The only plane i ever bought was maybe 5 inches long it was all metal and made by Stanley. Had no clue what I was buying so I asked at the hardware store. what I needed was something to trim out or smooth out many many woodden storm windows an later wooden framed full summer screens and that little thing did the job it had a fat metal screw for adjusting the blade later I was to find on the sill plate two wooden block planes both of which had a wooden shim or wedge to help hold the blade in place. Lee
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 07:40:44AM -0500, Dale Leavens wrote: > Hi Dan, > > For decades now I have had a No. 5 plane, it is about 8 or 9 inches long and > about right for straightening an edge or even knocking down high spots on a > board face. I also have a block plane, it might be a little better if it had > the adjustable mouth but mostly I haven't needed that feature much. The block > plane is probably the most useful. > > You understand that you will need something like the Worksharp 3000 to > maintain the plane blade of course? or maybe a set of water stones. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Rossi > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 12:59 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] A plane by any other name. > > > > Thanks gentlemen. I think I will do a bit more research but sounds like I > need a small, low angle block plane, and a mid-sized jack plane to just > have around the shop for occasional needs. I am not going unplugged, but > there have been times when I wished I could just flatten an edge out a > bit, or smooth out a rough spot. > > I purchased a very low end, crappy little, mostly plastic, block plane a > while back, and well, you get what you pay for. > > Thanks. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [email protected] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > -- Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that. -- Barrie .
