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

Yes, shavings will sometimes cling to me. I don’t think about it much any more and just scoop shavings from the mouth and flick them aside, often on each (return) stroke. With a good flick, they just fall to the floor, but sometimes one will be especially clingy, especially it seems with light shavings. I’d develop your flick rather than anything else. My electrostatics is a bit withered, but if you develop a static charge on the shaving, which seems somewhere between reasonable and unavoidable, I think it’s going to cling no matter what. Scoop and flick. Scoop and flick.