I won't make this too long a thread but I've pretty much finished most of what I intend to do with a #8 C jointer. It came to me pretty clean but with a broken tote. While the Japanning had been cleaned off by some method or other, there was light rust hidden underneath an oily surface coat. Maybe WD 40 applied to protect the surface. Surface rust on the sides and in the sole corrugations - 320 grit sandpaper.
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I'm including this to show how easy it is to provide simple masking when spray painting, and it's important to keep the area where the frog meets the body clean. Just blue painters tape.
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The biggest part of the job was making a new tote but that also let me resize and reshape it more to my liking.
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The old tote had been screwed from the bottom to repair the major failure, but had also been screwed from the top to repair the horn. I hadn't seen this before.
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The only other real damage to the plane is a chip in the lever cap which I've read is pretty common. I have my eye out for a raplacement but meanwhile I just smoothed it out. It's not like a damaged chip breaker after all. I may take the sheen off the knob at some point also - but dang it I've got a hand rail, a bread box, a threshold, dock furniture you get the idea. If I'm gonna sell SWMBO on this "hobby" I better keep up with da honey-dos!
And the finished plane with a Lee Valley HC replacement blade. I kind of settled on HC rather than A2 because I find them much easier to maintain and they do get very sharp. I ground the primary bevel and honed this with camber all freehand. Practice and no micro bevels has not made perfect - but I get consistent shavings and yes there is this sound when the planes are cutting right.
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