Hand planed floor.

[Mel Fulks]

Prashun, I think both pics show show clean-ups in the studio where they do the "moon landings". Call Buzz Aldren, he
loves to talk about how they fake that stuff !!

[Jim Koepke]

Great work Mark, looks like it was a great cardio workout.

jtk

[Mark Almeidus]

Thanks all

It was good workout, maybe overkill. With handplaning almost all muscles are active, something like rowing.

[Mark Rainey]

Mark, neanderthals here are in awe!

[Mark Almeidus]

[Jim Matthews]

I'm not sure about that. I think he was the first. When was that picture taken, Warren? Just because of the way they are dressed, doesn't mean they didn't do that AFTER Mark did his. I am skeptical of that picture.

It's from "The Good old" days, when they walked uphill in the snow to and from school.

[Jim Matthews]

Kudos.

What finish was applied?

[Doug Dawson]

The floor of the mountain house was in bad shape from the previous owner, so I thought i will do the flooring manualy, atm couldnt afford for someone to do the job. Also I had a one year break from woodworking and this was kinda excuse to do it with planes and compensate for the entire year break .
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Of all the planes, the block plane fot used the most.

How did you deal with tearout?

[Mark Almeidus]

Thanks Jim. I used 3 coats water based. Dont have many options here.

[Mark Almeidus]

Where the knots were, mostly those places were raised. First I used spokeshave to remove the high knot spots. Also the block plane is bevel up and was doing better job then bevel down planes.
There were dozen small cracks but covered them with epoxy or glue and sawdust.

Problem was, the floor wasnt straight, there were big curvers and bumpy and small holes as you can see on the second picture. It was damaged from the previous owner prety much. Scraper would have done better job where the small holes were, but I dont have one.

[Halgeir Wold]

Congrats on a job well done.... I have not hand planed a floor, but back in the 90's I scraped down appx 500 sqft of hardwood flooring, after following a piece of shitty advice when varnishing the floor... The varnish had virtualy no adhesion to the previous UV hardened lacquer, and since the flooring was virtually new, a full sanding was no option, so down on my knees was really the only logical option.... What really bugged me was that the advice was given by a factory consultant....