Traditional Wooden Handplanes: How to Restore, Modify & Use Antique Planes, Plus a Bonus Section on Making New Planes in the Antique Style (Fox Chapel Publishing) Over 200 Photos & Illustrations

by Scott Wynn

Traditional Wooden Handplanes is the essential reference for hand tool enthusiasts! Learn how In a world of heavy and expensive handplanes, traditional wood handplanes are affordable, light in weight, low in friction, comfortable to use, and available in a wide variety of blade angles. Author and woodworking instructor Scott Wynn has been working with this versatile tool for four decades. In Traditional Wooden Handplanes he shows you how to make, modify, restore, and use antique planes. Scott reveals how traditional wood planes work, how to set up a flea market find, and how to tune up a new plane for peak performance. You'll learn about the different types and how to use them to their best advantage; which blade angles are best, which blade steel you might want to use, and finally, how to make your own set of planes using some modern techniques that simplify construction and improve performance.

Genres: Woodwork

204 pages, Paperback

Published March 6, 2018

Reviews

[Alex · Rating 5 out of 5]

En este libro encontrarás todo lo necesario para conocer y poner a punto un cepillo de carpintero de madera, de los tradicionales. A diferencia de otros libros donde el autor mete mucha paja y
cuenta cosas que no van a ningún lado, este va directamente al grano. Me ha parecido muy esclarecedor el apartado sobre los tipos de aceros. También toca otros temas como el labrado de maderas en bruto, cómo sujetar las piezas a trabar en el banco, cómo ajustar el cepillo para que funcione correctamente y en el último capítulo muestra cómo fabricarlos, pero es necesario una escopleadora.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well, there is nothing else you would need to know about planes. Well written and informative, anyone who is interested in woodworking tools needs this book. In imperial and metric measures this book is good for both unusually for an American author, brilliant.