Making a Wooden Plane: Hardening
Paul walks us through the process of hardening and tempering an iron for a small plane. He then heads to the workshop to clean up and sharpen the blade and finishes off by showing how to adjust the plane.
Paul walks us through the process of hardening and tempering an iron for a small plane. He then heads to the workshop to clean up and sharpen the blade and finishes off by showing how to adjust the plane.
In this final episode, Paul finishes refining the shape of the plane, and then cuts and shapes the iron to the same radius as the bottom of the plane. He then finishes of by sharpening the iron. The hardening process will be in a separate free video.
In this episode, Paul shows us how to shape the bottom of the plane to certain radii, and shape the wedge to allow the shavings to escape from the mouth of the plane.
In this episode, Paul talks us through how to lay out all the parts of the plane. He goes on to cut the different sections of the body and make the wedge and wedge housing. This episode concludes with the gluing up of the plane body in preparation for the shaping.
In this introduction, Paul shows a few of the types of plane that you can make by following this series, and walks you through a few ways of getting your stock prepared.
In this video Joseph shows how to sharpen a gouge using all the same equipment as sharpening a straight-edged chisel. Gouges are great for cutting out curved areas such as wooden spoons or chair seats.
In this video, Paul shows how to make your own handles that can be used for drawer pulls. They are fixed into the front of the drawer using a tenon and then wedged and glued to hold them firm. This design and the techniques can be adjusted to make all types of handles.
In this video Paul shows how to sharpen a auger bit. A brace and bit is a fantastic tool set which will allow you to bore holes more easily and quickly than you might imagine. However, unless it it sharp it will never perform properly.
In this episode Joseph shows how to sharpen two kinds of card scraper, a normal straight sided one and one with a curved end. Scrapers are great tools for working with difficult grain or smoothing curved shapes that are hard to plane.
Cup? Twist? Bow? These are things that happen to boards when they dry. There is nothing wrong with boards that have these traits but it is necessary to get rid of them before you start working them into projects.