How do you lay your plane to rest?

[Anonymous]

I've got a plane kicking around somewhere - I use it for sharpening pencils. It doesn't seem to matter how I put it down.

 

[Anonymous]

I can toss mine into my toolbox from about 10ft, even further if i'm in a hurry :lol: :lol:

 

[David C]

On it's sole, but toe or heel on a sheet of paper, pile of shavings, pencil lath, vinyl strip or whatever.

The sideways perversion was perpetuated by all?? school woodwork teachers some time during the last century.

With metal planes there is a severe risk of knocking the blade out of lateral adjustment, less so with wooden planes. Plus the risk of blade/ knuckle damage. Maybe on site workers might have a different view, concrete etc

I was always amazed and irritated by persons who took the liberty of readjusting my planes, on my bench, at shows. Cheek......

Apparantly a Japanese craftsman would be mortally offended if you felt the sharpness of his chisels. Sort of implied that they might not be perfect!

David Charlesworth

 

[Paul Chapman]

school woodwork teachers some time during the last century.

At school in the 1950s I remember my woodwork teacher drumming into me (probably with a piece of wood :shock: ) to always put the plane down on its side. Nowadays I do it because if you put it blade-down and then knock the plane, you can take a chunk out of your bench top - but perhaps other people's blades aren't sharp enough to do that :lol:

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Anonymous]

I dont have a problem with putting the plane flat down, seems fussy placing it on it's side, and me being me I would take a few thou off of my knuckles I mean I cut myself with a wing on the bit out of my brace yesterday :roll: when I was removing some knot resin from the lead screw thread; beautiful clean arc on my finger end like a little smiley mouth.

I honestly cant see how placing the plane straight onto the bench is going to damage the edge any more than a couple of passes over a board is going to :roll: Unless you smash it down from a great height and theres grit/metal filings/carbide dust liberally sprinkled on the bench top :lol: :lol:

 

[woodbloke]

When I was teaching, kids were always instructed to put planes on their sides, simply to preserve the state of the bench tops as they got enough of a beating from the little horrors without any extra damage from a carelessly twiddled adjustment knob or lever on a plane. I wasn't concerned with the state of the cutter or wether the little dears inflicted some more damage to themselves, it was really the bench tops that mattered. In teaching for 20 years, I never came across a pupil who cut him or herself from a plane blade no matter how it was put on the bench. The worst culprits were chisels but even better were Stanley knives - absolutely lethal in the hands of an eleven year old unless the fear of God had been drilled in before use - Rob

 

[Paul Chapman]

to preserve the state of the bench tops as they got enough of a beating from the little horrors

In my class at school there was this 'orrible little oik called Hindshaw. One day old Gubby, the woodwork teacher, saw him carving something into the bench top with a chisel. Quick as a flash, Gubby picked up this lump of wood and hurled it at Hindshaw :shock: :shock: Equally quick, Hindshaw took flight :shock: :shock: It was just like a cartoon on the television, with Hindshaw legging it down the woodwork shop, hotly pursued by a lump of wood :shock: :shock:

Ah, the good old days :wink:

Cheers,

Paul

 

[Anonymous]

in our woody classes, one of us would upset the teacher by dropping the chisel box or something similar, whilst another one of us horrors sneaked into his office and pinched his ciggies :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[dennyk]

I put mine in a plane glove, when in storage

 

[LyNx]

I can toss mine into my toolbox from about 10ft, even further if i'm in a hurry

hehe, i just did that to my veritas BUJ. it's a tool at the end of the day, shaping timber is it's primary objective, not sitting pretty on the side.

 

[engineer one]

interesting to note david charlesworth's comments, and i wonder???

since i believe that david and some others recommend re-honing the
plane blade either every evening after use, or in the morning before
use, then surely it only matters in the interim, whilst you are using all the
tools :twisted:

seems from my recent experience where ever i put anything it is
either never there when i want it, or in the way when i don't
and i get a nudge or a cut.

i was taught that the best thing was to leave the tail on a rag which had
some oil/wax on it, and which was carefully folded to raise the tail enough.

but then i am only a tryer :lol: :lol:

but my planes are sharp

paul :wink:

 

[David C]

Paul,

I don'y think I have made a reccomendation of when to sharpen, and certainly don't have the discipline to do it after use.

When starting a critical job I sharpen first and then as required.

My students seem to expect every plane in the cupboard to be perfectly sharp, but I tell them they are all blunt! They may not be of course depending on how much work they did last time.

best wishes,
David

 

[woodbloke]

Paul Chapman wrote:

lump of wood and hurled it at Hindshaw

In these unfortunate days though Paul, you couldn't even flick a lump of chalk the size of your little finger nail at them without the little precious things yelling 'that's an assault...an I'm gona dooooo you!'. Such is the teaching game nowadays..wild horses and all the T in China wouldn't get me back into that arena (and I use the term correctly) now - Rob

 

[bugbear]

When I was teaching... In teaching for 20 years, I never came across a pupil who cut him or herself from a plane blade no matter how it was put on the bench.

Before anyone get complacent, I've fairly sure this is true of bench planes.

It is NOT true of rebate/shoulder planes with wide mouths; the corner of that blade can cut you quite nicely (I'm told :wink: )

BugBear

 

[engineer one]

whoops david c i thought that was the implication of your sharpening
method, but am happy to be put right :lol:

paul :wink:

 

[woodbloke]

Bugbear - true enough, the planes in use in the school workshop were No4 and 5's and I do believe we had a No7, but no rebate or shoulder planes - Rob

 

[ColG]

dare I say it ????............in a coffin!!!!!

and then get me Bosch out!!!!!

Byeeeee

 

[Anonymous]

dare I say it ????............in a coffin!!!!!

I wondered when that was coming :lol: :lol: