(For more high quality free woodworking videos go to: ) - In this video, learn about the most common, and popular, hand planes used by crafts people today. At first glance, the whole subject looks complicated, because there are dozens of major plane types and many different variations within each of...
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A "how to" guide on making a balsa wood airplane with a 24 inch wingspan for under $6.00!...
Watch as Frank Strazza shows you the ins and outs of using a hand plane, one of hand tool woodworking's basic tools. Part of the Heritage School of Woodworking's Basics of Joinery online course...
Wooden planes such as the one featured in this video really were the tools of the trade when hand skills were at the forefront. The design and features that can appear at first glance simple, evolved over many, many years creating a very purposeful too. Although these planes are good value they have...
For Get Woodworking week I wanted to cut through a lot of the stuff written about hand planes and make some sensible suggestions for where to start with hand planes that make sense for the large majority of beginning woodworkers. For more woodworking videos and blog posts check out my web site...
Watch more Learn Woodworking videos: Learn how to use a block plane from Makeville Studio in this Howcast woodworking video. Hand planes can be a useful to way of smoothing and squaring boards in the wood shop when you don't have access to a planer or jointer. And, so I thought it would be useful if...
Make a Wood Thumb Plane Original Plane Design by Mike Freda Free Plans: Music: "Chop Shop" by Jeff Wyatt Permssion granted by Jeff Wyatt Book: Wooden Planes by David G. Perch and Robert S. Lee...
Watch more Learn Woodworking videos: Learn how to use a smoothing plane from Makeville Studio in this Howcast woodworking video. The smoothing planes, the jointer, the jack plane, these have a few more parts and pieces in them, and it's useful to look at these, too, just to understand how they work....
An introduction to "Krenov-type" wood hand planes. Provides an overview of setting up the plane to take shavings and briefly illustrates smooth planing, edge-joining, and use of a shooting board to trim end-grain. For all the details checkout"Making and Mastering Wood Planes" by ...
Learn how to make beautifully flat and perfectly true wood from rough-sawn lumber. This video is referred to in The Family Handyman magazine, May 2011, Shop Rat, Flattening rough-sawn wood, on page 78...
Building a bevel-down wood-bodied smooth plane with a Norris-style blade adjustment mechanism Lee Valley offers a hardware kit so you can build your own smoothing plane. I picked up the kit with a PM-V11 steel blade. I wanted to use contrasting wood to jazz it up a little so I picked maple for the s...
Joshua Farnsworth talks about which hand plane you should buy first for traditional woodworking. The below link leads to his list of the basic set of hand tools that you'll need when getting started in traditional woodworking: See the list of hand tools: Subscribe to get my Videos & Articles in ...
Need a piece of wood thin and perfect? I will show you an effortless way to do this. I used a 2 by 12 inch piece of pine for my bottom platform in this video and a bit of walnut as the piece that I would plane. I used Tite Bond Glue (Original) as the glue, if you use a different glue then the dry ti...
In this video, Paul Sellers takes you through the steps necessary to prepare a wooden jack plane for use. To find out more about Paul Sellers and the projects he is involved with visit...
Americans are rare at this annual competition, but the three of us participated and had a wonderful time. The Japanese tool lovers welcomed us with open arms. Can't wait until next year...
In this series of videos I build a traditionally styled wooden jack plane using a Krenov type lamination method. In this part I show you the initial marking out that needs to be done and the cutting of the center block is done...
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Paul Akers, of The American Innovator broadcast, makes a display board for his wood planes collection. Paul uses a ton of FastCap's products for this project: Smart Cleat, PowerHead screws, Laserjamb, AB2 Laser, ProCarpenter Standard Story Pole Tape Measure, FatBoy Pencil, PowerMags, ProHold Magneti...
In this latest episode of Fine WOodworking magazine's video series Getting Started in Woodworking we go in depth on the subject of hand planes. Find out how they work and how to tune one up. Visit for more woodworking technique videos...
Full Article - Wood planers are very useful tools for sizing wood in your workshop and for ensuring your woods are uniform in thickness. In this video we have a quick look at how to get the best results from your planer. * Like me at Facebook: * Follow me on Twitter: * Join me on woodworkweb: * Conn...
Bill Anderson shows how to use an 18th Century style wooden jointer handplane to joint a board's edge for glue-up. This comes from the DVD "Building a Traditional 18th Century Jointer Plane with Bill Anderson" which you can purchase here: Subscribe to get my Videos & Articles in your e...
Learn how to understand planing operation for a power planer and get professional tips and advice from an expert carpenter on using tools for leveling, shaving and shaping wood in this free woodworking video. Expert: teacherjon Bio: Jon holds a Bachelors of Science in Education and Human Sciences de...
Basic tips on how to hand plane face side and face edge on your timber from Chris tribe of Chris Tribe Furniture, a course provider based in Ilkley, Yorkshire, England...
An esoteric discussion of some design items to think about if you're making your own planes (and not of the corny laminated type of planes)...
I have been given a set of old wooden planes. They were quite worn of and I restored the first one of them. This meant creating a new sole and refurbishing the blade. It's so nice to have an old abandoned tool working again. The body had a stylish 'R' on it and I guess it is the trademark of C.S. Re...
Follow me as I restore a Stanley #4 bench plane, and tune it up to take shavings of less than one thou'. The only cost being some abrasives, white and methylated spirits, paper towels, and two hours of my time. Tools required: a flat reference surface, screwdrivers, card scraper, and grinding/honing...
Plane wood using a router and a straight bit. Planning/Surfacing Burl or Curly wood can be a challenge, sometimes you can't use a planer. This very basic and simple jig allows me to plane wood with a router...
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Make your planer more effective at doing its main job?planing boards to thickness?and multiply its usefulness by putting it to work in ways you might never have considered before...
Wood carving hiker backpack nordic statue by cjsolberg on Etsy...
Smart construction. Beech sides sandwich a rosewood core that serves both as the frog and as the skate...
When I was little and we were moved into a house from our apartment, my dad asked me if there was anything I really would like in a house. I said I wanted to have an airplane swing. Dad, being quite the craftsman said he could make me one out of wood. Still waiting, dad! It's not too late!...