Hi Guys
This is my first post
I am a total novice, but a Technical Engineer and watched about 100 hours of youtube videos just on planes
I have found this great plane in a 'thrift' shop. I did not take before pictures, but it was rusted to the point where nothing wanted to turn or move. I sprayed a product we have in South Africa called Q20 all over the plane and then did some cleanup.
What I did was:
- Re-Finished the sole by sanding it with 100 grid paper and then progressively up to 400 grid.
- Sanded the handles and fixed 2 breaks in the tote.
- Re-finished all the hardware (Including all the blade hardware) with water-paper and scouring pads.
- Re-finished the blade. Now this one was tricky, as I have never done any blade-work before. The blade was butchered by the previous owner. He must have taken a grinder to the blade as it was skew and had deep nicks in it, as if the owner hit nails repeatedly. The entire blade was also off-square. I do not have a grinder, so decided to take 100 grid paper and get the blade flat. after getting all the nicks out of the blade and getting it square, I worked progressively up to 1000 water-paper.
This is the end-result. I am most impressed as I have not worked with a plane for 40+ years (last at primary school) and never did any blade-work before. You will see that in my novice state I got quite nice shavings with the very first stroke using this plane:
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