Fine what works and stick with it. Enter name to search for wish list. When the handle was attached Richard set up a narrow board of pine in woodworking planes lie nielsen english vice, ruined the edge of it and then gave me the plane. The other plane with a fairly large number of users was the wlodworking Low Angle Jack. Hi Helen. To better describe, the shoot is lower than the surface where the work piece and fence reside. The 51 will still work just fine in a home made shoot board, but in conjunction with the 52, it makes one heck of a woodworkjng.

I sat it on the wood and after a few strokes getting down the high spots I was planing lovely full shavings. Better than the shavings was the feeling of balance. The plane was straight and boxy it referenced itself and felt like it was doing the work for me. But it was perfect, no light. Further down the board the same story. I still love my smoother of course, but with a light weight jointer in the mix I really feel like I can progress with some real prepping of boards and getting things made, rather than simply making lots of lovely shavings.

Concepts which have led to the recent launch of her second business Winglewood News. There definitely seems to be two camps as regards plane weight. Quite often it is not about blaming the tools, but about finding the tools that work for you. If certain tools do not work for you, or you cannot efficiently get the tool to work the way you want, you try the next, and the next until you find the one that does.

Thanks Steve, I do feel very fortunate to have such a lot of different tools lying around to try, I imagine this being a great frustration to somebody new, getting in to woodworking. And there absolutely are tools out there that do not work as well as they should or do not work as well as other tools designed for the same task. Woodworking is a very personal journey. Often, the tools you use on that journey need to be very personal to you. These are the tools I have a connection with.

To me, having that connection matters. Thanks Ethan, you share your thoughts on that closely with Richard. You should see the looks he gets towards his Jack plane when that goes to a show, but he would never part with it.

Keep it up. I prefer a lighter wooden plane to a heavy iron one. Fine what works and stick with it. That works for me. That jointer just might be what I need for joining two plate halves together for my future guitars. Hello Helen It is nice to see that you are trying and experimenting with different types of planes.

Thanks very much for the reply…I knew there was a good reason!! You guys have a very interesting and entertaining site. I very much look forward to the next video. I have experienced the same thing where a certain tool just feels right in the hand and likewise works easier for me than other tools that were designed to do the same task. I am a firm believer that it is not about bells and whistles, looks, or cost that make a tool fit the hand and become your favorite.

Hard to explain but it is a real thing. I think the balance issue has a lot to do with the angle of the tote, but I may be wrong. The result is a more natural wrist angle while guiding it. I bet it has a shallower angle. Good job. One tiny degree of canting off of parallel gets successively more off of square with each successive stroke of the plane and instead one ends up with half of a French cleat rather than square jointed surface.

It may come as a surprise, but a well tuned hand plane with a sharp edge can produce a straighter edge, a stronger joint or smoother surface than power tools are capable of. Browse our Hand Planes by plane maker's category or hand plane type. Norton Publishing Wall Lenk Co. Fine Hand Planes. Lie-Nielsen Hand Planes. Stanley Hand Planes. Clifton Hand Planes. Kunz Hand Planes.

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