How To Restore A Wooden Plane

A coffin Smoother is a Wooden smoothing plane. It is a simple plane, but at the same time, it has a lot that needs to be right to work. this one has a lot of problems to get up and running again.
Huge thanks to The Duck for letting me fix this one up.
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[@glencrandall7051]

I bet that little guy feels better now. LOL He certainly looks better. And he works better too.🙂🙂

[@jamessunderland362]

Yes! Awesome video. There’s not enough content about wooden planes on KZbin. Any more on restoring moulding planes would be great too. Thanks James 👍🏼

[@paco_vazquez]

8:13

[@drawlele]

Well since I have to put my tools away for the winter this video is going into a playlist of mine for reatoring planes because those are the only tools im allowed to keep out for the winter and they are all getting cleaned up. Got one or two or 3 unusable wooden body planes, spring should be nice for me, all my planes will be super tuned up and ready to go.

[@hudsonhornet6558]

You can never really appreciate old hand planes until you use nice ones has they are beautiful tools just like a drawknife a sharp chisel or whatever else good well maintained tools are a different type of awesome to use they take more time and effort but it’s well worth it

[@909sickle]

Mrs. Wright hands James a laddle

[@Canalcoholic]

I bought my first ‘coffin smoother’ around 18 months ago from an antique shop for the princely sum of 5 British pounds ($6.50). It was clearly a well used tool and bore the craftsman’s initials. Furthermore, it was sharpened to perfection and took an onion skin shaving off the first plank I took it to. Totally frictionless. Since then I have bought a few more from markets and antiques fairs, ranging from £1 to £8, some with good blades in firewood bodies, others with poor or missing blades, and I now have around 8 in regular use. Never underestimate these as curiosities or decorative pieces, they are worthy of a little TLC.

[@davidclark9086]

Somehow I missed this video. As I own several relatively old coffin planes needing some tender loving your video save them all, Thanks.

[@TotalBoat]

Awesome video - it turned out great!

[@wolfman75]

Nice Job!!! Works Well!!! Thank You James!!! 👍😎

[@MCsCreations]

Beautiful work, James! Really nice! 😃

[@gregsarsons1221]

I was give a coffin smoother as a gift and it was being used as a decoration in my office. Thank you for adding one more project to my never ending todo list :) Again another great video, short enough and with the right balance of information.

[@garryjohnson3107]

Love my wooden coffin smoothing plane. I was lucky to get mine in nearly perfect working condition, now I can get more even if the condition is not perfect. Thanks!

[@RafaelHe]

I've also restored a few wooden planes and found their feel so appealing that now I have an array of them.

[@michaels.8663]

Very nice, that's just plane beautiful!

[@virtuosooo]

Im about to go to work on restoring 2 old wooden planes. A new York tool co 12 and an Ohio tool co coffin. First time restoring wooden planes, so figured I better check my go to place for these things. Thanks again for the Info to help make my task easier James!

[@danhusker1413]

Thanks for the insights. i have one from my great grandfather. He was a German carpenter in Cleveland in the late 1800s. The top of the blade is mushroomed where he hit it with a metal hammer. I'll leave that for the story. I have since found that hammer too. Now I know a little more how to recondition this. Question: I've looked around and found these planes sell for only around $20. Any idea why so low? I know about supply and demand, but wow!

[@williamfitzer4805]

Ha. I have the same old Stanley steel square. Love it. My favorite square.

[@ikust007]

Thank you !!

[@some-idea]

Nice video. I have a few to do with blown cheeks so will have to get some low viscosity epoxy and try it. Rather than a card scraper, have you tried denatured alcohol and fine wire wool for cleaning? I’ve had luck with getting the dirt off, but leaving more patina and even, rich colour. Then the BLO really makes it pop.