Learn about Woodworking Planes for Furniture Making

  • Chapter 2 of Cabinetmaking tells you about: Bench Planes, Block planes, Bailey planes, Bedrock planes, Norris planes.

  • Find out about the parts of a Hand Plane are and exactly how a Woodworking Plane works

  • Choosing planes sizes - smoothing planes, jack plane, jointer planes - which sized woodworking planes do furniture makers need? 

  • Which are the plane cutting iron, plane chipbreaker, plane lever cap and what is a plane frog and a plane tote or toat?

  • Sharpness of the edge, straightness of the edge and the grinding angle affect performance as the Woodworking Plane cuts into wood.

  • Can old Woodworking Planes work well?

  • How to sharpen Woodworking Plane cutters - where the two surfaces of a cutter meet, a line is formed. This line should be straight or slightly curved but not jagged

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Cabinetmaking a foundation course

the new furniture making course book by John Bullar, published by the Guild of Master Craftsman Publications