5 Minute Hand Plane Sharpening | Woodworking Tool Tip
5 Minute Hand Plane Sharpening | Woodworking Tool Tip
In this video I show you how to get razor sharp hand planes in just 5 minutes.
I use a few tools to keep my planes sharp enough to shave with, and in this video I show you how i do it.
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– HoneRite #1, 125ml
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– Shapton Glass Stone 16000 Grit 5 mm
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– Low angle block plane
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Thanks John, very interesting!
Hi john, did you learn this from Rob Cosman?
I know that woodprix has the best woodworking plans ever.
more like "hand plane sharpening in 10 minutes and $200-300 worth of equipment"
Great video and tips John! Any tips on placing the blade back into the plane and getting the right depth of cut and even from side to side?
Ever try the scary sharp method to sharpen blades?
And, if you use the ruler trick, you dont have the flatten the entire back! Thats the whole point behind the ruler trick. So skip that step and go directly to the ruler trick.
just thought I’d say this, your efforts to increase your production quality has not gone unnoticed. sound, lighting, and editing have really improved in the past months. don’t stop doing what you’re doing! oh yeah, and this video was informative and helpful, too. ATB -Michael!
Sharpen in less than 5 minutes–makes 10 minute video 😆😆
Just kidding you this helped me out a lot thank you so much
Uh… This would take more than 5 minutes.
Thanks for sharing! This will help me sharpen my planes!
Great content! Thanks man! 🤘
Is that a new camera? The video seems sharper with more detail. I did put new contacts in so that could be it. Great video as always. Very informative.
Thank you for this video. I’ve watched MANY videos on how to sharpen a hand plane. I don’t posses a nice set of stones yet. Just a tri stone from wal-mart…yes wal-mart. However, by implementing some of your techniques, my blade is sharper than ever. Producing paper thin shavings, with ease. And for those of you whom can’t justify spending hundreds of dollars on jigs and stones…you don’t have to. You just have to know how to make what you do have, work.
John, I noticed that you are holding the plane at a slight angle (not parallel to the board you are planing). Is this by design? I’ve just started using hand tools in the last 6 months or so, and was curious about the technique.
great video thanks
Thank you John, my wife is my next project, I’m going to go home and punch her in the face.
Indication of “suction” on a sharpening has absolutely nothing to do with how flat you plane bad is and has everything to do with how much of a slurry you have created. The slurry is what makes the blade suck to the stone. For a blade to “suck” to another surface, both surfaces have to be 100% flat and a diamond stone if far from that! Hence all the diamond particles on the stone!
Nice work, do you think I could use hand plane this sharp for epoxy planing in order to avoid we sanding and the just polish?
The Veritas kig provides a secondary bevel if you turn on the knob
Thanks for sharing. It’s very helpful. Love your contents. Tq again.
Hi John, Just recently took a plane class at Woodcraft. I have the same low angle block plane and a low angle jack plane. They did teach us the ruler trick but the instructor said that a low angle plane should not have a microbevel on the backside because they are bevel up planes. Thoughts?
hey
I make a video for epoxy
keep on looking 🙂 have a nice day
haha what’s with all these people saying this would take longer than 5 minutes? Keep up the great work my man.
Can’t argue with results like that
Thanks man! Digging your vids!
There is just something so satisfying about getting those super thin shavings on a freshly honed plane. My dad gave me his old plane and I tuned it up. He borrowed it back for a project and was amazed at how well it worked, LOL. Great video!
Jesus, 16k sharpening stones are expensive…
Good video – thanks for sharing. Please don’t do this click bait crap and ads in the middle are annoying. I looked at one the other day – it must have had 6-7 ads. I don’t know if I could justify $149 for a ceramic 16,000 grit stone – that’s what Woodcraft charges for them. I didn’t have the courage to look at the 30,000 grit. High quality wood workers and furniture builders sharpened tools without this expense for centuries. And back when furniture was better made and done everyday. My grandfather built a lot of stuff..he would have had a heart attack on a price like that not to mention what was it $124 for the jig. Too rich for most people’s blood unless you use it to make money every day. Also, isn’t that pretty aggressive – Woodcraft says you have to be careful because they remove a lot of material fast. Helpful, informative but not in most people’s budget. Could be wrong – it wouldn’t be the first nor the last. 🙃
John. The point of the ruler trick (David Charlesworth), is to avoid having to flatten the whole back of the blade…..not to put a back bevel on it.
On the blade you showed, you should spend more time flattening it so that you have at least 1/8th of an inch at the tip flat, the sides are irrelevant. Once that’s done you don’t need to flatten again until you’ve sharpened it down beyond the 1/8t inch. Thereafter a few rubs after sharpening using the ruler trick as Rob does will maintain the flatness and remove the burr. You actually introduced a back bevel which changes the geometry of the cutting edge.
When stropping you need the strop on the bench like the stone, if you don’t maintain the angle you will blunt the blade you’ve just sharpened. You also need a sharpening paste or wax such as aluminum oxide and make a dozen or more passes still using your jig, but only the pull stroke. Have a look at my channel for a view of a chisel sharpened as I just described.
‘Thin’ shavings should be transparent. The knot that you avoided would have been a good example to plane and show the sharpness, especially with the block plane. Everyone’s on a learning curve mate. you’re well on the way. You have some lovely planes there, they are worth tuning well. Look up David Charlesworths ruler trick to see the inventor of it.
I’m confused about the step where you begin by rubbing the glass stone on the diamond stone. Since the glass stone is finer than the diamond stone, are not just scratching up your glass stone during this step?
Much longer than 5 minutes, headline lies.
Great video! how long do you sharpen for both stones to get the micro bevel?
Nice concise sharpening guide. I have to look into this whole strop thing. Not totally clear on what it’s even doing.