How to Adjust a Wooden Plane
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- Adjusting a Wooden Plane can be more of an art than a science. knowing how to adjust a wooden plane is half the battle. today We want to look at how to adjust a wooden body plane with a hammer or mallet.
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I know there isn’t a lot of attention for the video. But for those with the interest this is a gem, thanks a lot!
Informative, light, and fun! Thank you!
I love wooden planes. They just feel so good. Plus I love love the fact that if it isn't working right you just wack it till it's fixed.
LOL you that is about it!
Thanks. Very nice. I found one in an old garage. I'm fixing it up. Maybe show us how to sharpen it one day.
here you go. ua-cam.com/video/vAX3CpJxtGw/v-deo.html
Hi Wright. I too use a rawhide mallet and they are invaluable. I used them for 1911 work for years. I’ve never marred any metals. When it comes to woodworking I’ve used it to knock things into place. No problems. I get mine through Brownells.
Neat, i have a plane almost exactly like this! Now i finally know how to use it!
Fantastic, James! Thanks a lot! 😃
Looking forward to the next video!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thank you! This video is really helpful. I just inherited a set of wooden planers from my late grampa and it is quite difficult to set them right.
Good to know how to adjust these kind of planes! I have a few of the old wooden planes from my dad, he was a carpenter and gave me his toolbox when they moved to a small apartment. But I never use them because... I had no idea how to set them properly. So: Thanks James!
Sweet Sounds like a fun time ahead with experimentation!
You helped me a lot. Thank you 🙏
Great Info!!!! I am learning a lot!!! Thank You!!!! 😃👍😎
Very helpful.
Good timing for this video!!
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That's for covering wooden planes more!
thanks Garry I want to do more with them!
Sometimes I use the bench and the metal bit of the vice handle to adjust my coffin planes. I whack the but of the plane on the bench to unseat the wedge, or upside down the toe of the plane to back the blade off a bit, then the wedge on the edge of the bench to seat it properly. Quick adjustments when you don’t have the hammer close by.
So true works well.
Time to start a fight. :-) When storing wooden planes do you recommend leaving the wedge tight and possibly causing the wedge to split from humidity/temperature change or leaving the wedge loose and potentially have the blade slip and get damaged/lost?
I back it out slightly but still leave enough pressure to hold the iron in place just not driven all the way down to lock it down.
Hi! Simple, usefull and great explanations!.
I 'v got a large, old wooden planer a few months ago and i should restore it and make it usefull.
I think i have made a mistake applying it a bit of gas in the place where fit the iron to remove old dust. Did i do it well?
When will you do the video about restoring old planes?
Well, a great greeting from Buenos Aires. God bless you all.
That is fine for cleaning the wood. Sounds like you did well. That video should be coming out next weekend.
Videos on a Wednesday? Must be busy tomorrow. Do have a question though: will the tiny tack hammer that HF sells be ok for adjusting irons or will the magnatizim possibly cause an issue?
DUDE!! i was thinking it was Thursday all day! I just realized with your comment it is only Wed!
@@WoodByWrightHowTo lol
I've been using a tack hammer for years with no problems, but mine isn't magnetic. A couple of hard strikes on a chunk of steel will probably get rid of the magnetism in the hammer.
@@criswilson1140 ok, so no real need to buy one of those de-magnitize things or anything just band it on something like angle iron or tubed steel?
@@drawlele Yep. A good hard bang will usually demag them.
Could you please make a video; how to make your crooked irons cutting edge straight by hand and not by grinding because it’s a big pet peeve of mine?
I will put a little bit more pressure on the side that is longer. And over the course of a sharpening or two it comes back. Usually the problem is if you turn the iron then you'll be putting more pressure naturally on the side closer to you. And you can counteract this by just thinking about putting pressure on the opposite side.
Do you use the same small metal hammer to adjust the wooden jointer plane (the one I see on the tool wall behind you)? Or do you need a bigger hummer for that?
Yep. I use the same hammer for that. I'll use it on all of my wooden planes.
I'm new to hand tools but jumped straight in to wooden planes, basically because of Mr Chickadee, but I'm having a bit of trouble with the smoother where the chip breaker keeps moving back, presumably when I hit the iron to adjust it down. I like your advice about really light taps which may help that problem but does anyone have any other advice about what I might be doing wrong?
It sounds like there's a friction issue between the chip breaker and the iron. Usually on these you really need to crank it down and have a very good fit between them.
Many European wooden planes have those bolts with lens shaped heads driven into their bodies (heels and/or toes) so you can use a metal hammer without worrying about damaging the body. Of course there is no bolt in the wedge, but hey, making a new one is easy enough.
Right on. Most of the older ones actually use wooden buttons instead of metal ones. But around 70 years or so ago using bolts and metal heads as a button came in the fashion especially in Europe.
I recently acquired a couple of old wooden transitional planes, I know a lot of folks use wax to lubricate the sole of a metall plane, was wondering if that's also necessary with a wooden plane...
Yes that is most common. Wax has a lot of uses.
It’s so odd seeing my hand plane on screen
Thank you for sharing
Thanks man. This was a fun one to play with!
Wood By Wright How 2 I forget, does it have the laminated iron?
i absolutely love the sound and feel of my wooden planes but they are such a pain to dial in, let alone adjusting it back and forth as needed. the organic feel is unbelievable and there is no denying that these planes can work amazingly well, but there is a reason why baily's planes took over the market in the late 1900's. also, you cannot match wooden molding planes for the sheer variety. not to mention the fact that you can, relatively easily, make a custom wooden molding plane for any project where a baily just doesnt match that versitility. and i do love my wooden jointer.
So true. it's actually kind of surprising that when the Bailey pattern planes started coming out they did not sell well. It took a couple decades for them to catch on. That is the reason they then started making transitional planes. So that the old school woodworkers could have the best of both worlds and then slowly wean them off of wooden planes.
@@WoodByWrightHowTo it is kinda funny that you say that. i just took a picture of a couple transitonal planes that i have so that i can show them to you with an email.
So just a little tap taperoo
On new planes, strike buttons, yes or no?
If I make a plane and it has enough space for a strike button I put it on there. On a small one like this there just isn't enough space for it. In that case it causes more problems as it can split the body.
I've come to really like the old wooden planes after making a laminated wooden scrub plane with a spare iron and chipbreaker, it used to be a smoother before I decided to make it a scrub since I needed one. But when it was a smoother, I felt like I had a lot more control with blade depth and angle with light taps with a hammer than with the adjusters on my metal one due to no backlash. It takes longer to get it juust right, but when you do get it there, it's just a feeling of "noice".
I recently also found a vintage Japanese common/finishing plane. The wood body needs to be completely remade because of a massive unrepairable crack and the sole behind the mouth was totally bulged out from I guess, from lemongrasspicker's video, years of being hit directly on it's rear. So far, I've made a blank out of NA white oak, but eventually I'd like to make one out of the traditonal Japanese white oak.
that sounds like a great projct!
I found a coffin plan in an old garage. Sanlusky Ohio.
19th.
oh how do I love myself some wooden planes! I also love restoring them and I'm exited to see what you have to do the plane you have here! I can go all out to make them into functional art pieces haha
here is a link to a horned plane I restored: www.reddit.com/r/handtools/comments/iycvid/as_addition_to_my_last_post_a_video_demonstration/
and here is it doing what it's supposed to do: www.reddit.com/r/handtools/comments/iyck1d/i_supertuned_an_antique_german_horned_plane/
I would like to know what you think about it!
ps, I'm going to replicate this model into a scrub plane, the stanley no.4 isn't cutting it anymore! quiet litterly