On account of WayneC's: "Handplane Restoration #19...Citric Acid" Blog. This is My First Blog

Looks like it really did the trick!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

By Golly Panama, I think you did well; with the blog and the plane. Now sharpen her up and make some slick wood. I purchased all my hand planes on E-Bay except 2( I have 12 of 14 but use about 10) I don’t have the price of one of Tom Lie-Nielsen’s beauties in the whole lot. Adam Cherubini(of Popular Woodworking) said a mouthful when he told everyone to buy a $5 flea market special and learn to make it work. By the time you can afford the fancy plane you will have earned it but you’ll be in love with the ones you have and won’t see a need for it.
Panama, this fall take a few minutes and make a run over to Nashville and give My regards to Brown county. I wish I could see the trees again.

-- Thos. Angle

Panama, I just read Wayne’s blog that got you going on this. I would highly recomend Garrett Hack’s book on Hand Planes. It is great reference on these essential tools. I’d also recomend going to E-Bay and doing searchs such as wood plane, Stanley Plane, Sargent Plane and hand plane. There are usually 600 to 700 listings under Stanley Plane and more under wood plane. You will see every plane ever made in these listings. I’ve seen several Stanley Dovetail planes go for over $1000. Chute boards complete with the plane will bring $1100 up. However # 4 and 5 Stanley’s are all over the place and bringing $10 up. Same with #78 Stanley’s. You can get a great education for free by looking at the listings and then looking them up. One note; if you’re thinking there is a shortage of hand planes, think again. There are literally millions of them out there and many are in good usable shape.I’ve got Bailey’s and Sargents but Bedrocks are better. They all cut the wood and when properly tuned will do a great job for you. Happy wood working.

-- Thos. Angle

Imagine what it does to your stomach… and your TEETH. looks like the plane could take it though! Nice…

I haven’t seen any planes going for less than $40 so far – regardless of the condition, except for a few wooden ones that would need new wooden parts, and brand new metal parts, in short it’d be better to take a tip from Philly and start from scratch!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Panama. Great find and great recovery to a user. And like Thos said we’d like to see some shavings.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Hi Panama,

I don’t know where the concern came from in writting a blog. You did great.

Hard to believe that’s the same plane.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

I have this same plane and it needs work. Want to swap?

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Thos & Karson. This is my next project. _(....see some shavings) I have accumulated about 15 planes to “play with” in the past couple of weeks. All for less than $8 each on the average. I have a whole bunch_ of blades to be sharpened. All of them so dull they couldn’t cut paper let alone wood.

I came up with a ”Firestone” Plane. Anyone heard of that one? (No it doesn’t have radial tread on it.) Seems to be a good one.

Thos, I read Adam’s (PW) article and away I went to find Fleas! I found that inflation hit this year. Also, Thos, thanks a bunch for the heads up on the book. I’ll look it up right away. Nashville is a great place, I’m only 17 miles away from the park. Unfortunately the politics are going rabid over there. They are loosing a lot of the “old retailers” lately. Of course this hasn’t changed the tree color(s).....however is is changing the shape of the downtown “flavor”.

Scottb, I just had to really start looking, then start barganing…Sometimes a really long process. But I didn’t give up. I went back the next day before they had to close up and haul it all back home. It worked, this time.

Thanks to all!

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Come on Giz...I’ll send you some of this Citric Acid though!

Thanks Lee!

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Wow. Looks like your off to a good start. I’ve been leaving the parts in the acid just long enough for it to remove the rust. For me it normally takes about 2 hours for it to work.

Also, Michale Dunbar has a good book (out of print) on restoring old tools. There are amazon.com links to this one and Garret Hacks book in my blog entry on handplane related books.

http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/WayneC/blog/675

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Wow! Thanks for this post. I have a set of fostner bits that are completly rusted and I was wondering how to clean them. This blog taught me a lot, and I would have never known this was your first blog. Very well done. Good job.

-- A man who moves mountains starts one stone at a time.

Thanks Wayne! I just got Dunbar’s book (Thursday-last) via Amazon.

Aubster..It will work on rust….Drill bits or planes.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

That looks great – and very good tips! I would have not known where to start… looks like I have another hobby! haha

-- Brian, Alabaster, AL

Nice job on the restoration.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Thanks Os and Roy. I’ve started on three more planes more this morning! Wayne told about 2 hours, so I gotta get back to the “brew”.

Again thanks to all!

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Checking in. Any update on your other planes? Have you sharpened this one yet?

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

I work weekends Wayne and will have more pictures by mid week, I hope. I get off tomorrow and plan on finishing a couple by taking “final” pictures. I’ll have more time when I am off Friday.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Sounds great looking forward to seeing your results. I just won a couple of Plough planes on ebay. I think they will be next on my list. Have to wait for them to get here from the UK. Planes are almost as much as a slippery slope as festool or wood turning I’m guessing.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Wayne I just bought a small sharpener from my workplace (Sears).

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00921174000P?vName=Tools&keyword=Sharpener

I might just imput a blog if this helps me out. Cost, with the Craftsman Club Last week, was about $29.99 plus tax. Only thing(s) I have used this on were hand chisels. There is no jig for holding a planer blade so it is all hand control. Works pretty well with chisels. Have you seen this one?

On line reviews on Sears.com says that the stone wobbles, or locks up. I have had neither problem. I would suggest that one should take it back if they encounter these mentioned problems.

On-line Description:
Perfect for light-duty sharpening to keep a fine edge on knives, chisels or bits. 120V, 60 Hz., .7amp motor delivers a smooth performance under load. Two adjustable, multi-position tool rests improve accessibility to the sharpening wheel and expand the range of sharpening applications. Large footpads dampen vibrations and increase stability during operation.

It is a slow turning unit.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

After seeing your success and Wayne’s I want to try this. I got an old rasp (big one) and some saw sets at a flea market for a couple bucks. The rasp is so ate up with rust that is pointless to try to use it. Thank you both for sharing this.

Let us know how it turns out Buck.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

I´m going to try it.
Thanks for sharing.

-- Jiri