In recent years we’ve seen small independent companies enter the market offering high-end woodworking tools, quite often handmade with a degree of craftsmanship that surpasses what most would expect from a quality tool.
Can you imagine a jointer plane costing over $9.000? Well… take a look at this 28″ steel and ebony torpedo and you’ll see why. This thing will almost plane boards on it’s own. Continue reading this post…
I’ve been playing with the idea of making a wooden plane for a while and decided to start with a small block plane to replace my vintage Millers Falls No. 57. The alternative would be to buy a Lie-Nielsen #60 1/2 but those little wonders are expensive….
I want it to be a low angle plane but making a wooden plane with a 12º bed is out of question, the body would be too thin to handle the strain, so I decided to take a different approach and instead of making a bevel up plane this will have the blade resting with the bevel down on a 37º bed. Continue reading this post…
While browsing some of the woodworking videos on YouTube I came across this one from Ron Hock showing how to make a handplane from kit. The video also shows how to sharpen the blade using the ruler trick often attributed to David Charlesworth. Continue reading this post…
More than 10 years ago Popular Mechanics published a very informative article on making a small wooden handplane which I’m very fond of.
I haven’t built mine but I keep revisiting this article over and over again: Hand Made Hand Plane. Continue reading this post…
