you fellas just don't talk about hand planes enough !

[JDarvall]

well, you just don't.

Burning my eyeballs out I do, searching for a thread on them....all I ever see is powertool threads.....triton this, domino that (still don't even know what a domino is !) .....Went through 8 pages the other day looking for something INTERESTING to talk about.....but nothing but powertool crap and Al's mower stories.

I mean, why you bothering with powertools anyway. In a few years, when the oil runs out, how you gonna run em.....eh EH !

[Ashore]

In a few years, when the oil runs out, how you gonna run em.....eh EH !

Batteries mate Batteries but with no oil how you gonna stop yours from rusting...eh EH!

[Iain]

Here you go, become a Domino Darksider
http://www.ehow.com/how_9241_play-dominoes.html

[Mirboo]

Batteries mate Batteries but with no oil how you gonna stop yours from rusting...eh EH!

Lanolin.

[E. maculata]

I can remember a time, we shall call the "plane period" where for quite some time not much more was discussed here. During this period I fell even further down the slippery slope of regression, and started persuing all matter of weird old steel. Fortunately this period ended and was replaced by the hand cut dovetail era........:confused:

[Clinton1]

Actually, Jake, I've got another weird old woodie plane I'm trying to name, but with no digi camera I've been holding off trying to type a description of it....
with that and all the words from the language I've been learning for the last week running around my head - I'd much prefer to sit back and read what others have to say.
My heads a bit full at the moment (rude comments on what it is full of is not allowed!).

[Mirboo]

I reckon hand cut dovetails have had their day. Let's lead a resurrection of the "plane period".

[craigb]

Well I reckon that the DeHavilland Comet was a much underated plane.

Sure it used to suffer catostrophic decompression but it was a very good looking beast.

I particularly liked how the motors wree mounted inboard of the wings and really close to the fuselage.

It was also 7 years before the 707.

So, which is your favorite plane?

[Lignum]

so, which is your favorite plane?

I have always enjoyed driving across the nullarbor plain

[Ashore]

The 747

[jmk89]

A couple of reasons why I haven't posted much about hand planes (on the other kind of planes, I always loved the Fokker Friendship dual turbo prop and my only flight on a DC-3 operating a commercial flight (during the pilots' strike of 1989) was one of my planespotter highlights):

1. I bought the handplane book and before asking a question here, I look for the answer there.
2. If it isn't there, a couple of searches on the WWF will often find it (one search is just to look through Jake's threads or posts.....). This prevents being 'flamed' by the Grumpy Old Men of the Forums who lie in wait to post "This has been discussed Brazilians of times before..Do a search" - once bitten, twice shy.
3. Though profile cutting etc with a plane looks very possible from esp Jake's postings, this is where my darkside tendencies give out - the right (sharp) cutter in the table router is the way to go for me (I do hold a little wake with a suitable bottle of red afterwards for the dead electrons ).
4. I enjoy reading about Jake and others' adventures in plane land, but until I retire from fulltime work, I am unlikely to really emulate any of them - until then I just have to keep a small range of Stanleys sharp and in tune and I'm afraid that - aside from saying that using the WASP for sharpening has worked well for me - there is little I can add to what has already been said on the Forum.

Sorry to be discouraging - it's not meant to be. And this is not just an issue for hand planes, it's just that it is one of the areas where I like reading the stuff, but as for having a contribution to make...well, it's likely to be rare.

Cheers

Jeremy

[ernknot]

I gotta Makita hand plane with a really really sharp whizzing blade. Well I got to push it along so it's a hand plane.

[MikeK]

Jake,

From my own experience, I started woodoworking with powertools primarily because of the perception that power seemed easier that handtools. Once you go down this track, the discussion is inevitably around powertools. However, I'm now at the point where I am dabbling in the darkside (I've got 4 handplanes). Problem is, I don't really have the skills to use them properly. . I'll keep muddling along, but that's why no handplane posts from me.

Regards,
Mike.

[silentC]

This topic of why we don't talk about hand planes enough has been discussed before.

BTW I left my LV low angle block plane out of it's box for a week and it's gone all rusty. Bloody salt air :mad:

[sea dragon]

Just for a bit more plane talking, why are some women described as "plane"? (Do not correct spelling). It cannot be because their features need planing and they are never the type who have been smoothed and polished to a finished product?
And why are men never described as plane?