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Hello, I have been working on my first workbench and I want to make it look good as I will have to look at it for many years to come. I have planed all the wood for the base almost to the finished width and thickness. Now I plane boards to the finished thickness with my hand planes, then cut...

As I have only a thickness planer, so I need to use hand planes at least for a reference face and edge. or face + two edges, if the board is more than 160 mm wide and I cannot stand it on its edge to run through a thickness planer.

I went to the shop and tried to plane a face of one board. Interestingly, it cut just fine without any gliding over the surface. I did not even need to sharpen once during the face planing. It is not a top finished surface and I could have flattened it better, If I had more time today, but it is...

Hi, tried Stanley blades in the States and in the UK and didn’t notice any difference, both worked fine - interesting, will keep an eye on it. Welcome, just say you may want to remove the end of your postcode on your badge, Ian Hi Cabinetman, I have two old and two new blades. Old blades are...

My main bevel should be ok, as it is hollow ground on the bench grinder, but my microbevel might be too steep at some sharpenings, indeed. I no longer have a guide as it was severly out of square, so I threw it off. I will try to use 4k stone instead of the agate stone to see if I can get...

I use scrub plane, jack plane and smoothing plane. They are 32 mm boards (10 or 20 cm wide) with various lenghts (0,5 - 2,5 m), as I had to cut off spoiled wood or wood with some broken screws as I used screws on elevated garden bed and some of them just snapped their heads off while...

I have a Pinie wooden scrub plane, similar to ECE, but less expensive. I have been using it on the oak to remove initial dirt and stones. But the problem is that once I get the board almost flat and I need to make minor adjustment, the blade just will not cut and just slides on the surface. If I...

Please ask @David C . He is the best to explain this topic.

My old blades are slightly bent, they are not perfectly straight. That is why ruler trick helped me avoid a lot of flattening.

Hello David, thank you for your advice. Yes it is an agate stone. I am waiting for my loupe, but they have send me a wrong one (3-8 x only), so I need to wait for a replacement (30-60x). I think that the loupe and good light will help me the most. I can only feel the burr on the edge with the...

It is the bevel that is created by the ruler trick on the flat side of the blade.

Maybe I misunderstood you, but I was thinking that you are talking about lowering the honing angle on the green stone, not having the stones of equal height. What benefit would give me having the stones of equal height with the green stone?

Thank you Tom for your advice. I just got it from Rob Cosman to go a few degrees more for the microbevel on the polishing stone. However, I would try to get maximum from my current setup just by increasing my skill points,before buying 140 USD 16000 grit Shapton stone as he has.

I brushed away most of the particles, but that might be the case, as I can never get it perfectly clean. But nevertheless,, improving my sharpening technique will help me in other endeavours too.

I do the same, as it takes only a few seconds. But I also wanted to learn to sharpen on stones, as it is a nice skill to have.

I will try to skip the coarse and medium stone next time I sharpen the edge. I always though that getting the burr on the finer stone will automatically refine the edge to the fineness of the particular stone. But it might be the case that I get the burr quicker and the edge has some micro...

Jacob, I do sharpen knives with a steel, but I have read that from time to time, it is good to sharpen on the stones too, because sharpening on the steel just realigns the edge (might be a myth though). In my terms, locking the wrists means to remove any rotational motion of the wrist joint...

We can also combine this thread with the question if it is safe to get vaccinated, to get even more explosive comments :)

Hello, I am now working on improving my sharpening system, as I can sharpening my plane blades to cut wood, but it is still not sharp enough to slice paper or cut all the hair from my forearm (it cuts some, but not all). I would not be bothered with it, but I have a lot of oak wood from an...

Thank you very much Tom for useful ideas for building my bench. Yesterday, I have tried to run through the thicknesser one of the boards that I have flattened one face and edge by hand. The board had dimensions 120x40x440 mm. I have first used the thickness planer on the rough opposite side...