Astounding no one carries a plane anymore.

[waho6o9]

Maybe this is sacrilegious, but what would be the right type of plane for tuning 3/4" plywood edges?

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An edge plane will tune up 3/4" plywood edges quit nicely.

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[derekcohen]

Maybe this is sacrilegious, but what would be the right type of plane for tuning 3/4" plywood edges?

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It is not the plane, but the blade. O1 steel will not hold up for long. I would look for a HSS (M2) steel blade (Mujingfang make them for woodies and some of these can be used on Stanley planes - I have on in a #3), or something high in Vanadium (I think ECE do these).

I keep aside a block plane for plywood and MDF.

As far as hand tools being better than power tools on site, keeping in mind that I only work in a workshop, I still wonder about rebates, grooves, chamfering and hinge mortices. I would rather do these with hand tools than power tools.

Regards from Perth

Derek

 

[Lemwise]

In my experience PM-V11 holds up very nicely on plywood edges. The T10 carbon steel blade in the Quangsheng LABP plane that Workshop Heaven sells also does a decent job on plywood edges.

 

[demographic]

Bench planes -- blade bevel is DOWN

Yeah, well apart from the bevel UP ones though eh?

 

[mrrhum]

I wouldn't be without my Lee Valley low-angle block plain, and let me put in a word for scrub planes. I'm surprised at how much I use mine.

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[Gr8trim4u]

It seems there are more people out there then what i thought. I guess it is just my area or maybe the crews i am running into.

 

[HarveyWildes]

I just did some trim in my kitchen and used a shooting plane to put a 45 degree miter on the corners.  Wow!  Best mitered corners I've ever done, as close to perfect as I can imagine.

 

[Bob D.]

I carry a 6" block plane and use it all the time. Its amazing the number of off jobs it excels at. And as u mentioned i dont have to go outside to the saws or hop down off a scaffolding for a small scribe or adjustment. I wouldnt leave home wihout it.

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One big plus is the battery is always charged.

I use hand planes and hand saws all the time. I thought everybody did.

 

[mikeyr]

I used a plane this weekend for the first time in years, I made a mistake and cut something about 1/8" too wide and had already changed the setup on the table saw by the time I noticed it.  I got out my plane and made some shavings.  I even took the shavings into the house and showed my wife, explaining that it had been many years since I had made shavings that nice.  She laughed...but I did get some personal satisfaction from using a hand tool, I have been using power for so long.

 

[tony_sheehan]

Bob D- a lot of people do still use hand saws and hand planes all, or at least a lot of the time but remember, you're on the FOG here so it's not necessarily representative.
Let's face it,  you'll get a better finish from a No 3 or 4 smoother when properly set up than you will from, say, an EHL65 and a sander (assuming absolute quality is your goal without the constraints of working to a time schedule)

 

[Bob D.]

You're right Tony.

 

[pingvinlakrits]

Still carry a hand plane in my kit - not a frequent user but some sharp chisels and a small hand plane has saved the day too many times to leave any of them behind.

 

[andyman]

Block and smoothing in my basic kit

 

[Harry1561]

I always carry a block plane and Jack plane, still use them on a regular basis  8)I

 

[Billy stray]

I use an ehl65 to hog off most of a Scribe but my Nielsen block plane is always the last couple passes

 

[JakobProgsch]

When reading the title I thought the "carrying" was meant as in no shop carries them. Which was the issue I ran into as a hobbyist when I was trying to buy some planes. Apparently no one in Switzerland sells anything but those consumable blade planes. I had to order them from Germany.

 

[curiousdork]

One of the guys in my shop needed to remove around  3/32nd of material.  Instead of using a hand plane he spent nearly half an hour setting up the table saw for the cut.  Me?  A minute on my LV LA block plane and it's done.  I'm a newbie woodworker who started with tools and progressing to hand tools.  I have a myriad of power tools for rough and final dimensioning, but my go-to tools for precision are my chisels and hand planes.

 

[Goneshootin88]

Sometimes I pull out my low angle block plane just to give the customers a show. They always make a comment about "real craftsmanship." Little do they realize, I'm just too lazy to walk back outside to the saw.

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[Macintyre]

I'm an old guy, and I've been pushing a plane for fifty years. I've got a table saw, a jointer, etc., but when I'm a slosh shy of a fit (r a square), I can be done and moving on with another part of the job before I would even break out the electrics.

 

[curiousdork]

I'm an old guy, and I've been pushing a plane for fifty years. I've got a table saw, a jointer, etc., but when I'm a slosh shy of a fit (r a square), I can be done and moving on with another part of the job before I would even break out the electrics.

My first foray into woodworking involved the use of power tools.  Since I buy my lumber from local sawyer, it's often rough and requires flattening.  I've found that a jointer is indiscriminate in how much material it takes off.  When building a bookshelf for a friend I found that one of my pieces was cut unevenly on the bandsaw mill resulting in one side being thinner than the other.  To combat more material being removed I used my low angle jack and went to town where I needed material removed.  I managed to correct the issue, removed the twist, and flattened the board.

It's not that I think power tools are bad, but when you spend 20 minutes setting up a table saw when you need to remove 1/16th of materia, using a handplane is much, much faster.  I still use the table saw to dimension pieces but a lot of my flattening and smoothing are done through hand tools.  I'm looking forward to getting a plow plane, a router plane, and a rabbet/shoulder plane to do things like dadoes.