Refurbishing Old Hand Planes Part 4: Sharpening the iron
Wow, a tremendous response from some of you who are following my restoration articles! Thank you all for your kind words and support! For those of you just joining us, we’ve been discussing how to refurbish an old Stanley #4 hand plane that I inherited as a family heirloom. If you have missed part 1, […]
Refurbishing Old Hand Planes Part 3: Modifying the throat and chip breaker.
For those following along, welcome back! For those of you just joining us, we’ve been talking about how to restore an old Stanley #4 hand plane. If you’d like to catch up, feel free to check out part 1 and part 2 beforehand. We’ve got our sole flattened and our frog is true, and now […]
Refurbishing Old Hand Planes Part 2: Truing the Frog
Welcome back! If you’re still with us after reading part 1, you are a most curious soul. I mean, how could you not be to withstand so much of my boring writing in the name of woodworking?! So now the sole of the plane is flat. I would have to say that 80 percent of […]
Refurbishing Old Hand Planes Part 1: Flattening the Sole.
A couple of weeks ago, I decided on a whim to refurbish a couple of the tools I inherited from my father-in-law: A Block Plane and a Stanley #4 hand plane. Both had really bad surface rust, and were REALLY cupped from years of heavy use. To give you an idea of what I dealt […]