How I love squaring and planing stock to size
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It was a bit of a learning curve for me as well but I finally got it and enjoy seeing those fluffy shavings. Also I built my Paul Sellers style bench using nothing but my #4 for everything. It took a little while but finally succeeded and got a little bit of cardio to boot.
Steve
I’m building a bench at the moment, and finding the squaring difficult. I don’t think I’ve managed to produce a single truly square piece of wood yet. I’m just doing the best I can and hoping it all hangs together well enough not to cause problems.
I’m having the same issue I think someone mentioned above, ie, one side of the board consistently ‘falls away’ towards its edge. Takes some considerable work to correct. I’m wondering if poor lateral adjustment of the blade has anything to do with it. If so, putting a camber in the blade would help.
By comparison, the dovetails I had a go at the other day were a breeze.
By chance did you use a marking gauge to plane your thicknessing to? Istruggled with it at the beginning but then the light came on. I have all the power tools but prefer to use hand tools as long as I can and am able.
Steve