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The 30 degree bevel and the (not really all that) large mouth should be ok. What kind of wood are you planing? Maybe start with something soft like white pine and see if it works. My first guesses...

I have a stanley 63 (round bottom) and 64 (flat). These days I've been using the 64 a lot for various smoothing of curved surface tasks. Also comes in handy when building random things for the kids...

I think this thread is great! I'm learning a lot from the discussion and video. Thanks Kees.

I got tennis elbow (outside of the elbow) a while back playing... golf :-). After fighting it for a while I found an exercise for it called the "Tyler Twist" that helped a lot. The internet has a...

George - how do you bend the tips? Pliers?

Physical stuff gets mass produced these days so most of us just don't need to make things. So it's only natural that skills with hand tools have declined. It isn't because we are any less skilled,...

I bought a cheapo slow speed grinder that I wasted many hours trying to balance. Never could get it to stop vibrating like crazy so now it sits on a shelf in the garage. I "fixed" the problem by...

There are several comments to weight the toe when starting and then the heel when ending which is important. If you do it the other way around the plane will climb up onto the start of board and fall...

Paul Sellars has some blog posts and free videos on building a nice mallet (search for "Paul Sellars mallet"). I used his plans and instructions when building mine and am really happy with the way it...

I think if you are fine around liquor you should be good with shellac and everclear. I used it on a tea caddy I built for my mom that I wanted to be food safe. Supposedly shellac is edible and you...

Wow. Sweet :)

I've noticed that my diamond plate has been losing some of its bite as well. But it's been going for a few years and still seems like it has a lot of life left in it. Good suggestion on the...

Me too. I think I have the same 1K / 4K combo and it works fine (I do finish with a 8k stone, but a strop works too). The trick to getting stuff done quickly, like others have mentioned, is practice....

Next step was to build the stand. Didn't get many pictures of this process... Here's the only one - ripping the legs:
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Here's the finished jointer next to my #7 for comparison. Overall, I'm...

After a rocky start (screwed up the mortise layout: http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?238915-AARRRGGGH!-Screwed-up-on-a-plane-build), I finally finished building my coopering plane. Here are...

Wow! Beautiful!

Definitely not doing plastic :-).

In the end I decided to move the bed back a few inches and start over. The throat front is going to run into the shallow mortise I already started. I'll see what...

This would be really cool, but definitely more time and effort than I was looking to put in :-). I was aiming for a solid user and am hoping to get it done pretty soon so I can start using it.

I considered this as well. I've only gone down about an inch but I only have a little less than 3 inches of thickness and the cap iron starts curving a half inch from the tip. So that doesn't leave a...

Now you guys are making me reconsider. The cheeks failing was my original concern. This is a big iron and jointing oak staves is not gentle. Maybe I'll switch to the dowel. I've got some time to...

Thanks for all the responses guys. I think I am going to go with option 1 and glue in the cheeks. And in the future I'll try to remember that whole "measure twice cut once" thing!

So I've had this massive 6' long piece of hard maple sitting in my shop for a few months waiting for my hock blade to arrive. I'm building a 6' cooper's plane with a 3.25" iron. I finally got the...

I got this book for my son a few years ago. I think he was around 6 and it was too scary for him at the time. It's a great book - lots of stories about tools, wonderful illustrations, and a kind of...

Bottom line is that both systems are arbitrary, but the convenience of easier addition and multiplication make metric seem like a much better option to me. That being said, I still use imperial for...

I like the part where he loads the one $1200 piece in the lady's car. Hilarious. Reminds me of the Portlandia skit where a guy makes hand-blown light bulbs.