Hand Tool Live: Eliminating Plane Tracks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Plane tracks aren't evil, but you will want to know how to remove them on a show surface. In this session I will show how I set up my planes but also where and when plane tracks can be a problem or can be left alone.
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Shannon, I’ve been listening to you on Wood Talk for many years now but never really consumed very much of your content because I was primarily a power tool user and then took a seven year hiatus from woodworking just as I was starting to get into hand tools. I’ve just discovered these evening chats that you do and find them incredibly informative and really appreciate it the time and effort that you put into the instruction.
I got rid of the plane tracks on my Lie Neilson 4 1/2 smoother and 5 1/2 jack plane by just doing a slight rounding over of the corners of the irons. Takes just a few minutes on a1000 grit diamond stone. I've never been into making a camber on any of my planes. 75% of my work are Chippendale and Shaker reproductions using syp and a cambered blade seems not to work to well on the soft and hard grains. An iron with just rounded over ends has made for some really pretty finishes on the syp. I don't use sawmill lumber, I use premium kiln dried so I'm usually one up on how I have to plane a board and panel. You're an encyclopedia for woodworkers, especially for hand tool beginners.
Advances in technology leaving a man with a piece of metal and wood waiting
Man, give the lady some time to finish the song or at least end the verse. :P
Hi Shannon, how do you apply a camber to the veritas BU smoother you showed?
the exact same way I showed in the video. No difference other than you will find you can make the curve even a bit less pronounced and get a slightly wider shaving because of the lower angle of presentation. You just have to play with the blade a bit on the stone to figure out how many passes to take at the corners. Start small and add to it to dial in the right amount.
Nine minutes in and you've told us how to me plane tracks but not how to eliminate them.
I'm building suspense
Dang, havent seen your newest videos --- looking great man, keep up whatever you're doing.
Hello, please what is that song in your intro? Thank you very much :)
Love your videos. I’m a rookie and this is wonderful. I just restored 4 planes. My 5 1/2 smooths an edge so perfectly. My #4 not as much. Is it set up? Or weight and length of 5
1/2 on edge? Longer plane acts more like jointer?
How long did it take you to break in your DMT extra extra fine stone so that it became a polishing stone? I picked one up a couple of months ago and have found that it does not really polish the bevel as much as grind it. I could never go straight from that stone to the wood without about 60 to 80 strokes on my strop charged with green compound first. I’ve put quite a bit of effort into breaking it in by flattening a chisel back multiple times and using it to flatten my coarse water stone several times as well. I even took it over to my powered jointer where the bed had developed some rust while it was in storage and basically used it to sand away all the rust on my jointer bed but it still leaves nowhere near as fine an edge as even my 4000 grit Waterstone much less my 8000 grit. I do also have a coarse DMT stone that I’ve had for 10 or 12 years now and I do remember that it changed drastically over the course of the first year or two of ownership. Am I just being impatient expecting the extra extra fine to be the final stage before stropping without breaking it in for a couple of years first?
It certainly didn't take more than a few days. But keep in mind the "polish" you get from diamonds will never be the same as water stones. It is nearly impossible I have found to get a mirror polish from diamonds but that is also not a sign of sharpness. I strop everything after my stones and when I made the switch from water stones I found I needed to adjust from what I was used to seeing from those stones but in no way am I getting less durable edges today than when I was using water stones exclusively.
Aloha, yes indeed , if our piece of work is ' out of sight' , there is no real reason to overly worry or work ourselves at hand planing.
On a different subject, what's going on 'health wise '? Are you Ok? I ask because you look so much lighter in weight. Hope your just on a safe health cycle since it shows. Mahalo from Oahu!
I lost more than 100 lbs a few years ago so welcome back to my channel. All is well, just got tired of being out of shape and got back into cycling and got back on track.