Good day to everyone!My first question is:Does anyone know of a good woodworking school or seminars in or around Minnesota?I’ve been to a couple at the local Woodcraft,but I’m looking for something a little more comprehensive.Now for my real question:I just received a LN rabbeting block plane,now how do I tune up and use this tool?Don’t really have any experience using planes and I’m really unsure about tinkering with it as I don’t wanna screw something up!It seems like it needs to be honed before use,but my sharpening skills are not the best.What should I do?Thanks for all the help!
Blake
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Blake
Suggest you purchase the book, Complete Guide to Sharpening by Leonard Lee published by Tauton. Money well spent. I feel it paid for itself in about a week.
sarge..jt
FWW #128 (Jan/Feb 1998) has an article on rabbet planes, pages 48-51. A section of it explains tuning. It's a start. If you don't have that issue, let me know.
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
You're a lucky blakester to have an LN to learn on. Not that they won't benefit from tuning, but LN's are ready to go out of the box. Just start playing with it and get a feel for it. Start with trying to get an end grain shaving on doug fir or pine. If you get a clean one it's sharp and tuned as good as you'd ever need. Then hone it when it gets dull without changing the angles (Think Veritas honing jig and SC paper on glass.)
Just don't do what I did. My first encounter with a shoulder plane was with a borrowed Clifton 3 in 1. I didn't think the iron should be wider than the body so I tried to take a little width off on my 6 x 48 belt sander. The belt pulled it out of my grasp and the iron got wedged between the table and the belt. Cost me $30 or $40 to buy somebody else a new iron.
John O'Connell - JKO Handcrafted Woodworking
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