Downsizing

[Coen]

the hand planes are fun and great exercise.

I never understood the obsession with hand planes. In my book that falls in the same category as 'whole day watching TV because an old guy gets a new hat'.

 

[Michael Kellough]

If you like the grain of wood it will never be clearer than after a swipe with a sharp plane. That goes for the figure too.

 

[wmarazita]

the hand planes are fun and great exercise.

I never understood the obsession with hand planes. In my book that falls in the same category as 'whole day watching TV because an old guy gets a new hat'.

I use hand planes mainly to clean up machine marks, rather than sanding (which, in my book, is way worse than watching the old guy get a new hat!).
For example, the machine marks left on the edge of a board after running it across a power jointer can be removed with one or two passes of a block plane in a matter of seconds leaving a glass finish and crisp edges. This is pretty much impossible to do with sanding. After I did this operation a total of one time, I was hooked on the value of hand planes in a "blended" shop.

 

[sancho57]

go through the search function and find matt byington. He has done just what you want to do and has a complete workshop and builds beautiful furninture

[member=67555]mattbyington[/member]

havent seen you here for a while, but this is right up your alley.