Thread: ""Just The Simple Bliss Of Planing""

Thanks Chook, what a great post. I love to go to the shed in my spare time, when there is no pressing house renovations required, and make jigs. I'll see one in a magazine or on the WEB and think "that may be useful" and I'll build it, try it, maybe modify it then put it with the others "just in case I may need it one day".

Thanks for the thread, I feel much better about myself now, I thought I had some sort of illness when it came to generating shavings

Originally Posted by shanesmith80

I often just go out into the garage and find a piece of wood and start planing. Sometimes try and plane 2 edges square, sometimes just make shavings.
My wife looks at me like I'm weird as well. Surely its not us thats weird..

My missus is one of the ones who buys expensive fabric by the metre, cuts it into small pieces, mixed the pieces with similar of different colours etc, then sews it back together again and calls it art. Takes all types I s'pose, but I suggest that you not mention such habits to your wife to justify your habits, it may mean you can never afford to buy a nice tool, machine, or piece of wood if she calls your bluff and takes up quilting. Mine runs up about $12-15K pa on craft supplies cos she has to build her stash.

I like the look on the missus face when walk back inside to "show off" my perfect shaving that I have just spent the morning achieving as I'm "working" in the shed instead of doing the lawn edges, I don't think gets it...........

Happiness is getting full length 2-thou shavings from a type 11 Stanley 7 fitted with an 1895 Stanley 386 fence when jointing 3m long red gum planks.

Satisfaction is getting full length 3-thou shavings from a P.O.S Anant 7 when roughing them out first!

Some of us are so proud of our shavings we keep them in a box.
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I had some sanding to do this arvo, I ended up just turning perfectly good wood to shavings..........