A Woodworker’s Notebook
Jeff Gorman
Planing Notes
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Fundamentals
Truing and dimensioning a board
Grain
Finding its direction
Planing Ergonomics
How to avoid the dreaded droop
Fettling a Cast-Iron Plane
Improving a run-of-the-mill plane
Coping With Gnarly Grain
Shaving Aperture Geometry
Join the Flat Sole Brigade
For fanatics only? Read and decide
Plane Body Deflection
Pics to solve the riddle
Some Physical Data
Forces acting on a plane blade
Adjusting a Metal Plane
Less hit and miss than with a wooden plane
Adjusting a Wooden Plane
Hit and hope the blade does not move too far
Trueing the Sole of A Wooden Plane
Using another plane
How To Plane A Square Edge
The old hand's way, using a cambered edge
A Honing Jig for Plane Irons
Make it yourself
About Cap-Irons
(Chipbreakers) Tuning and adjusting
Making Laminated Plane Blades
From an old text book
Skitter and Chatter
Know the difference
What Happens When You Slew
Obvious pun avoided
Coping With Twist
A source of many problems
Rub Jointing
Extracts from a longer article
A Versatile Shooting Board
For panel joints, end grain and 45° mitres
A Ramped Shooting Board
for end grain. Drawings and photos
A Donkey's Ear Shooting Board
For box mitres and suchlike
Scraping the Sole of A Plane
Perfectionists will need to look elsewhere
Scraping Practicalities
A technique, for the average worker with limited facilities
Grit and Determination
To abrade the sole
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