Hand Plane Set Up – IN SEVEN SIMPLE STEPS

Hand Plane Set Up – IN SEVEN SIMPLE STEPS

Woodwork video. How to tune up or set up a hand plane in 7 easy steps.

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50 Comments

  1. Chris Ungaro on January 20, 2022 at 10:54 pm

    THANK YOU! concise without all of the uh, um, and ahhh, of other videos. Not boring like the dull techno dudes.



  2. William Heron on January 20, 2022 at 10:55 pm

    Hi , I just wanted to let you know how helpful I found this plane setting tutorial to be. I have been messing around with my stanley bailey for months. Now it works fine, even better than I would have hoped for. Most Grateful…



  3. Phil Pell on January 20, 2022 at 10:55 pm

    Thanks Rag n Bone! Great skills 🙌🏼



  4. Beveryafraid Ornot on January 20, 2022 at 10:56 pm

    What happens when the adjusting nut comes out and never wants to go back onto the bolt?



  5. Amjad Hani on January 20, 2022 at 10:57 pm

    I learned everything I needed from this single video. Thank you very much. Liked and subscribed



  6. Mr X on January 20, 2022 at 10:58 pm

    I tested my blade by dropping a hair onto it and it split in 2



  7. Adam Fool on January 20, 2022 at 10:59 pm

    thanks, much appreciated



  8. Ian Tarbet on January 20, 2022 at 11:01 pm

    Cheers, thank you.



  9. Tiffiny Wood on January 20, 2022 at 11:01 pm

    Awesome video! great for teaching resource thank you!



  10. Shari T on January 20, 2022 at 11:01 pm

    Thanks for posting this, very easy to follow, very helpful!



  11. mark broad on January 20, 2022 at 11:02 pm

    I used a belt sander to speed up the flattening



  12. Myra Harvey on January 20, 2022 at 11:03 pm

    Brilliant, I’m very new to woodwork, so thank you for making it easy on an old female person 🤗



  13. Dennis Mumo on January 20, 2022 at 11:03 pm

    Amazing very informative video ive learnt alot about hand planes bravo lad be blessed



  14. Chris Johnson on January 20, 2022 at 11:06 pm

    That was really useful, straightforward, comprehensive… and no complicated or expensive ideas… thank you… I’m going into my shed to reform my planes today!!



  15. Steve Hills on January 20, 2022 at 11:08 pm

    Very useful video, thanks. Thanks.



  16. Nicholas Vale on January 20, 2022 at 11:08 pm

    Easy to follow . Very useful



  17. 123tothewaist 456totheshoulders on January 20, 2022 at 11:09 pm

    What do you do when a staple or nail gouges the plane sole?



  18. Adrian Barreto on January 20, 2022 at 11:12 pm

    Thanks.. That was a great run through with the planes



  19. Roger Green on January 20, 2022 at 11:12 pm

    Thanks soooooo much for this. I’m a hobbyist and you explained much more than I thought there was . Cheers mate and thanks again.



  20. Braden Polley on January 20, 2022 at 11:13 pm

    All the necessary information without unnecessary explanation. Thank you



  21. Chris Rogers on January 20, 2022 at 11:15 pm

    3:22 — pew pew pew! take that, rebels!



  22. david tom on January 20, 2022 at 11:18 pm

    Bless you, great job really.



  23. Samantha Burgess on January 20, 2022 at 11:19 pm

    Very very helpful. Thank you



  24. Calvin Mondrago on January 20, 2022 at 11:19 pm

    That was great, many thanks!



  25. William Heron on January 20, 2022 at 11:19 pm

    Hey I just noticed…..what a great site as well Thanks Again..



  26. chevy truck on January 20, 2022 at 11:21 pm

    great video, tons of useful information with minimal fluff. thank you sir



  27. Waratah David on January 20, 2022 at 11:23 pm

    Great work. Only thing I would have added is take the frog out and clean the area under.



  28. Maryjo Cookson on January 20, 2022 at 11:23 pm

    good honest instruction, not flash, gets to the point, easy to understand, loved it!



  29. Manikandan Ganesh on January 20, 2022 at 11:24 pm

    Brilliant video. Exactly what I wanted.



  30. KipIngram on January 20, 2022 at 11:26 pm

    4:40 – Another (more fundamental) cause of jamming is for the chip breaker to "make contact" with the iron away from the chip breaker’s front edge. The angle at which its bevel is ground affects this. You want the very, VERY front edge of the breaker to be the first part of it that touches the iron, and when you have that you can put it insanely close to the tip of the iron and you won’t get jamming. This is the preferred arrangement when you’re setting up the iron for smoothing. If your chip breaker is incorrectly ground and you’re getting jams, then you can ALSO alleviate them by opening up the mouth, but that detracts from the quality of your operation for smoothing.

    To get the breaker ground this way, flatten it in the way the video describes, but hold the back end of the breaker very low – even lower than the surface of your sharpening stones if you can. This removes more material back away from the edge and ensure that material isn’t there to make first contact. Anyway, the rule of thumb I’ve heard is to have the throat about double the shaving thickness you want. So if you want 0.001" shavings, you can go with as little as 0.002" throat. That’s a WHOLE HECK of a lot less than 2mm. 🙂 See Paul Sellers’s videos on plane setup for more on this.



  31. Anthony Warner on January 20, 2022 at 11:27 pm

    Thanks, very informative. Only had my Stanley plane 45 Years and now know how to set it up properly.



  32. Eric Williams on January 20, 2022 at 11:30 pm

    Well, damn….my cheap planes don’t have all those fancy adjustments on them.
    Still a very informative video.



  33. Lou R on January 20, 2022 at 11:30 pm

    excellent presentation on basics of sharpening a plane! THANKS!!



  34. Mark K on January 20, 2022 at 11:30 pm

    Great job! I bought a download on how to rehab a handplane by Christopher Schwartz, the Jimi Hendix of handplanes, and followed it to a tee, but still couldn’t get the plane to cut properly. That’s not a criticism of Schwartz, I must’ve been not adjusted something properly. I watched your video and it solved the problem in a few minutes, it cuts like a dream! Thanks for posting! Mark



  35. NARAYAN550 on January 20, 2022 at 11:30 pm

    Many thanks



  36. UDIDIT Driver Training on January 20, 2022 at 11:30 pm

    Thanks for this. A very clear and concise explanation. 👍🏼



  37. John Palfrey on January 20, 2022 at 11:31 pm

    What an excellent video. Thank you.



  38. Roger Cowart on January 20, 2022 at 11:33 pm

    Great video. Thanks for sharing!!!



  39. Foo S. on January 20, 2022 at 11:33 pm

    Great video. Straight forward and to the point. Thanks!



  40. Vincent Fouré on January 20, 2022 at 11:34 pm

    Very useful. I got Stanley 5 I think and it is all out of line



  41. noel patrick on January 20, 2022 at 11:38 pm

    Great tutorial,,,, simple yet tons of info,,,,



  42. HV's Blog on January 20, 2022 at 11:40 pm

    I was great lesson… Today. .



  43. Mansoor Ali Sait on January 20, 2022 at 11:41 pm

    No waste of time at all. Straight to the point. Everything one needs to know about a wood plane is here in this video! Thanks a lot!



  44. peedublyou on January 20, 2022 at 11:43 pm

    Nice, straightforward, fast-paced overview. Just the refresher I needed. Thanks!



  45. Russell G on January 20, 2022 at 11:45 pm

    watching you using your well setup planes at the end was worth the watch alone, look at that smooth action, lovely!



  46. Steve Larsen on January 20, 2022 at 11:46 pm

    Very good video. Thank you very much.



  47. MarcosElMalo2 on January 20, 2022 at 11:46 pm

    Thank you for this straight-to-the-point video. I recently purchased a cheap and poorly made Stanley #5 (looks a lot like your Record). I’ve been flattening the sole, 10 minutes at a time, over the past few days (that is, working it for ten minutes x4 or 5 times each day). I’m glad I started with 80 grit sandpaper! The high spot is straight down the center, and the area around the mouth was also quite high. I’m finally getting close to perfectly flat. It’s been tempting to use a lot of force, but I’m letting the weight of the plane do the work.

    I hadn’t taken a good look at the knife until today, and it’s filled me with a bit of despair. It’s not straight (the edge is irregular and not at a right angle) when held against a square.



  48. pradeep gnanaprakasam on January 20, 2022 at 11:46 pm

    Excellent walk-thru. Thank you.



  49. Tim List on January 20, 2022 at 11:50 pm

    I am new to this at 63 years young. Thanks for the video. I have two old ones from my father in law, a sargent and one smaller one without a name. I suspect they are antiques.



  50. Chen Mitton on January 20, 2022 at 11:52 pm

    I recommend this Woodworking Chamfering Trimming Planer: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08THFTW9G . The tool performs as hoped. I have used it on some small projects to add a finished look. It’s well built and should get a lot of use. Great value.