Category: Hand Plane How-tos

Mitre plane restoration – By RS Woodworks Part 3

Mitre plane restoration – By RS Woodworks Part 3         <–Back to Part 1     <–Part 2 I’ve been very busy with work and other projects and […]

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Cleaning the small pesky Frog Washers -By Tom Strader

By Tom Strader Cleaning the small pesky Frog Washers. Find a #1 phillips screw driver and place the washer about half way down the shaft. […]

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Stanley #45/55 Spur Cleaning and Sharpening By Tom Strader

By Tom Strader Stanley 45/55 Spur Cleaning and Sharpening.I recently received a Stanley 45 with a small envelope containing a slightly rusty Spur. How to […]

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Mitre Plane Restoration By RS Woodworks Part 2

Authored By:  – RS Woodworks <–Back to Part 1     Part 3 –> So now that the plane is cleaned, and the sole and right […]

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Mitre Plane Restoration By RS Woodworks Part 1

Authored By:  – RS Woodworks Part 2 –>   Part 3 –> With having finished my shooting board, I decided to restore this mitreplane to use […]

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A “Sargent made Dunlap”–Chip Breakers-Cutters and Hock

This Dunlap #408 came to me in a lot of other planes, so being a bit of a Sargent fanatic, I decided to see what […]

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Plane Makers Float Review

Plane Makers Float Review By Darren Young from the Willow Wood Shop Plane Makers Floats I have been meaning to write this review for quite some […]

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JayT’s Building the Infill Shooting Plane

Author: Jay T I built a couple of what came to be called Transitional Infill Shooting Planes. A few people asked for a blog, but […]

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Mixtures for wood working tasks

[responsivetable] Brett Cordell posted this on the Facebook group “Unplugged Woodworkers”. Although not completely related to tools, I often use similar formulas to finish wood […]

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Can you save that Cutter – Part 2

Its well known I like to save as much of the original plane as I can. If you remember my first part CAN YOU SAVE […]

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