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   Peter36 | Feb 04, 2005 12:17am | #1

   I keep mine in a closed cabinet. The two biggest storage problems are dust, because it attracts and holds moisture, and your actual contact with the plane. Some people [myself included] have acidic skin that causes rust on metal very quickly. I purchased the Camelia oil from LN and at the end of everyday I wipe the unpainted parts of the plane down with the oil. I also wipe down the blade after each sharpening. These tools will give you some pretty good incentive to build a beautiful solid wood cabinet with handcut dovetails and a planed finish to store your tools in.   Peter.

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   bones | Feb 04, 2005 01:24am | #4

   When putting lubricant on, do you remove before planing? I would assume I do not want the lubricant getting on the wood? I wiped the lubricant off of the plane, maybe this was a mistake?

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   Midnight | Feb 04, 2005 02:35am | #5

   I canna speak for the effects of mineral oils, but the camilia oil I use never seems to harm any piece I plane; first few passes will transfer any residual oil onto the wood, subsequent passes will remove the wood, prob solved..

   I'm currently taking Slante's advise, building a cabinet with the aim of including a low wattage lightbulb inside to act as a heater... humidity and salt air is the bane of my locationMike Wallace

   Stay safe....Have fun

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   MarkRoderick | Feb 04, 2005 12:37am | #2

   I've purchased those plane bags they sell. After using a plane I also put some kind of lubricant on it, just a light coating. Every once and a while I rub bottom and sides on 600 grit sandpaper on a glass plate, which gets rid of any roughness.

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   billballeza | Feb 04, 2005 01:21am | #3

   I keep my LN #5 in the bag that came with it.. inside the same box it came in.

   I also wipe it down with camilla oil after each use.

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   bones | Feb 04, 2005 04:14am | #8

   Your's came in a bag? Was it a special deal? Mine was just wraped in paper.

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   billballeza | Feb 04, 2005 05:52am | #10

   Yeah, mine had a very nice woolen bag in the box.. although the plane itself was wrapped in a heavy brown wax paper.

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   BrentS | Feb 04, 2005 02:48am | #6

   I posted this tip in another thread,but I think it is relevant here.I live in Montreal Canada and we get cold and humidity here about as bad as you'll see.I keep all my handtools in a wall mounted tool box and in various drawers.To keep them safe from rust I buy a 10 dollar bag of silica cat litter,take some nylons,cut them up and make pouches out of them.I put about a cup of the litter in each pouch and put 2 in each drawer and in my tool box.The silica pulls moisture out of the air and keeps my tools rust free.It's the same stuff that's in those little packs you find in a box with electronic gear. The litter looks like small clear beads,there are green ones also that are mixed with chloryfyl,they'll work too but not as well.Change the bags every 2 months.

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   JeffHeath | Feb 04, 2005 08:11am | #11

   brent

   I use the little desicant bags in every drawer of my tool box, and on the shelves of my plane storage toolbox.  They really work great. 

   Camelia oil is my oil of choice for all my metal tools, and it does not bother the wood, or finish applied to it.  I've never had a problem.

   Jeff

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   Michmesquite | Feb 04, 2005 02:55am | #7

   Sweet. I just ordered a L-N #60 1/2 and a #8. Gotta watch out for this hand tool addiction. 

   I use the Camelia Oil L-N sells and it keeps the rust off all my hand tools. I'll be building a box similar to Jim tolpin's design later this month.

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   Michael in San Jose

   "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." Bertrand Russell 

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   EdHarrow | Feb 04, 2005 05:15am | #9

   I have an excellent, proprietary, storage system for my planes; I'd be happy to store your LN planes for you. 

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   bones | Feb 04, 2005 05:20pm | #14

   Would that be like a plane valet?

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   EdHarrow | Feb 04, 2005 05:41pm | #15

   LOL, I'll never tell.  To that I'll only add that it was handed down to my by my Grandfather.  I'll take good care of them...  :-)

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   notrix | Feb 04, 2005 08:36am | #12

   A nice dilema to be in!

   I just got a LN No. 73 and have been wondering what to do. If there's one thing more beautiful than a new LN plane it's a nice old aged one. Metal takes on a nice patina over the years. gets some dings on it, becomes an old friend.

   At first before I was putting it to daily use, I was re wrapping the plane in the paper and boxing it. Now I leave it out in line with my other daily use planes.

   As long as the blades sharp I don't care if it "ages".

   Notrix

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   cowtown | Feb 04, 2005 10:34am | #13

   After seeing in the MJD catalogues little cases, kinda like overshoes, for smaller planes like the 90 series rabbet planes, I made some for the ones I had.

   Swmbo presented me with the LN chisel plane at christmas, and if ever there was a plane that would not get along with a bag, almost certainly suffer damage to the edge, this is it. So within the week I had made a little shoe for it.

   While I have trubble putting plate jointers back into their moulded plastic cases, The planes just seem to wanna go back into their little shoes-no problems there.

   Eric in Calgary