Smartest, best, no-nonsense sharpening guide. I have seen most of them. My dad is a ninety-seven-year old cabinet maker, the fifth generation in his family of cabinet makers and carpenters. He only had one sharpening stone and a leather strop. And of course, all his cabinet making planes were wooden ones. I have inherited a large number of tools from my dad and my grand father. I feel joy but also the weight of respect and tradition when I use these tools. Thanks for helping guys like me to better understand the world of my ancestors. I worked a lot with my dad as a child, but I have so much more to learn in every area of wood working. I just want to thank you again for these wonderful videos.
Can’t tell you how many videos I’ve watched in sharpening and no one ever addresses the cap iron. This just makes so much sense! Can’t wait to go to the shop and give this a try. My favorite channel!
Hello Mr. C, I am a 22 year old german carpenter with a fable for handtools. We were tought how to set up and use wooden hand planes as apprentices but told to flaten the very edge of our cap irons with a file in a 91° angle to the plane iron (makes kind of okay shavings) and then told to plane in the direction of the wood To be honest i didn't believe in your technique but i tried it out today. I am so astonished, never hand better results... going over european oak against the grain over a knot and doing perfectly without tear out. Thank you very much, i am proud to have learned something from a true master
1:44 I got my smoother plane for free. I found it in the wall of a turn of the (previous) century italianate (people often calk them victorians) when I renovated the kitchen. Some poor carpenter, dead for decades, left it in the wall while he was beveling the lath prior to plastering. The workmanship and attention to detail always amazes me. No butt joined lath, beveled. The plane is identical to yours. I have subsequently been using it for decades since.
This tutorial is amazing! I use both machines and hand tools, and I never knew that one can get such good results going against the grain/around the knots. I knew how to sharpen the iron, but the importance and setting up of the cap iron is kinda new to me. Others repeat 'go with the grain' thing, but it is wood that we're working with, grain direction changes...sometimes three times in one plane stroke :) Thanks
Josh, thanks for your service to our country! Thanks, also, for your kind and gentle spirit, and for embracing and promoting such positivity, confidence, and being satisfied with what you have, while continuing to learn and becoming more who you should be! I wish I had seen the benefit of such a life at your young age! Better late than never for me! Carry on and thanks for your example!
Every time i watch one of your vids, i see you use a tool and i’m like,” I have one of those!”. I was fortunate enough to have a grand uncle who was a carpenter in the fist half of the twentieth century. he left his tools to my Grandmother, my Grandfather was an extremely handy guy who used and cared for them, When my Grandmother passed, the tools were given to me. I’ve used some, like the bit braces and the odd plane, but never really utilized them.( I’ve kept them protected and cherished as the legacy they are) I’m an HVAC tech by trade, and eschewed these traditional tools in favor of modern power tools.Granted i was surprised at how easy say a bit brace/auger bit would go through wood, i only used them if i needed to do something and had no other choice. Watching you, i see the possibilities and will be putting them back in service. thanks for all of the information and inspiration!
All of your video's deserves more than one thumbs up. This one deserves at least 10 thumbs up.You need to tell youtube you need more thumbs up options. Can't tell you how much this has helped me. Thanky very very much!!!
I've spent hundreds of dollars foolishly over the years buying diamond stones, oil stones, water stones. I've finally realize for all my hand tool work that I could have had one stone and a strop as you show. Moreover, I've gone completely to wooden planes. There is absolutely no comparison once you learn how to set up, tune and adjust them. All this technology and waste has been a learning experience. I hope all the watchers will keep it simple and make sharpening a quick and easy thing to do. It should NOT be a chore and should be done regularly and quickly. If you think craftsmen of old went through all the nonsense we have been duped into believing, you have another thing coming. Thanks for this video. Well thought out, well executed and spot on.
I find more guidance from trying to just copy the tool set and practice of folk craftsman before the machine age, they were working class joes who did amazing work with little tools, and used very simple and effective techniques, that sadly were not often passed on. The tools themselves can be good teachers.
When I first started with planes I bought every stone and sharpening jig I saw to help me sharpen. Then, I read an article by a famous Japanese carpenter. He used to teach classes, and he said he was always amused that his American students would show up to his class with a bag full of sharpening jigs. He said in Japan, when you apprentice with a master woodworker, your first year is spent learning how to sharpen tools by hand. The old timers did not have the time or money to waste on sharpening. They took it to the stone, sharpened it in a minute, and got back to work. My son graduated from the International Yacht Restoration School in Rhode Island. IYRS. He said at one of his first jobs, his boss saw a worker spending time sharpening a plane blade and he walked over to him, grabbed the blade and said, "This is how you do it." He walked over to the stone, poured some Coke on it, and in a minute had it sharp. Then he said, "Quit wasting time. " LOL Another famous British chair maker hosted a Famous American RUclipsr for a lesson on his chairs - The American showed up with a bag full of hand planes and the Brit asked him, "What are all those for?" He then walked over to his bench, picked up a # 7 and said, "This is the only plane you'll need." Simplicity. Great video. The alternate micro bevel is commonly called, "The ruler trick" today. But some of the old timers still believe in getting that back flat and shiny
Love your content! Been watching you for quite a while. Love how you go bare minimum. No diamond stones. Giant piece of flat granite... Was so getting ready to judge you for testing on pine. Hate it when that's the only test folks use. Proof is in the pudding!!! You rocked it! Birds eye maple.... If it can do that, it can do anything. Peace be with you and family. Keep it up!
Marketing woodworking hand tools must be a hell of a job when there's such a wealth of old, inherently better tools going for peanuts, and guys like you doing their best to make sure people are aware of that.
thanks for the plane facts. this is true traditional knowledge that you won't find anywhere else. last night I submitted my resume to a local timber frame company, hoping for a major career change. inspired in part by Mr. Chickadee of course.
Mr Chickadee Your Tutorials are not Dirty they are more beautiful than watching a movie .I loved the way you made a ruobo work bench i Loved the way you and small girl fell a infected tree .Love and Regards to you and your Family from India Your videos are beautiful and i follow you on saturdays and sundays .I am not a wood worker at age 41 i found my self inclined towards wood i dont know if i ll ever be able to shape wood all by self i am just taking baby steps ,i saw mdfs are useless and wood is expensive in cities .Please make videos for people like me a million and ten thanks i sincerely owe you
Hey Josh, it is always such a pleasure to watch a great teacher at work, via a video that is so well done. Only thing better is in real life. Hope you and the missus are having a good spring.
As a new woodworker trying to figure everything out, I believe this video will revolutionize my performance with hand planes. Thank you so much! Love the content!
You definitely have a kiss method but also a natural talent for teaching. Im aware enough from experience on how to do such things but I have open ears to new methods and actually enjoy watching your videos. I tip my hat to you
I’ve been watching you for years, and have always enjoyed your videos. I’m loving the newer instructional videos. You have a lot of hard earned knowledge, that’s worth sharing in this format.
Very nice...im gonna like these tutorials even more than your regular videos. Great stuff. I already knew most of the information but constant learning is what keeps us sharp and focused just like our plane blades.
@@MrChickadee Thank you. I did! I noticed that the cavity in front of the blade is way too tiny, I had to use some pointy thing to remove the shavings. I increased that cavity, I can use my finger to clear it and it does not jam up anymore. Still a lot to tinker with, but that only was a tremendous improvement.
This should be a sharpening 101 for anyone who uses hand planes especially the 50+ degree bevel on the cap and the distance between edge of blade and cap. Excellent explanation, thank you.
Great tutorial! Your way is a lot less bother and expense than most of the YT'ers out there. I always want to throw out all my power tools after I watch your videos. I DON"T NEED $150 DIAMOND STONES or $250 WATER STONES!!
My 200€ Diamond Stones lost their grip after few months of usage. Definitely not worth the money. But I like my water stones. I am impressed by Mr. Chikadee perfect result against the grain.
It seems there are two distinct forms of woodworking today. Those like yourself working wood the way it was done for millennia and those willing to spend tens of thousands of pounds on machinery and bling tools. I must confess I was one of those taken in by the glitzy commercials . I still have some of those machines because they can make some laborious tasks more bearable. However I have found hand tools and traditional methods more satisfying in my pursuit of happy workshop time. I have also found learning how to set up and use hand tools has not only gained me new skills it has in addition provided me with a better understanding of how the tool interacts with the wood, important when things invariably go wrong or mistakes are made. In any case an interesting video, I just hope it doesn't lead to a mass desire to buy old tools because they are still plentiful and easy to get a hold of for little money. I have even had people give me them because they don't know how to use them. Good luck.
Using one single sharpening stone is the first video of its kind i've seen. Thanks for sharing the oil was being used on the stone. You're right, the knots usually give me issues while planning. I will give this method a try. Also, what is that wood finish you use? Love these instructional videos. Thank you for your service. Semper Fi!
That’s got to be the best shop lesson I have ever paid attention to !! 👍👍 Thanks Josh for the sharing and teaching us about the woodplane. Great job for sure. Fred.
I am impressed. With such thick shavings no tear outs against the grain and around knots - I never thought this will be possible. For a shiny planed surface on difficult wood I am happy that I can do it with a fine tuned Japanese Plane (Kanna) cutting very fine shavings and this took my quite a long time of practicing sharpening and planing.
what do you think about using only 1 stone ? I don't understand how it's possible to get that sharp with this tuto while japanese have hours of setup and a lot of fine stones...
When it comes to hand tool use you're my go to guy because you learned it all the hard way, by trial and error and error, etc. Thanks for the tips on use and acquisition.
Made my day when your new video came out. I inherited a couple of planes from my father and wanted to sharpen them so this was a nice coincidence. Hope you and your family are well and I look forward to your new projects and watching your four legged helpers.
Thanks for another outstanding instructional video. For some reason I had always thought steel planes were preferable to wooden planes. Probably the result of watching too many other RUclips woodworking channels. I have an old wooden tri plan from my grandfather I'm going to restore using your tips.
Man.... that is such a useful instruction you gave here. I am currently building a #6 size wooden plane. Beech wood. On one of the sides the grain is opposite at two different ends. So tear out at one end no matter which direction you plane. When sharpening the blade I paid very special attention to the cap iron. I prepared and polished it exactly you explained. And adjusted it a about 0.5mm from the edge. The result is amazing. No more tear out. And the shavings are ... different. First they came out curled and not usually the full length of the stroke. Now the shavings are continuous and straight with a slight amount of curling. I don't know whether that is good or bad. The surface is shiny and super smooth. Like highly polished. On both ends. Regardless whether I planed with the grain and against the grain.
Josh, I'm in your camp on the over the hill sharpening systems out there especially power sharping systems of all types and sizes. I do all my blades and chisels free hand, using the method shown on the Norton's RUclips channel which is a style a little different than you're demonstrating but which has given me great results with Minium work to get it sharpen. I don't use any power or had grinders for shaping the primary. Do it all with 220 wet dry paper on granite. I do my sharpening with paper on glass, and I lap or polish with rough on Avery shelf adhesive labels or masking tape, glass, even the micro bevel if applied on glass. I have some 1-dollar chisels that cut just as well if as my Stanley 750 sweetheart when pairing even though I don't like their handles, still would make great skewed bevel chisels for that application and for a 1 dollar from the flea market! Your points are well stated but they must be practiced with patience and commitment to getting good results, always seeking to understand and making it work. One point even you did not mention when doing this work, if you get tired just put it down and come back the after dinner or the next day. A little break does a soul good! Steven Columbus Michigan
Thanks for the video. I’ve been following you for a long time and you are a very busy man, but I just wanted you to know you are a good instructor. If you ever get caught up with everything in your life you could make great instructional videos in the future! Semper Fi!
Thanks for the video. While cleaning up and sharpening my wooden smoothing plane, I noticed a stamping I hadn't seen before. My plane was made by the Auburn Tool Company in NY between 1864 and 1893. Not bad for $15!
These turorials videos are just priceless just like those old tools thank you so much for sharing with us and for giving an other life to theses tools.
Thanks for making this video. I've seen dozens of handplane tutorials and have been successfully using them for years and yet still learned new information. Well done.
I've been a journeyman cabinetmaker for 25 years and I can vouch for what you've said, setting up the cap iron so it sits really tight against the back of the iron is the secret. That and a good, thick, preferably laminated iron. That's the main fault with a Bailey pattern plane. I use them for most work but like you I prefer an all wood plane for harder timbers or something with some wild grain. Block planes, lacking a cap iron are all but useless unless for what their name suggests, namely end grain work.
So this is my first video of yours where I heard you speak, and WOW! I'm super glad I found this. I've struggled with my Millers Fall No. 4 for years and I'm thinking it's because I never touched the cap iron after I bought it. I'll have to get out and try sharpening that as well as see how it goes. Thank you for the great tutorial and the no nonsense method to your approach. It's good to know that with a just a few old quality tools, people can do a WHOLE lot.
Really appreciate the simple, straightforward tutorial. After watching the items you've created, I had set the bar really high for myself on what I needed to have in tools and tool condition. Thanks for keeping it real. Please make more of these!
Ten years ago, I took classes of cabinet making. Finally gave up because I was not good enough. Watching this video, I can't do anything but think that, have I had a teacher like you, I would have been much better at it :) Thanks for the videos and sorry for the mistakes, English is not my mother's tongue.
Great instruction video, Josh. Given my box of used Japanese planes waiting to be refurbished, I’ll have to bookmark this and come back to it again and again.
I am so impressed with your knowledge, and your willingness to share. I really learned a lot with this video, and am embarrassed to say that over the years I have wasted a ton of money. Thanks
EXCELLENT as always Always a joy to watch. Block plane: My Dad swore by it as an essential plane. I never liked a block plane. About 20 years after he died I tried his block plane. (Its +40 years older than mine.) Now its the most reached-for plane with probably as many miles as the smoothing plane. So for me it is an essential plane. Been doing this for more years than I can believe and learned something new from you about the oil to use for sharpening. Thank you very much. Old habits die hard: My Dad and I always laid planes on their side because we were outside or we did not know where the nail heads were in the bench. When I applied a new nail free bench top, we kept the old habit even though we didn't need to do it. When my Dad reconditioned the planes with new bespoke handles for him and for me, he made custom fiber boxes. So, we could place the thin, high box on the bench, pull the plane, place the plane in and out of the box, then at the end of the day a quick vacuum and back in the cabinet for storage. Super efficient, clean and safe. Great for us who like to walk into a clean shop every morning.
Thank your for a very straight forward tutorial. My personal experience has been exactly as you explained. Often technology creeps in to add new and improved techniques when it's not always necessary. I personally have not found a better method, to achieve a perfect finish, than the method shown in this video.
Well, you certainly broadened my horizons! I almost didn't watch because it's about planes. I said "Well, that stuff is frigging Greek to me, I've never been able to use one, and don't have a grand to spend on honing stones." Looks like I'll be keeping my eye out for planes in the future. Superb tutorial.
Great video! Never tinkered with the cap iron because everything I read said put it 1/32” from the end. Definitely going to play around with some of the more difficult planes I have now.
Thank you for this informative video. I always learn something from you. My Dad and Grandfather always told me to lay the plane on the side. THANKS for clearing that up for me.
Another great video! Really informative and concise. I really like when you do these videos, showing how something that is essentially trash can be restored to its former glory and provide many more years of service. Great for the pocket book and the environment, not to mention providing the new owner with a sense of accomplishment when the old tool is all cleaned up and dialed in 🙂
This really helps me out. I have several wooden and steel planes sitting on the corner bench waiting to be restored but never knew how to set them up. Now I have the urge to get them working again and use them alongside my power tools.
Thank you for the indepth and clear explanation. I always have liked the wooden planes but was too intimated and also uneducated about them. Know I feel comfortable in finding one and giving it a go.
Man. Thank you so much. I have very cheap 💩 metal planes (faithfull) and I was struggling with them for a long time. Avoiding using them. They are still crap, but after dressing up chip breaker as you have suggested it completely transform them to actually being useful. I was able to get the blade shaving sharp before, but it was not helpful and the chip breaker thing completely changed the game. This is best tutorial with biggest impact on me I have seen. Thank you again. Keep up great work.
Always love the videos and anticipate the new ones. Just bought my first wooden plane and have cleaned up the iron. The tote was broken but I think I've fixed it. Can't wait to do more wood working.
Thanks A LOT for these videos. I've been thinking about even buying relatively expensive planes because I don't like buying twice, but this has convinced me I should try antique ones. I hope I find them around here.
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Smartest, best, no-nonsense sharpening guide. I have seen most of them. My dad is a ninety-seven-year old cabinet maker, the fifth generation in his family of cabinet makers and carpenters. He only had one sharpening stone and a leather strop. And of course, all his cabinet making planes were wooden ones. I have inherited a large number of tools from my dad and my grand father. I feel joy but also the weight of respect and tradition when I use these tools. Thanks for helping guys like me to better understand the world of my ancestors. I worked a lot with my dad as a child, but I have so much more to learn in every area of wood working. I just want to thank you again for these wonderful videos.
Sounds like your dad is a wealth of knowledge!
Can’t tell you how many videos I’ve watched in sharpening and no one ever addresses the cap iron. This just makes so much sense! Can’t wait to go to the shop and give this a try. My favorite channel!
Glad to help
I would love a vid on dimensioning wood
You make everything look so easy and uncomplicated. I love watching your channel. Soothing to the nerves
Glad you enjoy it!
Fantastic, practical, demystifying, simple. Thank you. I really enjoyed the real ex-plane-nation. [had to be done] :)
You're very welcome!
Hello Mr. C, I am a 22 year old german carpenter with a fable for handtools. We were tought how to set up and use wooden hand planes as apprentices but told to flaten the very edge of our cap irons with a file in a 91° angle to the plane iron (makes kind of okay shavings) and then told to plane in the direction of the wood
To be honest i didn't believe in your technique but i tried it out today.
I am so astonished, never hand better results... going over european oak against the grain over a knot and doing perfectly without tear out.
Thank you very much, i am proud to have learned something from a true master
awesome to hear!
You are a very talented man Mr. Chickadee
1:44 I got my smoother plane for free. I found it in the wall of a turn of the (previous) century italianate (people often calk them victorians) when I renovated the kitchen. Some poor carpenter, dead for decades, left it in the wall while he was beveling the lath prior to plastering. The workmanship and attention to detail always amazes me. No butt joined lath, beveled. The plane is identical to yours. I have subsequently been using it for decades since.
What a wonderful story!
the single best plane sharpening tutorial on the web. Thank you, much appreciated.
This tutorial is amazing! I use both machines and hand tools, and I never knew that one can get such good results going against the grain/around the knots. I knew how to sharpen the iron, but the importance and setting up of the cap iron is kinda new to me. Others repeat 'go with the grain' thing, but it is wood that we're working with, grain direction changes...sometimes three times in one plane stroke :)
Thanks
Yep, its a game changer for sure!
Josh, thanks for your service to our country! Thanks, also, for your kind and gentle spirit, and for embracing and promoting such positivity, confidence, and being satisfied with what you have, while continuing to learn and becoming more who you should be! I wish I had seen the benefit of such a life at your young age! Better late than never for me! Carry on and thanks for your example!
This series is just perfect in every way possible!
Every time i watch one of your vids, i see you use a tool and i’m like,” I have one of those!”. I was fortunate enough to have a grand uncle who was a carpenter in the fist half of the twentieth century. he left his tools to my Grandmother, my Grandfather was an extremely handy guy who used and cared for them, When my Grandmother passed, the tools were given to me. I’ve used some, like the bit braces and the odd plane, but never really utilized them.( I’ve kept them protected and cherished as the legacy they are) I’m an HVAC tech by trade, and eschewed these traditional tools in favor of modern power tools.Granted i was surprised at how easy say a bit brace/auger bit would go through wood, i only used them if i needed to do something and had no other choice. Watching you, i see the possibilities and will be putting them back in service. thanks for all of the information and inspiration!
Had to come back and re-watch this. Incredible stuff. Super informative and appreciate you “cutting through the garbage”.
love the whistle you get from a good, sharp iron.
All of your video's deserves more than one thumbs up. This one deserves at least 10 thumbs up.You need to tell youtube you need more thumbs up options. Can't tell you how much this has helped me. Thanky very very much!!!
I've spent hundreds of dollars foolishly over the years buying diamond stones, oil stones, water stones. I've finally realize for all my hand tool work that I could have had one stone and a strop as you show. Moreover, I've gone completely to wooden planes. There is absolutely no comparison once you learn how to set up, tune and adjust them. All this technology and waste has been a learning experience. I hope all the watchers will keep it simple and make sharpening a quick and easy thing to do. It should NOT be a chore and should be done regularly and quickly. If you think craftsmen of old went through all the nonsense we have been duped into believing, you have another thing coming. Thanks for this video. Well thought out, well executed and spot on.
I find more guidance from trying to just copy the tool set and practice of folk craftsman before the machine age, they were working class joes who did amazing work with little tools, and used very simple and effective techniques, that sadly were not often passed on. The tools themselves can be good teachers.
With your videos and a couple of years practice, I can now sharpen and use my planes👍
Perfect!
When I first started with planes I bought every stone and sharpening jig I saw to help me sharpen. Then, I read an article by a famous Japanese carpenter. He used to teach classes, and he said he was always amused that his American students would show up to his class with a bag full of sharpening jigs. He said in Japan, when you apprentice with a master woodworker, your first year is spent learning how to sharpen tools by hand. The old timers did not have the time or money to waste on sharpening. They took it to the stone, sharpened it in a minute, and got back to work. My son graduated from the International Yacht Restoration School in Rhode Island. IYRS. He said at one of his first jobs, his boss saw a worker spending time sharpening a plane blade and he walked over to him, grabbed the blade and said, "This is how you do it." He walked over to the stone, poured some Coke on it, and in a minute had it sharp. Then he said, "Quit wasting time. " LOL Another famous British chair maker hosted a Famous American RUclipsr for a lesson on his chairs - The American showed up with a bag full of hand planes and the Brit asked him, "What are all those for?" He then walked over to his bench, picked up a # 7 and said, "This is the only plane you'll need." Simplicity. Great video. The alternate micro bevel is commonly called, "The ruler trick" today. But some of the old timers still believe in getting that back flat and shiny
Love your content! Been watching you for quite a while. Love how you go bare minimum. No diamond stones. Giant piece of flat granite... Was so getting ready to judge you for testing on pine. Hate it when that's the only test folks use. Proof is in the pudding!!! You rocked it! Birds eye maple.... If it can do that, it can do anything. Peace be with you and family. Keep it up!
Avoiding tear-out is argument enough for me to go back to the basics.
Marketing woodworking hand tools must be a hell of a job when there's such a wealth of old, inherently better tools going for peanuts, and guys like you doing their best to make sure people are aware of that.
its pretty easy for them when these days hobby woodworker doesnt know any better, and has more money than time
refreshing no-bs approach
thanks for the plane facts. this is true traditional knowledge that you won't find anywhere else. last night I submitted my resume to a local timber frame company, hoping for a major career change. inspired in part by Mr. Chickadee of course.
Excellent!
Wow man planning that birds eye and knot is the proof in the pudding your workmanship
Thank you so much for this education. You have prevented me from having to ask stupid questions.
Great video. You're an excellent teacher.
I appreciate that!
Mr Chickadee Your Tutorials are not Dirty they are more beautiful than watching a movie .I loved the way you made a ruobo work bench i Loved the way you and small girl fell a infected tree .Love and Regards to you and your Family from India Your videos are beautiful and i follow you on saturdays and sundays .I am not a wood worker at age 41 i found my self inclined towards wood i dont know if i ll ever be able to shape wood all by self i am just taking baby steps ,i saw mdfs are useless and wood is expensive in cities .Please make videos for people like me a million and ten thanks i sincerely owe you
What a class, brother . Thanks from Brazil.
Old habits die hard. You still rested the plane on its side in the end :)
there was some grit from grinding that day. Normally I dont.
Mr. C. hardly ever speaks. But when he does, you better listen. Excellent video.
Hey Josh, it is always such a pleasure to watch a great teacher at work, via a video that is so well done. Only thing better is in real life. Hope you and the missus are having a good spring.
Just noticed I was using the wife's account, cheers, Brad Hadden.
Great to hear from you Brad!
Mr chickadee You are a solid piece of gold
I'm another person who has planes that need to be tuned-up. Thank you for this extremely useful video.
As a new woodworker trying to figure everything out, I believe this video will revolutionize my performance with hand planes. Thank you so much! Love the content!
You definitely have a kiss method but also a natural talent for teaching. Im aware enough from experience on how to do such things but I have open ears to new methods and actually enjoy watching your videos. I tip my hat to you
I’ve been watching you for years, and have always enjoyed your videos. I’m loving the newer instructional videos. You have a lot of hard earned knowledge, that’s worth sharing in this format.
Glad you like them!
Thank you. That was perfectly presented.
Very nice...im gonna like these tutorials even more than your regular videos. Great stuff. I already knew most of the information but constant learning is what keeps us sharp and focused just like our plane blades.
Glad to hear it!
THANK YOU! I never fully understood the tool. This is the best explanation I have seen...
Glad it helped!
Wow! I was fighting with a crappy wood plane yesterday, now I have a lot of new things to try! Thanks a lot.
You can do it!
@@MrChickadee Thank you. I did! I noticed that the cavity in front of the blade is way too tiny, I had to use some pointy thing to remove the shavings. I increased that cavity, I can use my finger to clear it and it does not jam up anymore. Still a lot to tinker with, but that only was a tremendous improvement.
Very well done video. Hoping you will continue making videos like these that help all of us woodworkers. Thanks very much!
This should be a sharpening 101 for anyone who uses hand planes especially the 50+ degree bevel on the cap and the distance between edge of blade and cap. Excellent explanation, thank you.
Wow! Really effective demonstrations! That's the, fix it right and get back to work, style my grandad used. Very enjoyable!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great tutorial! Your way is a lot less bother and expense than most of the YT'ers out there. I always want to throw out all my power tools after I watch your videos. I DON"T NEED $150 DIAMOND STONES or $250 WATER STONES!!
My 200€ Diamond Stones lost their grip after few months of usage. Definitely not worth the money. But I like my water stones. I am impressed by Mr. Chikadee perfect result against the grain.
Absolutely wild. I literally just bought the exact same wooden smoothing and jack plane a month ago for $30. Thanks for the tips Mr. C!
Glad I could help!
Absolutely love the sound of a sharp plane cutting through wood. Great video. Love all your stuff
Glad you enjoy it!
Finally an honest tutorial! Thank you!
No worries!
Best tutorial I’ve seen. Thank you
Great video:)
I'm on the hunt for what I thought was 'old fashioned' and inferior wooden planes. You've opened my eyes and I thank you!
Wow. I've looked many videos about planes & sharpening them, but i've learnt a lot there. Thanks !
Very welcome!
It seems there are two distinct forms of woodworking today. Those like yourself working wood the way it was done for millennia and those willing to spend tens of thousands of pounds on machinery and bling tools. I must confess I was one of those taken in by the glitzy commercials . I still have some of those machines because they can make some laborious tasks more bearable. However I have found hand tools and traditional methods more satisfying in my pursuit of happy workshop time. I have also found learning how to set up and use hand tools has not only gained me new skills it has in addition provided me with a better understanding of how the tool interacts with the wood, important when things invariably go wrong or mistakes are made. In any case an interesting video, I just hope it doesn't lead to a mass desire to buy old tools because they are still plentiful and easy to get a hold of for little money. I have even had people give me them because they don't know how to use them. Good luck.
Using one single sharpening stone is the first video of its kind i've seen. Thanks for sharing the oil was being used on the stone. You're right, the knots usually give me issues while planning. I will give this method a try. Also, what is that wood finish you use? Love these instructional videos. Thank you for your service. Semper Fi!
You are amazing! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world.
So nice of you
By far the most straightforward instruction on getting a good sharp edge.
Excellent film, thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge and discoveries!
My pleasure!
I like the way you work
very skilled and informative and using tools rather than machines
Cool, thanks
That’s got to be the best shop lesson I have ever paid attention to !! 👍👍 Thanks Josh for the sharing and teaching us about the woodplane. Great job for sure. Fred.
Any time!
First time I heard you speak. This is a brilliant tutorial thanks for your time and effort putting your videos together.
I am impressed. With such thick shavings no tear outs against the grain and around knots - I never thought this will be possible. For a shiny planed surface on difficult wood I am happy that I can do it with a fine tuned Japanese Plane (Kanna) cutting very fine shavings and this took my quite a long time of practicing sharpening and planing.
what do you think about using only 1 stone ? I don't understand how it's possible to get that sharp with this tuto while japanese have hours of setup and a lot of fine stones...
When it comes to hand tool use you're my go to guy because you learned it all the hard way, by trial and error and error, etc. Thanks for the tips on use and acquisition.
mostly error, lots and lots of error!
Thankyou. I have used many tools and I am mechanically inclined but there is no replacement for a good tutor. The scale of the lesson is perfect also.
Great to hear!
Made my day when your new video came out. I inherited a couple of planes from my father and wanted to sharpen them so this was a nice coincidence. Hope you and your family are well and I look forward to your new projects and watching your four legged helpers.
That is awesome!
Easy and detailed explanation!
Glad you liked it
Thanks for another outstanding instructional video. For some reason I had always thought steel planes were preferable to wooden planes. Probably the result of watching too many other RUclips woodworking channels. I have an old wooden tri plan from my grandfather I'm going to restore using your tips.
Glad to help
Man.... that is such a useful instruction you gave here. I am currently building a #6 size wooden plane. Beech wood. On one of the sides the grain is opposite at two different ends. So tear out at one end no matter which direction you plane. When sharpening the blade I paid very special attention to the cap iron. I prepared and polished it exactly you explained. And adjusted it a about 0.5mm from the edge. The result is amazing. No more tear out. And the shavings are ... different. First they came out curled and not usually the full length of the stroke. Now the shavings are continuous and straight with a slight amount of curling. I don't know whether that is good or bad. The surface is shiny and super smooth. Like highly polished. On both ends. Regardless whether I planed with the grain and against the grain.
Thats great to hear!
Josh, I'm in your camp on the over the hill sharpening systems out there especially power sharping systems of all types and sizes. I do all my blades and chisels free hand, using the method shown on the Norton's RUclips channel which is a style a little different than you're demonstrating but which has given me great results with Minium work to get it sharpen. I don't use any power or had grinders for shaping the primary. Do it all with 220 wet dry paper on granite. I do my sharpening with paper on glass, and I lap or polish with rough on Avery shelf adhesive labels or masking tape, glass, even the micro bevel if applied on glass. I have some 1-dollar chisels that cut just as well if as my Stanley 750 sweetheart when pairing even though I don't like their handles, still would make great skewed bevel chisels for that application and for a 1 dollar from the flea market! Your points are well stated but they must be practiced with patience and commitment to getting good results, always seeking to understand and making it work. One point even you did not mention when doing this work, if you get tired just put it down and come back the after dinner or the next day. A little break does a soul good! Steven Columbus Michigan
Thanks for the video. I’ve been following you for a long time and you are a very busy man, but I just wanted you to know you are a good instructor. If you ever get caught up with everything in your life you could make great instructional videos in the future! Semper Fi!
Thanks for the video. While cleaning up and sharpening my wooden smoothing plane, I noticed a stamping I hadn't seen before. My plane was made by the Auburn Tool Company in NY between 1864 and 1893. Not bad for $15!
Auburn made some nice planes!
The best by far instruction video Thank you for taking the time to share your skill
Glad you enjoyed it!
These turorials videos are just priceless just like those old tools thank you so much for sharing with us and for giving an other life to theses tools.
Thanks for making this video. I've seen dozens of handplane tutorials and have been successfully using them for years and yet still learned new information. Well done.
I've been a journeyman cabinetmaker for 25 years and I can vouch for what you've said, setting up the cap iron so it sits really tight against the back of the iron is the secret.
That and a good, thick, preferably laminated iron. That's the main fault with a Bailey pattern plane. I use them for most work but like you I prefer an all wood plane for harder timbers or something with some wild grain.
Block planes, lacking a cap iron are all but useless unless for what their name suggests, namely end grain work.
I never use a block plane, and dont miss it
So this is my first video of yours where I heard you speak, and WOW! I'm super glad I found this. I've struggled with my Millers Fall No. 4 for years and I'm thinking it's because I never touched the cap iron after I bought it. I'll have to get out and try sharpening that as well as see how it goes. Thank you for the great tutorial and the no nonsense method to your approach. It's good to know that with a just a few old quality tools, people can do a WHOLE lot.
Thanks for the video, this will help me to improve my technique with a plane considerably especially the part about cap irons.
Best of luck!
Really appreciate the simple, straightforward tutorial. After watching the items you've created, I had set the bar really high for myself on what I needed to have in tools and tool condition. Thanks for keeping it real. Please make more of these!
Ten years ago, I took classes of cabinet making. Finally gave up because I was not good enough. Watching this video, I can't do anything but think that, have I had a teacher like you, I would have been much better at it :) Thanks for the videos and sorry for the mistakes, English is not my mother's tongue.
touching comment, thank you my friend!
I have really enjoyed your videos. Thanks Jim
Glad to hear it
Great instruction video, Josh. Given my box of used Japanese planes waiting to be refurbished, I’ll have to bookmark this and come back to it again and again.
I am so impressed with your knowledge, and your willingness to share. I really learned a lot with this video, and am embarrassed to say that over the years I have wasted a ton of money. Thanks
As always very nice video, especially the information regarding the old traditional sharpening techniques. Thanks a lot.
My pleasure!
EXCELLENT as always Always a joy to watch.
Block plane: My Dad swore by it as an essential plane. I never liked a block plane. About 20 years after he died I tried his block plane. (Its +40 years older than mine.) Now its the most reached-for plane with probably as many miles as the smoothing plane. So for me it is an essential plane.
Been doing this for more years than I can believe and learned something new from you about the oil to use for sharpening. Thank you very much.
Old habits die hard: My Dad and I always laid planes on their side because we were outside or we did not know where the nail heads were in the bench. When I applied a new nail free bench top, we kept the old habit even though we didn't need to do it. When my Dad reconditioned the planes with new bespoke handles for him and for me, he made custom fiber boxes. So, we could place the thin, high box on the bench, pull the plane, place the plane in and out of the box, then at the end of the day a quick vacuum and back in the cabinet for storage. Super efficient, clean and safe. Great for us who like to walk into a clean shop every morning.
Thank your for a very straight forward tutorial. My personal experience has been exactly as you explained. Often technology creeps in to add new and improved techniques when it's not always necessary. I personally have not found a better method, to achieve a perfect finish, than the method shown in this video.
Really like the instructional videos you’ve started.
Thank you and keep it up, Mr. C!
More to come!
Well, you certainly broadened my horizons! I almost didn't watch because it's about planes. I said "Well, that stuff is frigging Greek to me, I've never been able to use one, and don't have a grand to spend on honing stones." Looks like I'll be keeping my eye out for planes in the future. Superb tutorial.
Fantastic tutorial, thank you Mr. Chickadee. I'm looking forward to practicing in the shop tomorrow!
Great video! Never tinkered with the cap iron because everything I read said put it 1/32” from the end. Definitely going to play around with some of the more difficult planes I have now.
You should!
I'm very much looking forward to the gouge set up tutorial. I've got a beautiful vintage set that needs some care.
like carving gouges?
@@MrChickadee Yes. I sent a little glimpse to your Instagram DMs.
Thank you for this informative video. I always learn something from you. My Dad and Grandfather always told me to lay the plane on the side. THANKS for clearing that up for me.
Another great video! Really informative and concise. I really like when you do these videos, showing how something that is essentially trash can be restored to its former glory and provide many more years of service. Great for the pocket book and the environment, not to mention providing the new owner with a sense of accomplishment when the old tool is all cleaned up and dialed in 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it!
These are very important videos. Keep up the good work!
Glad you think so!
You’re an excellent teacher. Thank you!
This really helps me out. I have several wooden and steel planes sitting on the corner bench waiting to be restored but never knew how to set them up. Now I have the urge to get them working again and use them alongside my power tools.
I Loved your videos simple and no rocket science in a world of technology your videos stands unique Hats of to you finally i subscribed
Another great video. Thanks from Ireland.
Many thanks!
Thank you for the indepth and clear explanation. I always have liked the wooden planes but was too intimated and also uneducated about them. Know I feel comfortable in finding one and giving it a go.
Another amazing video, you are my favorite person to watch on RUclips, keep it up, you're inspiring
You're the best!
Man. Thank you so much. I have very cheap 💩 metal planes (faithfull) and I was struggling with them for a long time. Avoiding using them. They are still crap, but after dressing up chip breaker as you have suggested it completely transform them to actually being useful. I was able to get the blade shaving sharp before, but it was not helpful and
the chip breaker thing completely changed the game. This is best tutorial with biggest impact on me I have seen. Thank you again. Keep up great work.
That is awesome! Glad it helped!
Always love the videos and anticipate the new ones. Just bought my first wooden plane and have cleaned up the iron. The tote was broken but I think I've fixed it. Can't wait to do more wood working.
Nice work!
Thanks A LOT for these videos. I've been thinking about even buying relatively expensive planes because I don't like buying twice, but this has convinced me I should try antique ones. I hope I find them around here.