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Good afternoon everyone, I am hoping your advice and expertise might be able to help me. I’m new to all of this and have just started on my first project, a workbench in Spruce.
I planed my top pieces and then laminated them, now I have come to planing the top, removing the glue that squeezed out etc, unfortunately, however, it now seems my plane is marking my wood, yet it did not do that when I planed the sides before lamination. To be honest I’m not sure why it is happening, I have re-sharpened my plane. You can see there are horizontal and vertical lines, the small horizontal lines are from me not lifting the plane, something I am learning.
Can anyone provide any advice? I have included a few pictures.
Thanks
- This topic was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Alexander.
- This topic was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Alexander.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.21 October 2017 at 3:36 pm #338220By the look of the timber, you are planing it appears the plane blade is set to hard. Try taking shallower cuts. Those knots can really mess up the adjustment of the plane iron if it isn’t cinched down hard. Your laminations look beautiful.
In addition to what Peter said, look closely at how you sharpened your iron. In the photo, it looks like you have used Paul’s approach of knocking the corners off of the iron rather than making a gentle camber that spans the whole blade. In your photo, it looks like the knocked off corner meets the flat portion of the blade with a hard corner. Feathering that transition into a curve rather than a corner may help.
To be clear: You can still stay with Paul’s flat blade approach and just feather the outside portions. I’m not saying you must camber all the way across the blade, although if I were to make a dedicated plane that was used for nothing but smoothing, I’d camber all the way across, but very gently.
21 October 2017 at 8:46 pm #338332It is hard to see in the picture but it does not appear to be even with the front of the Mouth. Make sure it protudes evenly
21 October 2017 at 9:53 pm #338359Some of those marks don’t look like plane tracks, rather like dents in the wood. In a soft wood the edge of your plane sole may be somewhat sharp and occasionally rolling and denting the wood. I have gently stoned the edges of some of my newer planes to prevent this.
Thank you everyone for the comments and help, I read through them and spent some time today going over my plane and resharpening. I think that was the issue, the way I had sharpened it. I followed Paul’s video again and it seems to have resolved itself, I think I might have been a little harsh on taking the corners off first time.
Now on to the legs!
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