I have an Old Town coffin smoother and an Ohio tool jointer in wood stock planes. I got them while I was stationed in Kansas but now I’m back In West Texas. It is DRY here and the blades in both are very tight. I worked on the blades a bit to ‘narrow’ them but I’m afraid it time to work on the wooden stocks to ease them. When I say ‘afraid ‘ it is an apt choice of words.

any tips before I take tool to wood on these planes I enjoy so much? What tool would you use! (I’ve got rasps, some small files i use on my models, and of course chisels)

help me obi wan (I mean saw mill creek)!