In the discussion comparing handplanes, reference is made to the extra effort required to tune an older or pooer quality hand plane. I have to confess ignorance....Is anyone up to a step by step description as to how it is done?Dave

I'm still a relative newbie to the world of hand planes, but the onething I know for sure about the whole tuning situation is that it is awhole lot easier to have someone who knows how to do it help you getstarted. I must've worked on my old bailey plane for about 30 hoursusing various articles in magazines and website descriptions of theprocess, and got almost nowhere. Sure, it'd cut wood, but it wasn'tpretty. I took the thing into a voc. ed course, and had theinstructor give me a hand with it, and he had the thing shaving littlecurls of wood thin enough to read newsprint through in about 15minutes. Most of the problems he spotted with my setup were not evenmentioned in any of the articles I found, and I learned more in that15 minutes than I did during countless hours of frustration. Themoral of the story is not to mess with text descriptions of handplanetuning- IMO, it's much less time-consuming and more rewarding just tofind someone who knows what the heck they're doing to at...

How do you 'tune' a hand plane?

Dec 30, 2004 26 Replies

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AAvK 21 years ago

My favorite is the four seasons, Vivaldi.

Alex

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Ba r r y 21 years ago

That's one I've heard.

Barry

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GregP 21 years ago

I hope that it's the right one and I haven't sent you off on a wild goose chase. My CD of it is out on loan right now so I can't check.

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Bob Martin 21 years ago

yes, number 7

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Bob Martin 21 years ago

not much dissonance in that!

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George 21 years ago

I told Susan that we were going to use the "Promenade" from Pictures at an Exhibition as our wedding march.

She knew the piece, and immediately replied "I don't want them to think I'm pregnant...."

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AAvK 21 years ago

Maybe not, just an interjection. But it's got plenty of very sharp dynamics. Have you ever heard the whole piece through? It can be amazing. Alex

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