How to plane properly - read the one true way

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AndyT

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This is from Chris Schwarz's blog.

http://blog.lostartpress.com/2012/03/08/planing-a-veritable-donkeys-bridge/

It introduces the text of an 1892 magazine article on how to sharpen your plane and true up a piece of wood. The author knows the one right way to do it, but his apprentice does not!

I don't think he's still around, and still posting on forums like this one, but it might be so...
 
The originator of the 1892 article still posts occasionally on sawmill creek's neander forum and is as crabby as ever. :wink:
 
An excellent read !

No mention of how the wretched lad was supposed to get the edges square?

David C
 
David C":3sckhfa2 said:
An excellent read !

No mention of how the wretched lad was supposed to get the edges square?

David C

Having dealt with flattening a panel, planing square to face is probably in next week's issue :D
 
AndyT":23yhmnmt said:
This is from Chris Schwarz's blog.

http://blog.lostartpress.com/2012/03/08/planing-a-veritable-donkeys-bridge/

It introduces the text of an 1892 magazine article on how to sharpen your plane and true up a piece of wood. The author knows the one right way to do it, but his apprentice does not!

I don't think he's still around, and still posting on forums like this one, but it might be so...

That's unusually detailed and helpful for the period.

A bit more help than the legendary "if your edge is blunt, rub the tool on the whetstone until it is sharp..."

BugBear
 

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