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What Is A Woodworking Hand

Plane?

What Is A Woodworking Hand

What is a compass, or circular, plane?
Plane Used For?

A Brief History Of Woodworking Shop for Woodworking Hand Planes

Hand Planes

What Are The Parts Of A Standard

Metal Hand Plane?
What it’s used for
How Does A Plane Work?

What Are The Different Types Of

Woodworking Hand Planes? Curves and circles
Which Type Of Plane Should You
Choose? Compass, or circular, planes are for planing convex (external) and
What Are Metal Hand Planes Made concave (internal) curves in wood.
Of?

What Are Wooden Hand Planes

Made Of? Metal versions can handle any anything from a slight curve in the arm or

What Are Plane Kits And leg of a chair to a complete circle such as a round table top.
Carpenter's Kits?

What's In A Number? The Stanley Metal version are more restricted is use – see Characteristics below
Model Numbering System

Planes And Grains

The workpiece is first sawn roughly into the curved or circular shape.
What Are Bevel Up And Bevel
Down Planes? The curve of the plane’s sole is then adjusted – by turning a large nut or
What Is The Ideal Shape For Plane wheel – to match the curve.
Irons?

What Is The Perfect Pitch For Plane Go with the grain

Irons?

How Is Wood Prepared? It’s important to reposition the workpiece as necessary to ensure planing
Possible Problems When Using A goes with the grain at all times to avoid tear-out of the wood fibres.
Plane And How To Solve Them

What Is A Scrub Plane?

What Are The Parts Of A Metal Characteristics

Scrub Plane?

What Are The Parts Of A Wooden Uniquely, the sole of the metal compass plane is made from a flexible steel
Hand Plane?
sheet that can be adjusted steplessly to form varying, uniform, concave
What Are The Parts Of A Wooden
Scrub Plane?
and convex shapes.

How To Choose A Scrub Plane?

How To Set Up A Metal Scrub

Steplessly means continuous adjustment without any predetermined, set
Plane? positions.
How To Set Up A Wooden Scrub
Plane?

How To Sharpen And Adjust A Limited scope of wooden compass planes

Scrub Plane Iron?

How To Use A Scrub Plane? Wooden compass planes – available second-hand only except for ones
What Is A Bench Plane? made by a very few specialist plane makers – are limited in scope
What Are The Parts Of A Metal compared to metal ones. Wonkee has only been able to find ones that
Bench Plane? have convex soles, so they can only be used to cut relatively shallow,
What Are The Parts Of A Low Angle concave curves.
Bench Plane?

What Are The Parts Of A Wooden

Bench Plane? Available as old, used tools on some internet sites, they can be useful for

What Is A Norris Style Adjuster? hollowing out chair seats and shallow bowls.

What Is Backlash?

What Is A Jack Plane?

What Is A Fore Plane?

What Is A Jointer Plane?

What Is A Smoothing Plane?

 How To Choose A Bench Plane? Some wooden compass planes have adjustable blocks on the toe that can
How To Set Up A Metal Bench be adjusted up and down, effectively altering the radius (the degree of
Plane?
curvature) at which the plane cuts.
How To Set Up A Wooden Bench
Plane?

How To Flatten And Sharpen Bench

Lowering the adjustable block has the effect of tilting the plane upwards at
Plane Irons? the front end, which increases the radius. Moving the block upwards
How To Use A Bench Plane To reduces the radius until the block’s bottom edge is in line with the sole, at
Plane Edges Along The Grain?
which point the plane is set to its smallest possible radius.
How To Use A Bench Plane To
Plane End Grain?

What Is A Block Plane? Number

What Are The Parts Of A Metal
Block Plane?
Although they skipped some numbers, Stanley didn’t dodge the number 13
What Are The Parts Of A Wooden
Block Plane? when it came to allocating plane model numbers.

How To Choose A Block Plane?

How To Set Up A Metal Block The No. 13 is a compass plane made between 1871 and 1909, and is not
Plane? easy to find these days. You might have better luck seeking out later
How To Set Up A Wooden Block models such as the No. 20 and No. 113, or a new plane based on one of
Plane?
those designs.
How To Use A Block Plane?

What Are Japanese Woodworking

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What Are Specialised Woodworking
Planes?

What Is A Rebate Or Rabbet Plane?

What Is A Shoulder Plane?

What Is A Bullnose Plane?

What Is A Grooving Or Plough

Plane?

What Is A Moulding Plane?

What Is A Combination Plane?

What Is A Router Plane?

What Is A Chisel Plane?

What Is A Compass Or Circular

Plane?

What Are Finger And Palm Planes?

What Is A Shooting Board Plane?

How To Choose Specialised

Planes?

How To Flatten The Soles Of Metal

And Wooden Planes?

Can You Get Spare Parts For

Woodworking Hand Planes?

What Are The Different Types Of

Woodworking Hand Plane Spare
Parts?

Woodworking Hand Planes

Maintenance And Care

Glossary Woodworking Hand

Planes

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