Plane use

[rick carpenter]

Just watched a Ch**rios commercial about a guy who loves to make birdhouses. He's in what looks like a woodworking shop: workbench, tools hanging up, drill press, chop saw, etc. He chucked a birdhouse front panel (wall?) in a vise and used a plane to smooth the upper curvature. Not to take it level, but using it like a spokeshave.

[Bill Houghton]

For a convex curve, nothing wrong with that. Some people might find it easier to maintain the smoothness of the curve, since the length of the plane body would give them a clearer sense of the orientation of the tool to the curve.

[Frank Drew]

Wasn't he going uphill against the grain somewhere along that curved edge?

[Jim Koepke]

I have done that on things.

Easy with a small plane, hard with a #8.

jtk

[Brian Kent]

Looks like he is doing a curve or a chamfer edge around a knothole, so the grain is on a curve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu38CP5OfLY&NR=1

[David Weaver]

My mother would look at some rubbed out casework I have in the bedroom, and then look at that guy's birdhouses and say "why don't you make cute stuff like that and sell it?"

I missed the cheerios part of that commercial, but I didn't have the sound up.

use your tools any way you like as long as the results are good.