Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Planing for beginners *LINK*
Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>I just watched Phil Lowe's 8 part video series on hand planes, found it really cool for beginners, stuff like blade cambering, removing scratches in plane bottoms, and some more basic stuff. Particularly interesting for me was the segment on tuning scraper planes, with emphasis on the #80.
I think this is great, takes beginners to a stage from which it's a lot easier to ask questions.
Re: Planing for beginners
Jim in GA
>Pam, Thanks for pointing this series out to us. I watched several of them. I was really looking at the last one.
I enjoy flattening boards by hand but I don't always get them flat right off. I'm maybe 80-90% where I flatten it easily. The other times, I seem to be creating problems and have to start over. I use winding sticks and a variety of planes. One thing about the video is that I'm puzzled how he gets rid of the cup without continually checking with a straight edge. Seems like he'd have to do a bit of diagonal planing to remove the cup. I've seen a few videos on flat board planing and all of them so far seem to get great result but without clearly dealing with planing across a cup or dealing with a twist. It's like they don't have the same problem boards that I seem to have! Sometimes I end up just moving the "high" spots around. Does anyone have any suggestions for me. I'm getting better after several years so maybe it's just an experience thing. Maybe I'll do my own video some day where I explain all those problem situations. :)
Jim in GA
Re: Planing for beginners
Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>Phil has a real good eye for flat enough, but he's also reading the plane and shavings. And those boards had a fairly predictable, tame cup. Normally in that situation I'd flatten the convex side first, then the concave.
Pam
great teacher
Dean Lapinel
>I was going to skip this because I have not seen any enjoyable instruction on hand planes. Either the talking was overdone or the actual work shown too brief.
I saw the first section and will now watch the whole thing. Phil is a naturally gifted instructor- brief and to the point. Maybe I'll pick up a tip by watching the series, maybe I won't ...who cares, this guy is mesmerizing!