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Using Hand Planes - Understanding and Usage
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About this event
This is a hands-on session where participants will understand and utilize woodworking hand planes to flatten and finish a simulated tabletop.
Goal: Know when to use what plane and how to prepare for a finish of a simulated tabletop.
Reference: Garrett Hack "Hand Planes"
Outline:
• Parts of a plane
• Identifying old Stanley planes
• Bedrock vs. Bailey vs. Veritas low-angle planes
• Bevel up vs. bevel down
• Flattening the sole
• Truing other plane parts (frog, cap, mouth, side, adjuster, etc.)
• New planes vs. older planes, when to give up!
• Smoother, Jointer, Jack, Block overview
• Cutting end grain and the shooting board
• Block planes, their traditional applications
• Smoothing plane and how they are set up to provide a great surface
• Scraper plane, scraper blade, when the smoother fails
• Difficult wood management, grain direction, and the dreaded "tear out."
• Relationship between cutting angle, mouth opening, iron sharpness, cutting iron support, and the material being cut.
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