Reply To: My #4 Stanley Bailey Plane Builds Up Static

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Larry Geib
12 February 2019 at 12:35 am #554992

Stopping it is easy. Oil or very lightly mist the strop and touch the plane to electrical ground (earth) before you use it.

Also, the finer shavings you are getting now might be dryer.

Benjamin Franklin experimented with static electricity by rubbing objects on leather. Glass on leather and amber on cloth were both used in a machine he invented to create high voltage charges. If you are wearing rubber soled shoes or standing on a rubber mat you could be a capacitor.

Do your totes on the #4 have a finish the others don’t?