I dug up an old Stanley #5 hand plane. I don't really know much about them, but it looks well built. Anyway, I took it all apart and cleaned it up, then put it back together in what I THINK was the correct way. This is what happens when you do stuff over the holidays and get distracted.
My problem is it doesn't seem to "work". It feels very sharp (how sharp is sharp?). But when I run it along the edge of a piece of oak or pine, it just sort of skips along and digs in. Also, the wood it does dig off just gets all bound up in the gap around the blade.
Can anybody give me some pointers on how best to set up and use this?
-Jim