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A Stay-set # 3 Record Bench Plane

A Stay-set # 3 Record Bench Plane

It's quite a lovely plane really. Compact and lightweight, feisty in the hand and then dead gutsy. That's how I feel about all of the #3s really. I love plucking them from my tools from time to time and seeing them flip, turn and twist to

Mis-placing Your Plane

Here is a video we put together on misplacing your bench plane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOlLVtz3RCI It's been a struggle but we're gaining ground. I have learned from the maxim that, whereas practice makes perfect, it also makes permanent, paralleling the maxim that

Which Bench Plane?

Which Bench Plane?

I use a variety of hand planes, bench planes actually, in the day to day of making, writing and filming because on the one hand I want to use what people can get hold of and afford at a reasonable price and I tend feel a little nauseous when snobbism

Quick Plane Tips (Pun Intended)

Quick Plane Tips (Pun Intended)

I was a boy when I first saw it. George planed the board flat and it looked flat to me. What did I know? Life was different then I think. 15 years olds, in a workshop filled with adult men, I knew then I didn’t know anything; at least

Why I Use Two Planes

Why I Use Two Planes

In the beginning I couldn't think why my mentoring craftsman always used but one plane except perhaps he couldn't afford two. Then I realised he had loaned me his second one. Of course not everyone uses two planes and not everyone owns two either. I started

Tap Adjustment & Set for Panel Planes

Tap Adjustment & Set for Panel Planes

The panel plane I treasure here has no mechanical adjustment and relies on setting the depth of cut and blade alignment to the sole using simple and positive hammer taps. I know that many people, mostly engineers and such, might consider tap adjusting archaic and inaccurate, and I understand that,

Plane No 3—The Shoulder plane

Plane No 3—The Shoulder plane

Shoulder planes date back to the early 1800s with the zenith here in Britain being throughout the late 1800s and into the mid-decades of the 1900s when they effectively lost purpose and therefore favour as a tool used by professional cabinetmakers (furniture makers not ply-box kitchens USA) and joiners. The