Lie-Nielsen Low Angle Jack Plane

1/2" WOW...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>That's a lot to remove. Bet you were huffin' and puffin'. Working on the Popeye arms eh?

Re: Lie-Nielsen Low Angle Jack Plane

Bill Ward

>I had mine out trimming doors last night too. These are double doors that swelled up a bit. I'm not sure I'd like to trim a 1/2" off the top but the LA jack did a nice job on the edges. My wife heard me working up there and thought I was getting dust on her freshly painted (as in wet) doors in the same room. I pointed to the monster curls (shavings) on the floor and she left quietly.

Re: Lie-Nielsen Low Angle Jack Plane

Ellis Walentine

>I was reviewing Chris Schwarz's video "Coarse, Medium and Fine" a little while ago (I'll be posting a review in our video department next week if all goes according to plan) and the gist of it was about efficiencies of using coarser tools for heavier stock removal and working up to the finer tools for the last passes. In the case of removing a half an inch from a door, if it had been me, I think I would have lopped off 7/16" or so with a bowsaw (this is the hand tools forum -- no jigsaws or skilsaws, right?) and then used the plane to clean up and flatten the last sixteenth or so.

I don't know if it's laziness or old age. :-) I do know the pleasure of planing to your heart's content just for the sake of doing it. I think this is what keeps a lot of galoots going....

Cheers,

Ellis

I love mine

Frank D. in Montreal

>I use it as a super-smoother. It's a fine plane.

Re: I love mine

VTAndy4

>I just came back from the shop where I was using the 62 on some hard maple that was tearing out for other planes -- I just popped in the blade with the 40* secondary bevel, closed up the throat, and began the damage repair...

Or

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Other "coarse" approaches include a hatchet, a drawknife, or a scrub plane.

See, here's the thing

Fred West in West Chester, PA

>I wasn't actually planning on removing that much with the 62 but once I started it was so much fun and the shavings were so beautiful I could not stop. :o) Maybe stupid on my part but very enjoyable. Fred

Not stupid at all

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Just glad that you enjoyed the time (and, if you have a significant other, that you got that few moments of hand tool pleasure under the radar). Come visit here more often - we might help get you hooked on one of life's true pleasures, right up there with messing about in boats.

Re: Not stupid at all

Fred West in West Chester, PA

>Bill, thank you I do have a significant other and she greatly enjoyed watching the planing but I think not as much as I enjoyed using it. Thank you also for the invite over here on the quite side and I accept. :o) Fred