Grinding & Honing with a Honing Guide | Hand Plane Foundations

Welcome to my Hand Plane Foundations course. In this course I'm going to introduce the different types of bench planes and discuss their setup and use, focusing on the planes you’ll need most as a new hand tool woodworker. I’ll cover sharpening the iron, setting up the cap iron, and troubleshooting and tuning the tool up to perform at its best. I’ll finish up by building a modern two tone cutting board from some beautiful North American hardwoods, completely by hand.

[@MrWenglish]

Your demonstration is first class. Thank you. Your voice projection is so clear and well paced that it is so easy to hear and understand. One of the best, clearest demos I have heard for a long time. Video quality is equally as good. I wish I had discovered you earlier. Thank you.

[@mr.shellcracker9161]

Great video.

[@ibrhemahmed170]

Thank you for this and preparing video

[@concddad]

I was surprised that you began at 220 grit. I've always started at 120 or (I thought preferably) 80 grit. The problem was that while those grits ground the blade quickly they also wore out very quickly and made grinding unsustainably expensive. So I'm wondering: Does a higher grit lasts longer even though it means some more strokes when grinding?

[@BobRozaieskiFineWoodworking]

Yes, it does last longer. And you’d be surprised how fast 220 grit is on vintage blades.

[@minervadev6094]

this is an excellent tutorial thank you! it is one of the clearest and most accessible I've seen. I'm a beginning woodworker and I've been having trouble with sharpening like this - I'm working with vintage stanley irons and diamond stones. I have tried with and without the honing guide, but I worry that this method of applying pressure to achieve a camber might damage my diamond stones. Bob, can you speak to that at all ? Also, how long did it take to get your inital 25 degree bevel? I have worked some irons for what feels like over an hour both on my 'very coarse' diamond stone and 120 grit paper with incomplete results. I find the paper clogs up with shavings. Should I try a finer paper, or go back to my stone? Thanks for all of your videos, they're super helpful!

[@BobRozaieskiFineWoodworking]

You won’t damage your diamond stones buy adding camber to a blade. As for the time to create a new bevel on an old Stanley blade, it took maybe 20 minutes on 220 grit paper. It should not take over an hour. Use a brush to clean the paper frequently so it doesn’t clog. And don’t use cheap sandpaper. Cheap sandpaper breaks down too fast on metal. I use 3M Sandblaster or Norton 3X. Both are stearate coated paper that will not clog with metal filings and will last much longer than cheap paper. But you still need to change the paper when cutting starts to slow down. You should be able to establish a brand new bevel on an old 2” Stanley plane blade in about 20 minutes and using 2-3 full sheets of paper. If it’s taking you a lot longer than that, you need to change the paper more often and use more pressure.