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Set you plane for a very fine shaving, almost no shaving, Don't take full length shavings, just short ones over the high spots. The shaving should get longer and wider with each shaving until the high spot is gone. Lay the plane on the wood gently, and start pushing the plane forward as you...

A simple pleasure to watch

Of course if you had a handplane with the adjustable throat like on a supersurfacer it would have more influence on tearout.

I really don't use the really tight throat opening, I use the chipbreaker to control tearout, I have the throat opening fairly close, but have no way to accurately and easily adjust it on the fly. So I set it open a bit so its not compressing the shaving. Below are the setup instruction for...

There is a sweet spot, a perfect relationship between the thickness of the shaving and the chipbreaker, and to some extent the throat opening. Theoretically you should be able to remove the chipbreaker and set the throat opening to prevent tearout. You would have to have extremely accurate...

I am sure that my plane has hit the floor more than once. This is a supersurfacer that I modified about 10 or more years ago. it shows the turntable and blade block etc and explains a bit about the operation. The surface that they produce and the efficiency of these is quite impressive, and...

A reasonably flat sole and file the angle the mouth for better clearance, low curve chipbreaker and a sharp blade, and your good to go.

Thanks, no they are laminated.

Hi Tom, I made the the video of the plane with zero relieve angle to prove a point, there are always many arguments over handplanes, with people giving "rules" and angles etc... one is about how much relieve angle you "need" so I was just showing that you shouldn't believe everything that you...

Just a little video I made some years back whilst playing with the blade relief angle, And phots of playing around with the throat opening. From the chipbreaker video playing with a Supersurfacer one of the double head supersurfacers that i rebuilt

I have been in Canada for 50 years also. I live just south of Ottawa, Ontario, so about 4 hours from Toronto, I was born and raised in the South of England, Folkestone, Kent, I was lucky enough to be there for the great music of the 60's, I got to see lots of great bands, Still love the music...

Hi Jim, and welcome from Canada.

I gave up on fox wedged early on, and used pegged tenons for future doors.

People with a plan B, haven't committed to plan A ! Alex doesn't have a plan B. My first entry door; late 70's

This about sums it up!

Frist of all, I never gave any opinion of Paul Sellers, I just recognized the description of him. Secondly as already has been stated he has been pushing the idea that machinery requires no skill or knowledge to use, and you simply push the wood into it and it does the job for you. This is...

What is amusing is how some people attempt to add content to the topic of discussion and others with the smug attitude set themselves up as above that and instead try to insult and belittle those in the discussion. So To all of you super smart arses, why don't you take a long look at...

I watched one of his videos, that was enough for me. The thing is there is apparently a desperate need for gurus in the world. It appears that people want to remain like children with some father figure giving them all of the answers so they don't have to figure it out for themselves. and as...

Your 90 year old grandmother or your sixteen your old kid can go buy a tablesaw, or a chainsaw or sharp knife of any number of dangerous items. I bought a 500cc scrambler motorcycle in 1974, a bit of a step up from my bicycle. All I had to do was pay for it. I bought it after watching a...

Who's a funny moose? Do I detect a hint of sarcasm in your reply? If everything has been done, what is all of the fuss about? Let people post their videos, let whatever happens happen. If the British government has an official woodworking, Youtube channel showing how to use all of the...