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Emery Cloth /ziconia
November 25, 2011

Does anybody have, and would please share, any experience with emery or aluminum zirconia for flattening metal plane soles (at least for an initial material removal)? I do not have…
W. Cuddy Wooden Plane
November 25, 2011

Does anyone know where I can buy plane irons for beading planes? I have a W. Cuddy plane stamped with 5/4. Thanks.
trouble handplaning hard wood
November 10, 2011

i'm using a #4 smoother to plane some curly maple i want to use as an electric guitar top. i'm making my blade adjustments on a piece of 2x4 (pine)…
Workbench thickness
November 9, 2011

I'm posting this in "hand tools" because I want to get a hand-tool users perspective on the subject. Due to my recent post (3 weeks ago?) here, I have come…
Hand plane Chatter
November 7, 2011

I have a # 2 Marsh hand plane that is in good shape. I sharpened it today and now it is chattering real bad. It does it on very fine…
How thick does a plane iron need to be? was: replacement irons for old Stanley bench plane?
November 7, 2011

I have a collection of old Stanley planes and I have tuned them up and they are all good “user” tools. I have reground and sharpened the original irons and…
How to start out flat?
October 31, 2011

Ok suppose you are starting out and (for some perverse reason) you enjoy the bootstrap process of building a shop. For example, build a bench so that you can build…
Soaking oil stones?
October 29, 2011

I just picked up a cheap chinese aluminum oxide combo stone in order to clean up and flatten some old chisels and plane irons I’ve been collecting for a while.…
Hand Plane Technique
October 26, 2011

I'm new to Hand Planes. I've recently flattened the sole and sharpend and cambered the blade to my new hand plane. I've adjusted the depth so it's taking shaving about…
Does anyone actually dimension by hand?
October 18, 2011

I've been working wood for about a year, and really enjoy working with hand tools. As such, I've got a nice collection of veritas planes; from the scrub to jointer…

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