Planes bought - now the tuning

[PeterSk]

A little bit of eBaying has seen me with a Hellestadt No.7 and a Stanley No 5 for the grand sum of £45, which seems rather good as they're both in good condition.

Now the tricky part, how do I go about getting them to plane nice and evenly? I've sharpened the blade in the 7, but I think that the blade holding bits aren't in line properly, as it will consistently plane an angle onto the wood.

So does anyone know of a good guide to planes for beginners? Google only seems to come up with restoration guides or guides that assume you know your way around planes already

Thanks

 

[GazPal]

The first things I'd recommend is for you to buy a copies of;

"The Handplane Book" by Garrett Hack

"Planecraft" by Hampton & Clifford

Both provide the information you seek and compliment one another pretty well. Where one may skim over certain detail, the other virtually completes it.

Other sources;

http://sawdustmaking.com/Hand%20Planes/hand_planes.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=Kv1zo9CAxt4&gl=US

Google "How to set up and use a hand plane/handplane" and you'll find a rake of information available to you. :wink:

 

[AndyT]

Those are good sources. I'll add Bugbear's intro, in case he's too modest to do so:

http://www.oocities.com/plybench/plane.html

 

[Paul Chapman]

Some good stuff on Jeff Gorman's site http://www.amgron.clara.net/

Cheers :wink:

Paul