And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sorry Ghost, this time you're wrong. Properly used, a blade engages the wood as it strikes its sharp edge. The perfect hone is a thing of beauty (watch a Japanese master sharpen and wield his plane), but the sharp edge is very thin and can be deformed by sitting the plane down on the blade. Also, you WILL ruin it if you accidentally set it down on something hard, like a piece of gravel or god forbid a steel table.
Best practice is to never set it down on the blade. Make it a habit and you won't hurt it. It's like best practice is to keep your finger off the trigger until it's used.
If course, if you only use a jack plane to whack off the bottom of a swollen door, it doesn't matter. You aren't finishing a cabinet with a perfect, smooth, better than an oiled1200-grit surface finish.
Those 2 planes are most likely more than 50 years old and owned by someone with extensive experience, and there they are sitting with blades on wood. I'm a woodworker and all of the flat surfaces in my workshop are wood and my oldest plane is over 100 years old, and "scary" sharp.
And it's possible that the blades are fully retracted (it's also possible the image is AI), but the age of the plane isn't important (I have two that are around 120 years old), just the condition of the blade. Remember, rules like this are written for newbies in shop class, where all sorts of things wooden are intermixed with things metal. It's easy to set a plane down on a table saw or shaper, for example. It's always good to build in reflexes to avoid trouble.
I suspect the truth of the matter resembles the perennial Ford/Chevy debate.
Mine too. That’s a no no. BTW… I’ve not had an opportunity to use a wood plane in over 50 yrs. I just purchased one last month to plane a bit off the bottom of a wooden framed screen door so it would clear a new door mat. I’ve still got the skills. It worked like a charm! 😂
Those two planes need to breed,a baby plane is essential!
ReplyDeleteA master would set his planes down on the side.
ReplyDeleteCorrect. My father would rap my knuckles.
DeleteGirls, if sitting a wood plane on wood is going to hurt it, it's in the wrong business.
DeleteThink!
How do you plane a piece of wood if you DON'T sit the plane on it?
jayziss....
Sorry Ghost, this time you're wrong. Properly used, a blade engages the wood as it strikes its sharp edge. The perfect hone is a thing of beauty (watch a Japanese master sharpen and wield his plane), but the sharp edge is very thin and can be deformed by sitting the plane down on the blade. Also, you WILL ruin it if you accidentally set it down on something hard, like a piece of gravel or god forbid a steel table.
DeleteBest practice is to never set it down on the blade. Make it a habit and you won't hurt it. It's like best practice is to keep your finger off the trigger until it's used.
If course, if you only use a jack plane to whack off the bottom of a swollen door, it doesn't matter. You aren't finishing a cabinet with a perfect, smooth, better than an oiled1200-grit surface finish.
Those 2 planes are most likely more than 50 years old and owned by someone with extensive experience, and there they are sitting with blades on wood. I'm a woodworker and all of the flat surfaces in my workshop are wood and my oldest plane is over 100 years old, and "scary" sharp.
DeleteAnd it's possible that the blades are fully retracted (it's also possible the image is AI), but the age of the plane isn't important (I have two that are around 120 years old), just the condition of the blade. Remember, rules like this are written for newbies in shop class, where all sorts of things wooden are intermixed with things metal. It's easy to set a plane down on a table saw or shaper, for example. It's always good to build in reflexes to avoid trouble.
DeleteI suspect the truth of the matter resembles the perennial Ford/Chevy debate.
"newbies in shop class"
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HA! Ain't that the truth. My first shop class with in 7th grade, 1966-67.
Me too ghostsniper. 7th grad woodshop in ‘65. Just gave my grandson a cribbage board I made in that class.
DeleteMine too. That’s a no no.
ReplyDeleteBTW… I’ve not had an opportunity to use a wood plane in over 50 yrs. I just purchased one last month to plane a bit off the bottom of a wooden framed screen door so it would clear a new door mat. I’ve still got the skills. It worked like a charm! 😂