Page 2 of 2

Re: Hand planing thin wood

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2018 1:05 pm
by Dick Hutchings
I've done it a time or two :lol:

Re: Hand planing thin wood

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:57 am
by Matthew Lau
Hey OP,

Get it to work yet?

I'm going to get back to guitar building too...which means thicknessing by hand since I don't own a thickess sander or a drill press with adjustable table lift (Walker Turner, it's HEAVY).

I plan to make some Chinese style handplanes for doing the thicknessing with a Hock blade and maple...the Chinese planes allow pushing and pulling fairly comfortably, and are less fussy than Japanese planes. The HNT Gordon and mujingfang planes are good examples.

For workholding, I will use holdfasts and a price of wood overtop.

Re: Hand planing thin wood

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:28 pm
by Dick Hutchings
Well, since I started this thread, a lot has changed. Screw the hand tools, I bought a bandsaw and a Supermax 19-38 drum sander. Got the sander on sale while it was out of stock and now it's 150.00 more. Yay for me. But I'm still waiting for it.

Re: Hand planing thin wood

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2018 3:14 pm
by Matthew Lau
Dude! Great sander.

I envy you. I'm hoping to make some planes for thicknessing.
http://myplace.frontier.com/~nostberg/c ... /step5.htm

Except mine will be chinese style (pull and push okay)