Jeff Skory
04-25-2009, 11:05 PM
Hi all,
I am quite new to the Neanderthal world. Been lurking for a while. :rolleyes: Always had a desire to play with all those hand tools but have not really started until now.
So I have started out with hand planes. I own a Record #4 that I bought quite a number of years ago but never really got the hang of and it has been sitting on the shelf. However, lately I have started reading - bought Hack's book (I'm about half way through it) and I won an e-bay auction that included 3 handplanes.
The handplanes consisted of a wooden plane made in Germany, a Stanley 220, and a Stanley Bailey No. 4. I didn't realize what shape these were really in from the pictures. Quite a bit of rust and a lot of japanning missing.
So I spent quite a number of hours restoring the planes. Man, that's a lot of work!!
Anyway, I finally got the no. 4 working pretty good. Still need to work on getting super thin shavings but I'm pretty happy for now. As you can see in the pictures I had fun making a pile of shavings.
And I have to say that I find the Bailey has a much nicer feel to it than the Record.
As time goes on here I would like to build myself a workbench with a vise or two and start working my way into other hand tools (saws, chisels, etc.). Thanks for all the advice you guys have given, even if I didn't ask the questions personally. :D
Jeff
I am quite new to the Neanderthal world. Been lurking for a while. :rolleyes: Always had a desire to play with all those hand tools but have not really started until now.
So I have started out with hand planes. I own a Record #4 that I bought quite a number of years ago but never really got the hang of and it has been sitting on the shelf. However, lately I have started reading - bought Hack's book (I'm about half way through it) and I won an e-bay auction that included 3 handplanes.
The handplanes consisted of a wooden plane made in Germany, a Stanley 220, and a Stanley Bailey No. 4. I didn't realize what shape these were really in from the pictures. Quite a bit of rust and a lot of japanning missing.
So I spent quite a number of hours restoring the planes. Man, that's a lot of work!!
Anyway, I finally got the no. 4 working pretty good. Still need to work on getting super thin shavings but I'm pretty happy for now. As you can see in the pictures I had fun making a pile of shavings.
And I have to say that I find the Bailey has a much nicer feel to it than the Record.
As time goes on here I would like to build myself a workbench with a vise or two and start working my way into other hand tools (saws, chisels, etc.). Thanks for all the advice you guys have given, even if I didn't ask the questions personally. :D
Jeff