hand tools it's been fun to learn more about them. Plus I have the added benefit of keeping the noise down when I work a little late in my garage shop.
Using a fine tuned hand plane is like driving a Jaguar, neither of which I have yet to experience......
Hand planes in my shop
Are really very useful
Until they get dull
Theres only one thing greater than a great plane a great plane book to teach you how to use it properly. I'm all about finesse and proper use of tools and who could ask for more than a book to teach me the fine inpliments of the trade.
This would make an exceptional addition to my library :)
Josh
When I bought my first new, yelnatS plane, nobody told me it did not come sharpened. Not pretty.
This looks like a great book to aid to my collection.
Handplanes - the essential tool of fine woodworking. Pro or hobbiest, everyone needs to know how to use and enjoy them.
I've recently revisited the use of hand tools over power tools. Where I've always looked towards using power tools by choice, hand tools have begun to draw me in. The more I can learn about their use, they greater my interest.
I'm finally just getting into hand planes. I'ld love to have a good book on them.
Having just gotten finished tuning up my latest acquisition (a modestly priced Footprint smoother), I am very much in the hand plane mind space. I am always looking for additions to my library. If I win the book - wonderful. If not, I will probably buy it. It sounds like a good one.
Having just tuned up my latest acquisition (a Footprint smoother), I am very much in the hand plane mind space. I am always looking for good additions to my library. This looks like a good one. If I win it - wonderful. If not I will more than likely buy it.
The more woodworking I do the more hand planes I am using ... it is not limited to hand planes either ... my hand tool collections is growing alot
Would love to read this book--I am experiencing a personal revelation/revival in my understanding and use of handplanes as more effective for many woodworking operations--and they are so quiet! Count me in.
Ted
Count me in for any freebie!
Another great book that would go well in my woodworking library.
Thanks to FWW for these promotions.
I've just started using hand planes more in my shop. Still a lot to learn, however. Using planes and scrapers has given my projects a finished look that sandpaper never did!
I look forwarded to reading this book...when I win it!
I've been designing my new shop specifically around the idea of combining traditional hand tools with modern power tools. This book looks like it would be a great guide to helping me accomplish this task. And, it'll probably be fun to read too.
This book appeals to me
I have been tuning up the few hand planes I currently own and am looking to add more. The book looks like a helpful resource.
count me in. looks like a good book!
I purchased a beautiful smoothing plane four years ago and was reluctant to use it due to lack of knowledge and experience. After reading articles and watching videos I elevated my comfort level so this tool is a true joy to use. I admit to becoming another hand tool addict and would gladly welcome this book into my home if my name is drawn.
This looks like what the wood doctor ordered! I would love to add this to my collection.
Cheers
John Verreault
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Like a lot of woodworkers I started out thinking that power tools were the way to go. That you could do everything with them. Then by chance I found an old wood body plane at a flee market, studied it, figured out how to adjust it, and then stared collecting old wood working tools. Now I find,as a lot of other wood workers do, that you can't replace all jobs in the shop with a power tool and that some times it's even faster and better to get a hand tool. Plus the sound and feel of an old plane is nice and there sure is a lot less fine dust to clog up you nose. Rick
Sounds like Mr. Pierce has been in my shop. Seems like no matter how many machines I use in the building of a project, some type of plane gets pulled out to complete the job. Mostly a hand plane, but sometimes a smoother to get 2 adjacent surfaces level. Love to get my hands on this book.
To a woodworking newbie like myself, trying to understand (let alone choose from) the hundreds of hand plane options can be a confusing and intimidating process. This book sounds like an excellent resource.
Awesome book, I am just now starting to realize the importance to having a properly tuned hand plane.
I am plotting my purchase of some planes - could use a good book on the subject.
This looks great.
Count me in!
Would love to add this to my library
I'd really love to have this information and help, as I've just invested in a number of new planes and feeling overwhelmed.
Having a background of 35 years working with steel, and only immersing myself in woodworking about 6 years ago, I have a lifetime of learning to accomplish without a lifetime left in which to do so. I have found that woodworking should have been my first love, as nothing fascinates me as much as all things wood, therefore, every bit of information and knowledge is a huge help in my learning curve. I've accumulated a small collection of hand tools so far and need all the help I can to learn how to use them to their fullest potential.
RONERIE
me too ... would love to have in my library.
Will this book teach me how to use hand planes on airplanes? Or the great plains?
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