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Dave Chandler · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:21 pm Post subject: Truing the sole of your plane

I ran across this u-tube presentation, truing up the sole of a jack plane. I know its probably intuitive for most of us.
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Dave Chandler · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:22 pm Post subject: Truing plane

Forgot the link. Here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s7e4sHQiAs
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MANFIO · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:32 pm Post subject:

Interesting. Some will use sandpaper over a wet granite, the sandpaper will get stuck in the wet granite.

But if you get a good plane, you don't need to do that. I took my RECORD no. 7 plane to the machinist and he sent me it back without touching it because it was already true.
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violinarius · Member Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 171

Thanks for the link!

Here is a link to a good article on plane fettling.

http://home.comcast.net/~rexmill/planes101/tuneup/tuneup.htm

At the bottom of the page is a 6 page article by David Charlesworth.

Just click on the pages to blow them up.

Page 5 shows that you do not need the planes sole 100% flat. Just that certain areas have to be flat and in "plane".

Page 6 talks about the "ruler trick" which also saves time and abrasives.