How To Restore A Woodworking Plane

Plane looks like an old mosely plane looking at the handle but i could easily be wrong here.

How to restore a woodworking plane. Wooden planes can be the quickest hand planes to restore although you ll want to start out with a good candidate. How to restore old woodworking planes. Smoothing planes can be more awkward but i got lucky finding this little old one without much wear these. Recently wood s hand tool expert john olson took it upon himself to rehab one such plane a turn of the century knock off of a stanley no.

Need some tips on the best steps to take to restore a bench plane. Larry makes sells very good quality wooden planes and you can t go wrong with his advice. Look for the maker s mark as detailed in larry s post and below. Its design makes a nice compromise between a smoother and a.

For those of you that don t know a hand plane is a woodworking tool that s been around for a few centuries a. In this diy tool restoration project i ll show you how to restore old hand planes as i take some of my grandfather s old hand planes and give them a new life in my workshop. Note that if you are going to use a plane to bead one edge of a tongue and groove joint the span between the sole of the plane and the depth stop must be less than or equal to the shoulder height. If you re restoring a hand plane for roughing work then old wooden jack s can be picked up very cheaply and for the heavy work you don t need to worry about a wide mouth.

The 3 16 planes had fences of about 1 16 the 1 4 planes had fences of about 3 32 and the 5 16 planes had fences of about 1 8. In this video you will find the techniques of how i recently restored an old wooden try plane and brought it back into service. Restored 1889 stanley handplane. Most of us have one or more old bench planes sitting on shelves gathering everything but sawdust.

This method will. Simple products simply used for a stunning result. Since that is not an option i have taken to buying old hand planes and restoring them. I have a few years experience with wooden planes but nowhere near larry s expertise.

My mom came out to visit a few months back and she brought me a couple old hand planes that belonged to my grandfather a stanley 78 and a stanley 60 1 2. Whether it is rusty from disuse or as good as new paul sellers shows what he does to get a plane working perfectly. How to restore hand planes. Restoring a vintage hand plane.

On a recent trip to north carolina my wife and i had stopped at an antique store where i found a few decent stanley bailey hand planes.