Don't waste your money: How to buy antique wooden planes

[@WoodenPlanes]

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[@chrisherald2338]

Just found your channel. Great info for those us who are just starting to learn about buying and fixing up these beautiful old planes.

[@scottdiller1893]

that little coffin smoother at the 10:30 is a stunner!

[@nickmastro9287]

Thank you for the informative video. You are helping to keep this lost art of hand woodworking alive! Keep up the good work!

[@eic00]

Enjoying the channel. Could you do a video on some of the more desirable maker’s to look for. Thanks.

[@HWCism]

Great tips, thank you

[@mateosbabo3121]

This channel is just amazing, i am a fan of old planes and old tools in general so this channel help me a lot, thanks for sharing with us.

[@TedStJohn-vz9jr]

Thanks for your videos- I recently came into several wooden planes and I am starting to work through some videos, including yours, that are answering some of my questions. I hope all is well in your shop during this difficult time.

[@williamlott7612]

Thanks, great information. Darlington, South Carolina

[@leomeilak6532]

You mentioned fixing the too wide throat . I’d love to see that !

[@brissance]

Such beautiful planes.

[@tocardinho78]

Thank you for this video, greats examples of what we should go to and what we should avoid. I'm glad I found your youtube channel ! I have some wooden planes and one don't have faces perpendicular to the bottom It seems that you don't talk about this point in your video. For my plane it's a major issue because the iron has no space in the throat so I can't play with its orientation to fix that, and so my iron is cutting on the left but not on the right.

[@Mateogrg]

I have several old planes from the late 1800 early 1900. I saved them when dad died and they were headed to the burn pile. I want to give them to someone who would appreciate and restore them. They are in reasonably good shape. Some one would just have to pay the shipping.

[@kevinklien90]

I’ll take em sir.

[@budmartin8297]

I'm not sure how you segment the price from the shipping? I never buy old tools online that I can find at flea's and antique malls, because the shipping puts them over the top. I guess I'm lucky to live where these are abundant. The price plus shipping is the cost when looking online though.

[@clashfive]

I'm here from a shout-out from Rex. I've just purchased a 28” jointer wooden plane as part of a set. It's in great condition but has no chip breaker. There are no grooves or cutouts where the wedge or body was shaped to ever accommodate a chip breaker. Some of the other planes are from the 1800’s. Is this normal? What are your thoughts?? Love the channel. I've learned so much already, and I really appreciate the effort you've put in. What would we have done before KZbin? 😁

[@rumadyet]

Some of them are actually designed to not use a chip breaker. If it doesn't have a spot to accommodate one, then you likely have one that doesnt need it. It may be good to go as is!

[@StreamHugger]

@Working Wooden Planes - Regarding a wooden plane that has a mouth that is open too wide, could such a plane be used as a scrub plane if the iron would be sharpened with a camber? Would a smoothing plane or a jack plane be a better candidate to modify into a scrub plane? Very informative video. Thanks!

[@WoodenPlanes]

Thanks! Modifying a smoothing plane is your best option. I did a video where I converted one a while back: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXuwkImErrGorJo

[@StreamHugger]

@@WoodenPlanes thanks. Good video on converting a smoothing plane.

[@christusrex8158]

Jeez, I should've watched this before I bought a plane, because mine was a bad choice.

[@pmhcustomcreations]

I have a few planes from my great great grandfather. I haven't fully taken them apart to look for marks. I couldn't find any from just exterior visual. Is there any place or person you can recommend I try to get in touch with to check them out. I know he could have brought a few from Germany during ww2

[@WoodenPlanes]

I’m not sure I know anyone who could help you with that, but you don’t need to take them apart to find a maker’s mark. Those marks will always be on the toe (front) of the plane. If you don’t see a mark there, then we just don’t know who made it. Any other names/initials stamped elsewhere on the plane will be an owner stamp from a previous owner (if there was one before your great grandfather). The plane blade may have a company name on it, but that is typically someone different than the plane maker.

[@TerryWeinand]

I want to send a picture of a plane I have how do I do that

[@theWendigo1928]

Question I have ran into some one or two hand planes that weren't meant to have a cheap breaker and screw. Inside where you put the iron in, is litterly a flat and just held by the wedge. Any chance if getting planes like that are no good or abit of a risk there?

[@WoodenPlanes]

They’re called single iron planes and they’re excellent. It could mean the plane is quite old, from the 1700s before people started using chipbreakers. In the 1800s nearly all planes were designed to be used with a chipbreaker. But single iron planes never totally went away. The irons on them typically have a high angle and they’re used for hard or cross-grained wood.

[@theWendigo1928]

@@WoodenPlanes Ohh, thank you for the information. Now I'll know the next time I see one. 🤓🤓🤓

[@UserNameAnonymous]

@10:07 does it say "foreign block"?

[@WoodenPlanes]

Maybe? The only letters I can make out are OREIGN B OCK. There's no maker named Block in any of my reference books. The way that it's stamped at an angle looks more like an owner's stamp than a maker's mark but Foreign Block would be a very strange owner name.

[@travis7211]

I would have liked to have heard everything as you sound knowledgeable. I can't get past all the um and uh though.

[@enriquin58]

Saludos cordiales desde España... seguidor de Instagram y ahora de KZbin. Precioso trabajo amigo.👍👍👌🤓 @enrikin58