Bugger the electric planer

OK I was once addicted to using powertools for everything just because I thought it was quicker and easier well I have learnt that it can sometimes be the opposite when I did use the electric planer timber came out looking like weather boards (gently sloping one direction) or took too much wood off last weekend I bought my first hand plane a fuller #4 I love that plane a week later I also now have a secondhand stanley 12-205L handyman series plane but that is not all I currently have a bid on a stanley no71 router plane as a restoration project (if I win the auction that is) and have put my electric planer up for sale as I am enjoying having some sort of control over what is happening plus it is more enjoyable being able to work on my projects at night without worrying if my neighbours are about to call noise control while planing some wood lol. pics to come

This is very sad, you have caught the disease there is no vaccination and no cure

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Originally Posted by China

This is very sad, you have caught the disease there is no vaccination and no cure

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and I do not wish to be cured hand planes are awesome.

I'm a turner, but I have a large drawer full of planes, from No 3 to No 8, several block planes and assorted "specialty" planes, No 71, No 55 etc.

A freshly sharpened plane on timber is joy.

Also you can have a relaxing beverage while honing the plane blade:;

This is a very serious condition with almost no cure. You’ll tell yourself “I’ll stop when I get to 10” and wonder how you ended up with 50 in no time at all. Your increasing interest between US Stanley “types” will be matched only by your wife’s increasing interest in Stanley, the FWB type.

The only disease more socially debilitating is “Warranted Disston-Simmondsitus”.

Here are the planes i have got so far, the fuller no4 is the one missing the blade as i am taking time out from trueing up its blade and been going on it for a good couple of hours on the oil stone probably one of the worst factory sharpens i have put up with it was much worse at the start than the pic shows lol. The stanley 12-205 is next to it and is in good nick for a 19 year old planehttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...16e111c0df.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...53a5f036d9.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4ddb891dba.jpg

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60# sandpaper tacked to the bench is quicker.

I'll attach a pic of the bulk of my planes.

The No71 router plane is with my router bits . . . it makes sense to me and the Veritas Low Angle Block plane is in my tool bag, with a 10mm Pfeil bench chisel. They are my goto tools at the woodclub.

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60# sandpaper tacked to the bench is quicker.

I'll attach a pic of the bulk of my planes.

The No71 router plane is with my router bits . . . it makes sense to me and the Veritas Low Angle Block plane is in my tool bag, with a 10mm Pfeil bench chisel. They are my goto tools at the woodclub.

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Well the beer fridge was right next to where i was working so that helped things along the fuller is back together now and just finished some test cuts to set up the blade depth pretty happy with the result and the Stanley sharpening kit i picked up on the way home today. Next time i will try the sandpaper tacked to the bench for trueing up a plane iron.

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Well the beer fridge was right next to where i was working so that helped things along the fuller is back together now and just finished some test cuts to set up the blade depth pretty happy with the result and the Stanley sharpening kit i picked up on the way home today. Next time i will try the sandpaper tacked to the bench for trueing up a plane iron.Sent from my SM-J810Y using Tapatalk

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And I just won an auction on a stanley 13-052 Plough plane that I had bidded on for giggles to see if anyone would outbid me for once no one tried to unlike the router plane auction lol. will be picking it up on Tuesday night I just need to find out where I can find extra irons for it as it only comes with one iron.

I have had an electric plane for probably 30 years and lucky if it has seen an hour of work. Just too aggressive for what I do, so much prefer to use hand planes.

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I have had an electric plane for probably 30 years and lucky if it has seen an hour of work. Just too aggressive for what I do, so much prefer to use hand planes.

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That is why i stopped using my electric planer like you said too agressive and far too easy to take off too much wood last time i used mine i started with a 25mm thick piece of wood and ended up with a 10mm thick piece of wood. Now that i am starting to use native timbers such as Rimu and the only way i can source it is by buying timber framing from demolished houses i just can not afford to have any mistakes that are not fixable and i would rather use hand tools on it with the exception of my drill, sander, saw bench and router those are the only electric tools that go near that wood.

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Electric planes are handy on rough saw timbers. On wany edged planks I’ll draw a straight edge with a string line and cut close to it with a saw, then use the electric plane to creep up to the line and square up the edge. The resulting edge is good enough to use against a table saw fence to rip the plank to width.

They are also useful for taking out gross cupping or bowing prior to putting the plank on a jointer, it is a damn sight easier to use an electric plane with a straight edge that to take repeated passes over a jointer. The blades are considerably cheaper if you hit grit, nails or similar.

I agree though that for general woodwork they have limited use, they’re used by carpenters not joiners.

Good to see another convert to hand tools. They are enjoyable. Now some advise on the electric plane. They are handy so dont get rid of it. I use mine to clean up recycled wood and even used it to balance up large bowl blanks on the lathe at times. (Lathe not turning of course). Start thinking of it and using it like a handplane. Set it for a shallow cut. It's ideal for cleaning up old painted wood that would not be kind to plane blades. Tungsten blades for it are quite cheap too so you can get to clean wood first then bring out you'r handplanes.
Regards
John

I'm most familiar with the straight edge blades in spoke shaves (making spokes, of course).
Tuned up, even my old ears can hear them sing in the wood. I don't want 15,000rpm.
They "hiss" when they get tired and need a lick on the strop.
True. There are days when a power plane just can't compete with a hand plane.

To make a round spoke from a square blank, I have to count the cuts per corner. Then times 4 corners.
My best estimate is that I have pulled my 2 spoke shaves more than a mile in birch.