treating wooden planes

[engineerone]

thinking about other posts elsewhere
i have just cleaned up a couple of my old woodies
mentioned elsewhere made the bottoms flat and square
so now, the question is what do i do to protect
this new surface??

is candle wax alone enough, or should we look at other
lubricants?

paul

[modernist]

Personally I stand them in a tray of warm linseed oil for a day then clean them off and let them dry

Brian

[Scrit]

And they also make excellent fillings for wood burning stoves on cold mornings, too........

[engineerone]

may the normites get you scrit

paul

[Dave S]

How often are you thinking of posting a question and someone else goes and asks much the same question first! ;D

I've got 2 or 3 myself which used to belong to my Grandfather and I've been thinking recently about sprucing them up a bit.

I also read somewhere once that you can block up the throat with plasticine and then fill it up with linseed oil. Don't know whether that is good advice, though.

I've got a few chunky blades salvaged from woodies that have long since fallen apart. Been thinking about having a go at making one

Dave

[modernist]

daves said:

I also read somewhere once that you can block up the throat with plasticine and then fill it up with linseed oil. Don't know whether that is good advice, though.

I know people who do that but I'm not sure what it achieves. The sole does most of the work and presumably does so better when oil filled.

Brian

[Scrit]

OK, snidey comments apart, the few old woodies and Transitionals I've rescued mostly had radial checks in the ends, and oil in the throat won't cure that....... Many years ago I remember Michael Dunbar (he of Windsor Chair fame) recommending dumping such planes in a bucket of linseed oil for a week or two, or at least until the checks closed up. Expensive in oil, but very effective, I found, although my version was a piece of plastic drainpipe with one end capped off (requires less oil, see......)

Scrit

[engineerone]

so men on the wrong side of the pennines are just as tight as yorkshire men then ;D

amazing what you can use a length of drain pipe for innit

good idea scrit, am now just waiting for alf and her advice

dave, you could always see how the blades go in a metal plane, my two off these have rather manky chip breakers, but will see how they work out now the bottoms are flat

paul

[Scrit]

engineerone said:

so men on the wrong side of the pennines are just as tight as yorkshire men then ;D

Wrong side? WRONG SIDE?? Some people! Anyway soem of my ancestors were Welsh and I spent my formative years in Scotland, so some of it may just have rubbed off on me........

[engineerone]

of course it's the wrong side, where does it rain, why is the biggest tourist attraction called the LAKES???

on the other side, we get sunshine, rivaulx, and scarborough ;D
oh yes and doncaster
paul

[Scrit]

engineerone said:

on the other side, we get sunshine, rivaulx, and scarborough ;D
oh yes and doncaster
paul

And Rotherham, and Barnsley, and Bradford...... I could depress you even more (and comment on the freezing cold winters) but I'd rather just remind you of the phrase designed to describe something horrid (and from Yorkshire)......"From Hell, Hull, and Halifax may the Good Lord deliver us!" (and BTW Halifax still has a Gibbet Street)

Scrit

[engineerone]

hell. i'm from lincolnshire, so i guess i must be even more careful

paul

[Alf]

There's rather a lot of debate on the plane soaking thing and it seems to be generally felt now that it's a Bad Thing. Apparently the oil never cures and just sets up rot within the plane (some hardy folks have sliced them in half to prove it iirc) The likes of Marples et al actually made a point of advising against it (again, iirc) On the other hand it does close up any checks and it does increase the weight of the plane - which may be beneficial for some. I dunno; I just tend to use paste wax, simply 'cos that's what I use to clean 'em up in the first place.

Cheers, Alf

[derekcohen]

You don't need a finish. Just use the planes. This will burnish the soles, and that is enough protection.

Regards from Perth

Derek

[engineerone]

thanks again derek, just a thought, can i use cherry to replace the wedges on these two, since i have lots of it??? and otherwise i have only oak. or cedar.

paul

[Dave S]

engineerone said:

thanks again derek, just a thought, can i use cherry to replace the wedges on these two, since i have lots of it??? and otherwise i have only oak. or cedar.

paul

In 'Making and Mastering Wood Hand Planes', David Finck talks of using Cherry for large planes, although he says it is usually not dense enough for smaller planes. So I guess the answer is yes.

Dave

[colincott]

Hi Paul

I would say no to using any of them but I will bring you some beech, just let me know how thick and how wide.

[engineerone]

if you don't know how thick and wide i am

both are about 6 inches long, by 2 3/8ths wide and about 3/4 deep.

paul

[colincott]

engineerone said:

if you don't know how thick and wide i am



paul

Jason
You can stop now

[Scrit]

colincott said:

engineerone said:

if you don't know how thick and wide i am

Jason - You can stop now

I thought that Jason was going to use the oft quoted comparison with two short planks

until I realised that Colin was taking them both over.......

[engineerone]

fewer irish jokes please ;D

and as for woodist jokes then they are definately a no no

paul

[Scrit]

engineerone said:

fewer irish jokes please ;D

Don't you go all Red Ken on me, sunshine

[engineerone]

well it is a st paddy celebration in london today

the only time i get to be red is when i am sick on a ferrari ;D

paul

[dom]

engineerone said:

the only time i get to be red is when i am sick on a ferrari ;D

paul

You do that and you'll have me to deal with

[engineerone]

so what can i do,?? you place so many restrictions on us poor
mortals dom ;D

paul