| This blog is written by Dan | 35 entries so far |
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #25: Very rough horned wood plane given a new life.
Why bother taking the time to restore this plane? It is not worth anything and you can find many ...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #24: A collection of before/after photos of planes I have restored
Rather then doing a separate blog on all of these I figured it would be easier to just post a blo...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #23: Stanley #34 completely restored. The longest jointer that Stanley made.
Its been a while since my last blog on plane restoration. Over the past year I have been trying t...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #22: Stanley #72 Chamfer Plane... Completely Restored
The Stanley #72 Chamfer plane was on my list of Stanley specialty planes that I wanted to own. I ...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #21: Adding a new sole to wood bottom plane. Stanley #23 restored w new sole
In my last blog I showed how I added an inlay piece to close up the throat of one of my transitio...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #20: Tuning a Transitional wood plane... Adding inlay to close the throat
I have come to really like the Transitional style wood planes both for their looks and their feel...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #19: An Extremely Rough Stanley #22 brought back to life...
This was a rough one. Looking at it on the outside it looked pretty decent but once I took a peak...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #18: Keen Kutter KK5 Restored.. New Redwood Tote & Look at blade thickness
This was a fun plane to restore and tune for several reasons. First of all when I got this plane ...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #17: A welded Stanley #4 restored to a great user
Whether you are a collector or a user of planes I think its safe to say that no one is interested...
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Recycling/Reclaiming a bunch of Redwood lumber
Last summer a guy I know was going to be tearing an old deck of of his house and replacing it wit...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #16: Stanley Bailey #2 Restored
I hadn’t planed on buying the #2 sized plane because of the price and the fact that its sma...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #15: Discovering the history and wonders of an old plane/tool
When I first took interest in restoring old planes and tools I didn’t pay much thought to t...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #14: Stanley Bailey #4 1/2 cleaned, tuned and upgraded to super user plane
Just when I thought I had all of the bench planes that I would ever need I found the 4 1/2. When ...
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My first sweet garage sale old tool find this year. Disston saw w nice etch
I say this is my first sweet old tool garage sale find this year because I plan on finding many c...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #13: Old woodworking square restored... A little break from the planes
I have restored mostly just hand planes but I do sometimes find other old tools that I will resto...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #12: Stanley Bailey #4 Restored w/ new premium blade & chip breaker
This #4 smoothing plane is the most fine tuned of all my planes. I also upgraded it by replacing ...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #11: Stanley #48 Tongue & Groove plane restoration complete w lots of pics. SWEET!
This is the first specialty use plane that I have restored back to user condition. It was a long ...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #10: Stanley #103 Block/Pocket Plane restored and upgraded! w pics
This small pocket sized plane is probably used more then any of the planes in my shop. The plane ...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #9: Stanley Bailey # 7 complete restore w pics!
Ahhhh the No. 7 my toughest and most challenging restoration yet. I won this big hunk of rusted m...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #8: Complete restore of my Stanley #5 Jack Plane w finished pics
Here is yet another one of my plane restorations. I don’t have a before picture of this pla...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #7: Stanley Bailey #3 complete restore w before & after pics. I am on a role!
Just the other day I posted a blog on the completed restoration of my Stanley #6. Well last night...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #6: Stanley Bailey #6 complete restore w pics!
After many weeks of hunting and bidding on Ebay I was finally able to win an auction for a Stanle...
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Hand Planes - Never to early to get started
This winter I did most all my hand plane restoring and work inside my house. I guess I should hav...
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Jointer/Planer Combo... Tool Gloat!
I have had my own shop set up at my house for a little over a year now. During that time I have b...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #5: Tip on replacing Stanley Bailey plane parts
This is just a quick blog with a tip for other guys like me who like restoring old planes. Som...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #4: Sanding and Polishing the body and metal parts
In my first blog of this series I talked about removing the rust using Evapo-Rust. The following ...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #3: Re-painting the plane body
Its been a little bit since I have added to this series but I have been very busy as of late. Thi...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #2: Cleaning Brass and making it shine!
Many old planes and tools featured brass elements such as screw caps, adjustment wheels ext ext. ...
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Restoring Hand Planes.. My methods #1: Intro and first step of cleaning & rust removal
There are many good blogs, articles and web pages out there that give you all you need to know ab...
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Hand Planes - Never had interest in picking one up, now I cant put them down
I only started getting serious about woodworking this year. When I was setting up my shop I had a...
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Clamps! Finley adding some quality to my collection
I am still newer to woodworking and a while back when I was starting to look at other shops onlin...
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Hi, my name is Dan and I am a wood hoarder
I am one of those guys who tends to collect wood, even if its not in the best of shape or size. I...
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9 Dollar Workbench project #2: Pretty much finished with work table..
In my first blog on this topic I talked about buying an old steel desk/table from a resale place ...
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9 Dollar Workbench project #1: Part 1 - From old steel desk to nice looking work table
I am one of those people who loves to find good deals on old tools and furniture that needs to be...
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My Radial Arm Saw- Not just a cross cut saw
Ever since I bought my first house a few years ago I had always wanted a nice sized workshop in m...
