Wooden Planes: A Survey and Demonstration of their Use
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- All of my videos have been about metal handplanes and transitional handplanes. This video is about the four wooden handplanes that I own and it includes a brief demonstration of how to adjust the cutter. The four planes are an Ogontz coffin smoothing plane, a Scioto Works razee jack plane, an Auburn Tool Co. jointer plane, and a Randall & Cook jointer plane. I believe that the Randall and Cook jointer plane is the oldest plane that I own, 184 years young. Enjoy!
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Helpful. Thank you.
I remember in one of James Krenov's books, on the topic of handplanes, he said something to the effect that 'metal planes are ok, but they will never "sing" like a wooden plane'
I am working on a coffin plane ,that I think is from Ohio tool works . I have used a lot of epoxy and wood glue. It had nails and some other metal holding it together. I have laminated a new soul onto it.Probably was not worth the effort, but was given to me by a friend with good intentions. So I feel compelled to make an honest effort. Part of its problem was a blade and wedge that were a bit to wide . Liked your video on the wooden planes. L have several that I have restored or made.
This is a similar situation to my grandfather's plane. Enough sentimental value that I didn't want to abandon it, even though it had no blade.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
That’s all I use, I love woodies.
Agreed, they are great. And they have a lot of character. Thanks for watching!.
It is nice to see wooden planes getting more recognition online. To your point about not needing premium brands - I have no access to old planes, but I have access to newly made, very cheap german style wooden planes and they are very much a diamond in the rough - beech body with hornbeam soles, thick irons that last quite long ( I dont know the particular kind of steel, but they behave quite well, reasonably long intial sharpness and they stay very long in the "woodworking sharp" territory - they will not cut hair, but will plane just fine). Now, I had to spend some time on each one to put them into working condition, but they work like a charm. Now I have a whole fleet. I think there were no powertools, wooden planes would make quite a comeback since they are so much easier to use for prolonged periods of time.
Thanks for your comments! I think that more people will give them a try. My first experience with wooden planes was not great, because I didn't know what I was doing. Now that we have the internet, that is not really a problem any more.
@@MarkSLSmith1 I hope so, they advantage of adjusting the plane body to fit exactly my hand has been great and like you say, now that the internet is a thing everything is easy especially with so many people and differenet approaches they provide, everyone eventually finds something they will gravitate towards. I struggled with tuning handplanes into working condition for long while (I have no prior experience, I learned everything online or from books) until I found channel called mr. chickadee - very practical tips on handplanes and when I watched his videos many things started clicking although I might hear similar information from other sources prior, he just had very straightforward an concise way of explaing the important details I would othervise miss.
I have a few wooden planes. They're all pretty how ya doing. Years ago you could get them for the price of firewood. Now whenever I see one people think they're selling something of value.
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Thanks!