How to Sharpen and Set Up Hand Tools
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2018
- I want to spend my time in the shop working with wood, not sharpening my tools, and as such, I want to sharpen my blades as quickly and efficiently as possible. Here is a quick guide on how to sharpen and set up hand planes. I want consistent, repeatable results. No matter what stones/abrasives you use to sharpen your tools, the end result should be the same: a sharp blade. Whether you free hand sharpen or use jigs, the goal is to create a burr along the whole leading edge, then remove that burr along the whole back of the edge. You can do that by hand on a sidewalk or on a $10,000 machine, the amount of refinement you require is the only difference.
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What kinds of things would you like to learn next?
Have you done any leather work? If so, then maybe something involving a beginners guide could be possibly useful.
Hi Anne that was an amazing explanation!! I restore and have and use many old style tools along with many new ones. Have you thought about any collection videos? Or the always fun trim and finishing project videos? Many thanks jerry
I just like the variety like you do now, different aspects of your woodworking, your gardening, your animals, and of course, YUM, your cooking
Hey thanks! I've been doing the "all trades" thing all along, but only recently started sharing more of the homesteading stuff. Glad to know it's being watched and appreciated!
Hey Anne just thought of a good video idea. You have touched on it before but I think a in-depth look at at what inspires you to do all the things you do and ideas how others can pay it forward also ? Cheers!!
I love to see young people taking up what many young techies consider dinosaur trades. I took up blacksmithing in 1981 and became a fulfilled man ( with a degree in English). It made all the difference. I applaud your videos.
Thanks so much Ross! Blacksmithing is good for the soul. Well, any work that employs your hands and your mind at the same time is good for the soul.
You taught an old dog a new trick with the narrow piece of scrap to check for even stick out. I knew I was keeping all those scraps for some reason! Thanks Anne!!
Bob Lasley glad to hear it Bob!
Thank You for making this tutorial. Never too late to learn new methods and "polish" sharpening skills. You too kind in sharing your skills.
so glad you found it helpful!
That was the best explanation of sharpening I have seen. My shop teacher, way back when they still had shop, explained about flattening, hollow grind, creating a bur, and stroping. I haven’t seen anyone explain those concepts as well as you did. Everyone on the web talks about creating a but but for the noob, no one explains what that is. To make this a perfect video, add a piece about stroping the blade to get rid of the bur.
Thanks so much for the kind words! While stropping is an excellent choice in some circumstances, I don't use it for my plane blades because it actually rounds the edge and takes away that repeatability I was talking about.
Wow. I just learned about hammer adjusting and the ruler trick from you - and I have been doing this for 20 years ! Thank you!
Dave Drapak thanks Dave! Glad you watched with an open mind :)
Great video showing how to sharpen a planer blade. You and many others need to know how to do this often when you set your plane with the mouth down and the blade protruding even a little it will roll the blade edge over. Always lay your panes on the side, store your planes with the blade above the mouth and in a vertical position if possible.
Ray C. Thanks Ray! That second part about plane placement is a bit of an old wive’s tale, but if you’re already in the habit, no reason to change it!
You are a good teacher, you haven't forgotten what it was like when you were first learning so you know how to build a knowledge bridge to help people learn.
Thanks so much Daniel!
Great video, your explanation was as good as I’ve seen and heard others do the same thing. Making you on point and true. You do have a style. Keep up the great videos Mrs. Anne
Thanks Joe!
Thanks Anne !!! I see a lot of things I’m doing wrong with sharpening.. your my favorite woodworker now ! 😊
Hi Anne. I don’t use a lot of hand tools because I couldn’t get them sharpened correctly. Your video has taught me a lot and you have demystified a lot of things for me. I think I will give it a try again. Great video and teaching. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks so much for taking the time to mention that Dale! So glad I could help. Best of luck, and if you run into any issues, let me know!
The absolute best instruction I have seen on the subject Anne!! Thank you for sharing.... :)
Most complete explanation I've seen yet. Thank you!
My son and I took your class yesterday at Rockler. Thank you for the information. Very helpful, and this video is a good follow up.
Very helpful tutorial, Anne, Thank you!
Sweet! Outstanding! You really are my go to professor. You explained the sharpening process perfectly. Your tricks and tips a very helpful.
Thank you! So glad to hear it!
Thanks for a great video Anne. It seems that no matter how many sharpening videos I watch I always learn something new.
I watch a lot of homesteading videos and one of my favorite channels in particular has gone over sharpening knives, axes, and chisels, many, many times and yet I still learned new things from your video. I loved the way you broke everything down and explained what you were wanting to achieve with each step. It always helps to know why you are doing something, not just how someone does it. It definitely helps in the learning process and allows for good thought process on how you may be able to improve on some methods or processes. Keep up the great work on your videos!
Thanks so much Bob! Glad you found some useful tips on a muuuuuch covered topic :)
Concise and excellent delivery on a topic most woodworkers have spent a great deal of time agonizing over. Most of us have picked our side of the sharpening fence but STILL aren't completely happy with our methods. I'm still a waterstone person, because, like you, it's what I learned on and what I invested in. +1 on the Lie Nielsen guide. I can freehand plane blades but narrow chisels I just can't seem to do. Repeatable results and ease of use wins. thanks for the effort in this video.
Driftless Joinery thanks so much for taking the time to add your +1
Wow....I also have watched many many plane set ups/sharpening videos, and I wish you came along way sooner in my life... that is one of the best explanations I have seen. Thank you Anne.
Thanks so much! Glad you found it helpful!
One of the best sharpening videos I've seen! Love the white boards!
Great tutorial explanation and demonstration!
Excellent tutorial! Permanently bookmarked.
Tom Frymire thanks!
I just found your channel because i was looking for a video on how to sharpen some of my dad's old hand planes. I was a mechanic by trade but am trying to get into more wood working just as a hobby so thanks for the video and the explanation and keep up the great work.
Thanks for watching!
When I teach wood turning, I suggest that all senses but taste should be used. When sharpening, listening can be helpful. It synergizes with touch and there are many nuances that can be discerned. I very much like your method agnostic approach with you demonstrating what works well for you. Excellent & informative video.
Thanks Kenzie!
That's a great shirt! - We Plane, We Saw, We Conquer.
I agree. Is there some place where we can find that T-Shirt?
Wow! Good stuff. Really really good stuff. Thanks.
That has got to be one of the most thorough and informative walkthroughs of sharpening, laid out in layman's terms, not to mention that it is also relatively a short video.👌
Awesome job there, Anne👍
Thank you.
Really appreciate that Bill!
This is great !!!! thank you.
Joli démonstration bravo 🛠😉
Nice work on the video, I'll probably watch it a couple more times.
Thank You Thank You very informational by watching your video I picked up something’s I’ve been doing wrong but now I’ll correct them. Thxs again and take care
Nice Job Anne, good advice on mastering one method.
Great video! Concise and informative!
Thanks Anne, that was really informative, nice little tips.
thank you so much i have been holding back on getting hand planes because i was not sure on how to go about sharpening and setting up planes. i have watched several videos on this subject but there was so much difference between methods and parts were left out i found it difficult to truly grasp. you took away the mysticism of it and gave me a very solid jumping off point.
Glad to hear it!
Well done! Lots of good detailed info!!
Another great video! Thank you for breaking it down step-by-step.
Glad it helped Nick!
Thanks for the info Anne! 😃👍👊
I think i have now understood how to sharpen my blades really good explanation
Awesome! 👍
This was awesome. You’re an excellent teacher. Thanks!
No Sheds thanks so much!
Thanks Anne, never been able to get tools properly sharp nor really use a plane, turns out I had the chip breaker set badly and after watching this video I have it set and working great, also got my plane blades and chisels hair shaving sharp so now have a bald left arm
Hey that is so awesome to hear!
Nice job!
Thank you for all you do, you are an inspiration. This is an excellent video, I love how you always include how to hold and use your body when using tools, it is very helpful thank you!
Karren Seely glad it’s helpful Karren!
Several years ago I made the switch from traditional grinding stones and wheels and now use CBN grinding wheels and cards to sharpen my tools. I no longer have to dress a grinding wheel and even removed the wheel guard from my bench grinder. I discovered the CBN type wheels and cards for grinding woodturning tools. You can sharpen carbide tools with CBN sharpeners but carbide will wear them out in time so diamond cards is a better option but you cannot beat CBN sharpening for high speed steel. Very good information in your videos and keep up the good work.
I agree on the CBN wheels for HSS. I wouldn't use them for Carbon steel.
you are amazing! love your videos
Awesome video. Learned a lot, now I don't have to be intimidated when sharpening blades. Thank you
Hi another great video all so thanks for being an inspiration to my 2 daughters they are both trainee framers here in australia plus learning other different types of woodworking from you and April Wilkerson . They have not missed any episodes yet look forward to many more
Thanks for sharing with them Paul!
awesome awesome awesome video! thank you for this amazing tutorial and info.
Thanks for watching!
Great job explaining sharpening.. it can be so intimidating!!
Thanks Jake!
Luv the change of clothes through the video
Miss Smith hahaha had to do a second take because I realized there was more info I needed to cover when I watched it back.
Great knowledge, it’s a surprisingly in depth subject. May be worth breaking things like this down into smaller chunks. Rob Cosman does it well.
Well said! This is a very subjective subject with a variety of methods and technologies to get to scary sharp!
I love the way yt's copy each other on this subject! I feel like it's one big info commercial for all the wood working manufactures, which it has morft too! So sad!
But Anne you made a good point, buy one system and stick with it! Best part of the whole video! But it should be , a system for beginners, intermediate depending on intrest or skills, and expert, people who do this work for a living, or pro side business.
Another good one, watch those fingers. The ruler technique is one I didn't know, very good tip. I sharpen my knives and chisels and having sharp tools is so much easier to work with and actually safer.
Rob Cossman does the same technique and credits another for its invention...
Thanks for taking me to school. I am a rookie and I am trying to learn as much as I can.
Thanks for watching Patrick! Sure hope I helped clear some stuff up for you.
It's important to know how to sharpen so you can fix your chisels after your friends come over and smack them against each other. :)
hahahaha yes, that is very important.
Or your idiot brother-in-law uses them to cut cast aluminum in an attempt to create a patch for an oil pan... Oh, wait, you can't fix that.
Great video Anne! lots of good info thank you for sharing the video.😎👍JP
Am new to using planes, just restored a record plane I got from my dad and I have a new one as well. This video was interesting hope to use this information in the future.
Thanks Gareth!
I sent your future project that you pick will be okay as long as we get to see you build that's what it's all about I'm 70 years old and I want to learn
This was a fantastic vid, hoping to get some planes eventually, but I also love your apron (:
Das ist cool instrument !
Awesome advice 👍
Glad it was helpful! Looks like you did a pretty good job without it though :)
@@AnneofAllTrades thank you as always 🙏
Now that's sharp.
I had no idea there was so much behind sharpening those blades! Thanks!
Ohhhh and there's so much more, but I figured I'd try to keep it as simple and to the point as possible.
Hello, I like a lot to see your videos on UA-cam and also on Instagram. Like a lot to licensing you voice and especial your pronunciation. The best for you and your lovely farm. With love from Portugal
Good advice on sticking to and leading one method.
Like many things, If you don't learn to do something properly then you won't know why another method is better or worse, and you will probably end up thinking that every method is terrible.
Hey I'm a Maker hear hear
Great video, as always. You break everything down so well so that we beginners are able to follow and learn. BTW: The "I LIke Ike" button is really cool.
Glad it was helpful! I have an alpaca named Ike. I had to order it :)
learn from the best
Hay hay hay. Her shirt changes just like a Bob Ross painting video. Besides that great information.😁
Anne, Liked your video. White board and ordered process good. Have watched others whom I respect for there knowledge and practiced along the way. One thing though tools have to be used. LOL! some times I'm using power then using hand tools (Hybrid Wood worker) Did learn something new today ..a tip I will use today. The piece of wood scrape you ran over the blade in adjustment!!! An Oh Dah ! moment. Thanks! Keep it going. You have a special niche in being "of all trades."
Glad you found it helpful!
Great vid mate! This was a good watch. Like you, I ended up skipping straight from 1000 to 8000. When I started out, I was very fastidious in the way that I progressed through the grits. I didn't realise just how much work I was creating for myself. I've since trimmed the fat going from 300 for primary, 1500 for secondary (I like how it develops my cutting edge a bit more slowly that 1000 - longer before I have to grind it back), further hone at 8000 and then strop. I don't even strop with the suede side and compound anymore, I just go straight to the grain side. What felt like a bit of a chore now is just a nice break from work.
P.S. I have from PTSD and experienced a TBI which affects my executive functioning; I'd love to see you cover more ways in which you manage your attention and work flow in the shop.
Hope you're well :-)
Always hated planning,arms and back hurt like crazy, I'm going to try the core technique and see if that helps. Thanks for the tips and please share more.
Cheers Chris!
Your unscripted presentation style makes it very obvious you know what you are talking about. Great video.
David Smith thanks David!
I literally just got my diamond sharpening stones in the mail within the past few days, this video will be very helpful. Thanks!
9:42 "astronomically small" I couldn't have said it better! It's amazing that you can't see the burr, but you can still feel it.
hear hear!
Amo seus videos o melhor é que não entendo nada do que você fala mas fico com o visual é sempre bem legal ver você atuando sem contar que você é um colírio um otimo remédio para olhos feios como o meu
We plane, we saw, we kicked ass !
fastidious.....That is the word of the day. Nice job! Its nice to see a female that knows the subject and is not just in front of the camera as a pretty face. Subbed I did a video on a dedicated sharpening station you might find useful. Its not the quality of yours but it might be helpful with the water stones.
Hitechredneck I’ll check it out thanks!
Anne,
A good tutorial for beginners and us old farts too. I liked the small wood block test for evenness and protrusion and I will be trying that as well as the hammer adjustment. I don't recall that you ever really dealt with removal of the burr and whether to remove it just once or at each stage.
I cannot emphasis enough that if you are just starting out "go diamond" even though the initial cost might be more. I use Waterstones and the mess and fussiness is not worth the time and effort. When my stones die they will be replaced with diamonds, everybody's best friend.
Also I agree that simple jigs are best but I do freehand too. I think the argument on thick blades vs. thin is a waste of time. I have a Hock blade in my #4 but a thin blade in my jack plane and get good results with both. My living proof is Paul Sellers who uses Stanley's and the like with thin blades and his results cannot be argued. He also has excellent tutorials on sharpening and even he now uses diamonds almost exclusively. A diamond stone set and a spray bottle of window cleaner and you can sharpen anything, anywhere.
I love the variety of your videos and the information that you provide. Thank you.
Thanks Brian! Yeah the diamond stones are definitely the way to go. Incidentally, I first learned about them at the school that Paul helped establish at Homestead Heritage. Some of the finest craftsmen I'd ever met, and all of them use diamond.
You broke the golden rule of not resting your plane on the blade. You should always lay them on their side!
That's not a rule, it's a suggestion, and a fairly pointless one at that. The amount of time lost grabbing my plane from an uncomfortable resting angle and resetting my blade that inevitably will get bumped out of position while setting it on it's side far outweighs having to sharpen my blade one extra time over hundreds of hours of use due to the dullness that may or may not result from setting on it's sole on the bench.
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You know what your talking about. great > :-) ,3
Excellent video. I see you have your planes standing flat on your worktable. What is your opinion on that or storing them on their side. Thank you for a great tutorial.
Doesn't matter how you store them. There is an old adage that you should store them on their sides, and if you get into that habit, that's fine, but it's not necessary.
great information. I only wish there were links to the honing guides.
Added the links! Thanks for the suggestion.
thank you. I am just finishing my dream shop and have a long shopping list on Amazon of things I would like to get and I have been looking for something to help me sharpen me chisels and a hand plane I am in the middle of restoring.
Hi Anne, thanks for all your cool videos! I have a question about sharpening plane blades. I've noticed on some sharpening instructional videos, the lateral edges of the sharpened bevel are rounded over very slightly by applying pressure to first one side of the bevel, then the other for just a few strokes on the sharpening apparatus. Any thoughts on this and what would be the purpose?
Hey Corey! That is actually a fantastic practice, and will be something I cover in my next sharpening video, as understanding why it's important only becomes apparent after using a sharp, square blade- it will leave "plane tracks" aka little lines on the board. Easing the edges of the blade stops that from happening.
Is it preferable to use a brass hammer for tuning or wood a plastic one work also.
You can use any kind of hammer you'd like. Some folks don't like steel hammers because they can mar the plane.
Very interesting and informative! You give more in-depth explanations for why to do something than anyone else I've come across. I've been using a cheap guide with the DMT diamond plate extra fine (it came in a kit with a coarse and fine plates, but I rarely use them) followed by a pass on a 3000 grit waterstone, and finished with a 8000 grit stone. It seems to work pretty good, at least I can shave the hair off my arm, so I guess that's pretty good. You mentioned NOT putting pressure on the forward stroke because of the slurry that builds up. Does it go under the blade or something? It seems to just get pushed ahead of the blade. I'm just not clear on why not to do that. Perhaps you could explain?
I was really just covering bases with that comment. Some folks believe that that slurry ahead of the blade dulls it. I am not scientific enough (or, frankly) interested enough to put that to the test. I'd rather just get back to woodwork.
Okay, thanks.
Thanks, Anne!
Where did you get the ‘screwdriver’ that you use on the knurled knobs of sharpening jig and planes?
It's from Lie-Nielsen Toolworks.
When would you use a low jack plane vs. a regular plane?
Almost Always. Actually I prefer the low angle jack to any other plane.
Hey the shirt is cool, are they available?
Where did you get the apron at
Kram Awagatuka linked in the video description!
What kind of oil did you wipe on the blade?
Jojoba oil :)
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Who makes that neat leather apron?
Linked in the video description :)
Hey Anne, great video! I have been using king water stones for years and they seem to do the job (800-4000-8000) my 4000 wore down to the point where it cracked so now I just go from 800-8000. How do you find the nortons stand up? The kings seem to wear pretty quickly and thought maybe the nortons would last longer. If those aren't nortons you're using I apologize, they look like nortons.
Again fantastic video as always
Cheers
Hey Bruce! They are Nortons, though I think they wear similarly to the Kings. Ohishi seem to wear more slowly, but they are a tad more pricey and I'd like to wear through my Norton's before I start looking to greener pastures. One thing that will help any of them is only soaking during use, rather than having them in water all the time. Sticking the stones in water 15 minutes before you use them gives them plenty of time to rehydrate.
Wow! That I didn't know about soaking them all the time, mine are in water 24-7, but I was told you could go either way it wouldn't hurt them, but if it helps them to not wear as fast, even a little bit less wear would be something, I'll give it a whirl :-)
Keep up the great work, looking forward tk the next one
Cheers
Ok this is a hot topic. With lots of different options and opinions.
I use different size planes 2 3,4,5,5A,6, 7,8 and other Stanley's, amt, craftsman and many other types and that is not counting the 45 and 55 in my arsenal.
where would I get some blades for all of them? your link is for a 2 inch blade.
do you have any links to other ones?
Robert Wilson you can get individual blades directly from the Hock Tools website or can search individually on amazon for your needs
@@AnneofAllTrades Thank you for the information.
Is the last handplane a corrugated N°4?
A corrugated #3 :)
Hi good evening
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Are you using Hock blades?
In some of my older tools, yes! Great value for the money.
I saw the thickness of your blades and immediately thought of them.