How to Use a Smoothing Plane | Woodworking
How to Use a Smoothing Plane | Woodworking
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The smoothing planes, the jointer, the jack plane, these have a few more parts and pieces in them, and it’s useful to look at these, too, just to understand how they work. The one extra piece that these have is a chip breaker on top. That’s an extra piece of metal that sits on top of the blade. The blade’s on the bottom here. Chip breaker’s on top. The purpose of that piece is twofold. It’s to hold the blade in a more rigid way in the plane, because it’s a longer blade and it keeps the blade from chattering. The other purpose of this is to prevent tear-out. When this is running along the wood the blade’s cutting the wood, and there’s a tendency for the wood to tear out. This part of the assembly here prevents that from happening.
Once you get this set up properly and in the plane the way to use these is very similar to the block plane except these planes have a two handed operation. You can see there’s a knob on the front and handle on the back. Because these planes are bigger and they’re doing harder work we’ll start on this edge, but they generally are doing more difficult work on the face of a board.
You have to really put your whole body into using these planes. I recommend you stand with your feet spread apart. Put most of your weight on the hand holding the knob. When you’re ready to go you’re just going to rock from your back foot to your front foot, and use your body weight to push this plane forward. Now the goal is, of course, try to keep this as level as possible as you’re going across the wood with some pressure down on the front. The last part of this procedure is when you get to the end lighten up a bit on your hand holding this knob, because you don’t want to round over the end of the board.
So, let’s try it. Let’s do a demonstration. You can see if you just have a nice follow through and you lift up at the end, rock from one foot to the other, you get a nice, smooth shaving. That’s really your goal is to see ribbons of thin wood like this coming off. You can see the result on the wood. It’s just a really clean, glassy surface, way better than a saw or sandpaper could do. That’s one of the real benefits of learning how to use these planes is that you can pretty much throw out your sandpaper after you master these.
Now, on an edge that’s pretty easy. Let’s look at doing a face, because that’s the other use of the smoothing and jack planes. If you don’t have a vise and a workbench style thing like this you can just clamp your boards down onto the table. It’s pretty easy.
One of the big functions of this plane, like I was saying before, is to flatten out the boards. Often you’ll have twists in boards, and one corner might be higher than another. Let’s say these are two high corners and the board’s twisted. You can’t really do any work with this on the machines until it’s nice and flat. So, flattening it down is one really important function of these. The way to do it is just how we were doing that edge. I’m just going to rock into the motion of shaving that down, and you’ll have a much flatter board.
Just to wrap up, these types of planes, you’ve got the smoothing plane, the jack plane, and the jointer, may not be something you’ll purchase right away as a beginner. But, down the road, you’ll definitely want to get familiar with these.
That’s all for planes.
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This is an excellent presentation, full of good information. Thank you for sharing your talent.
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Who is this instructor? I really appreciate how well she explains things
What are the differences in sizes for? Width for wide area coverage? Length for longer boards?
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Excellent demo. Admirably clear instructions.
Very helpful. Good presentation.
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Yes, it may be called a smoothing plane, but the title is very misleading. It should have been called "How to Use a Hand Plane". The only advice she gives on specifically using a smoothing plane is purely incidental. For the first part she is showing a jointing operation, and the second part is showing a flattening operation. A smoothing plane is used to finish a surface after all other operations have been done and there is a lot more to smoothing than just running the plane across the board.
Dump the music.
Please get rid of the background music. It’s drowning out your words so I can’t understand what you’re saying.
Omg push the damn plane across the wood already
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NEVER EVER put your plane down like this 02:05 Please lay it on its side As my old Woodworking teacher used to say
You always lay a plane down on its side not on the cutting edge, I remember this from school in the 1960s !
Great video. Short and sweet. Clearly you know the subject.
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What kind of wood were you using? Can you use planes to round corners and edges?
ITS CALLED A HAND PLANE. NOT A SMOOTHING PLANE!
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You are wrong Bridleclub, all four she has there are Hand Planes.
The Largest is a Jointer Plane.
The second largest is a Jack Plane
Third largest is a Smoothing Plane
And the smallest is a Block Plane
great instructional video.
Ypu should not keep your hand planes on the table like this woman does, because the weight of the plane can damage the iron. But if you really want to, the blade should be fully retracted.
مرحبا ممكن الاشتراك بقناتى وانا هردها ودعمى
I am sure you will find a good way to do this on the Woodprix website.
Actually a chip braker (metal plate attached to plane iron) is not preventing a tear out, it is the sole of the plane and the troth opening. And it is not the smoother planes function, to straighten a board. It is a job for scrub plane and jointer plane.
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very wonderful and really helpful series of videos
I’m too grateful
thanx alot
I have watched a few of your videos. I love how detailed you are. Please keep up the good work.
A plane without wings. Simply wow!!
This was very useful. Thank you for sharing this.
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Nice job youtube because I was looking for this.
Rather lacking in detail so hard to pick up on anything new. At least mention blade sharpness & avoiding tear out. In the jack plane assembly I missed exactly how the chip breaker is fitted, how far from blade edge etc. Overall too short & too limited
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