Today I leave to Finland, and this is the first of the automatically posted posts. The ones for the next few weeks will have been written ahead of time. Hopefully this works.
Another garage sale post... this time featuring my two new Stanley planes. One is a block plane of sorts, the other is a No. 4 (smoothing) plane. The other one that I have is a No. 5 1/2 jack plane. I don't count the junky Buck Bros plane, it hardly works.
Anyways, I took them apart and cleaned them. There is still a bit to do, but at least they are clean now. I put the brass tote and knob screws in the drill press and sanded and polished the nicks out. The irons still need to be sharpened, I think I'll wait and get a extra coarse diamond stone, my other stuff doesn't quite cut it (well it goes really slowly, I spent probably an hour on one blade and it still wasn't done).
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| All the parts ready for cleaning |
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| After cleaning and reassembly. The two rods are from the 5 1/2 jack plane, which was already cleaned. I just took out the brass screws and shined them up. :-) |
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| The adjustment screw and frog adjustment screw. |
What's left to do: Sharpen the irons, flatten the soles, and maybe refinish the tote and knob on the No. 4.
And what in the world do you do with those?? - AJ
ReplyDeleteThey are used for wood carving/surfacing. They are called planes because they "plane the wood" or something along that line (they basically shave off wood like a cheese cutter). If I am thinking correctly, there are different types of planes, each with a different effect.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link about hand planes.
ReplyDeletehttp://sawdustmaking.com/Hand%20Planes/hand_planes.htm