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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 […]