Advice On Choosing, Tuning, Sharpening, and Using This Classic Handtool

With a sharp, well-tuned handplane you can quickly adjust the fit of parts or joints, flatten a panel or produce a glass-smooth surface for finishing. But learning to use this classic handtool can be something of a challenge. This book offers advice on how to choose handplanes and tune and sharpen them for top performance. There is also in-depth information on specialty planes and spokeshaves.

What's inside:

• Choosing the right bench planes
• Flattening wide panels
• Planing difficult grain
• Making and using a shooting board
• Using rabbet planes
• Tuning up a spokeshave
• Making wooden planes

Hand Tool Essentials contains articles from all of our regular contributors during the last decade, including Lonnie Bird, David Charlesworth , Adam Cherubini, Don McConnell, Frank Klausz and Christopher Schwarz. The 43 chapters cover a topics like, how to assemble your first kit of hand tools at a flea market for less than $100 and tune them up.