Hand planing large boards
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Now my edges come off quite square after i have hand planed them, i ask you: what tecnique do you use when you hand plane large ( 2 foot) boards? I found my self to be off-balance when i’m hand planing the farthest portion mf my board. It’s diffucult for me to plane straight when my hand plane is located so further from my body. Things end up large board faces are not so flat and square..
How could i obtain better results? At the moment i use to check frequently my work and i apply small corrections
15 February 2017 at 12:50 pm #309225Mr P Sellers’ video series on stock preparation has been of great value to me.
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16 February 2017 at 8:44 pm #309268You have to experiment with various clamping methods and positions to make sure, that you can reach all areas with ease. Otherwise, controlling the plane will be difficult. Consequently, you will need to attack small areas and use a straight edge and winding sticks very often.
And there are various techniques to use the plane. You can push it, pull it or even move it from right to left (right handed). If you practise, you might be able to switch hands too. I am not sure, if Paul Sellers shows left-handed planing, but he does show everything else, so watch him planing in various videos.
Dieter
‘At the moment i use to check frequently my work and i apply small corrections’
My advice would be to keep doing this very frequently at first. It probably feels annoying as it feels like the checking/correcting mistakes isn’t part of the “real” work like the actual planing is, but it’s an important part of the learning process – how else will you know when you did it right or wrong with the variety of things that could be happening in each circumstance?
With a bit of practise you will gradually or suddenly get to a place where when you check the results, it is as you hope (or at least expect) most of the time. At that point you can reduce the checking frequency and your efficiency, speed and quality will both increase doubly. Less checking and less time correcting mistakes!
What I do to get flat wide boards is to turn the board around. I take my bench dogs/plane stop and put it on the other side of the bench and just change hands with the plane.
Learning to use your off hand is an invaluable tool I learned. It opens up a lot of things.
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