scott 730 - 3/18/2025 09:07
Chris - 3/18/2025 07:03
bruiser - 3/17/2025 21:15 Taught to never set plane down on its cutting edge. Maybe it makes no difference.
and yet every time you plane a piece of wood you set it down, James Hamilton, Paul Sellers, Rob Cosman, Matthais Wandel, James Wright and many others have debunked this myth. Setting it on it's side can cause the iron to shift so that it cuts deeper on one side.
............ it is all dependent on what kind of surface it is being set down on. In my former life of 42 years as a carpenter I NEVER put a plane down on its cutting edge, anywhere. If you happen to be working at a bench with a pristine wood top, then likely no harm to be done, but that is not how I was taught to care for my tools. This goes way back to 7th grade wood shop class. When working on a job site many times the only place to lay tools down is on the floor. No way in hades my plane is going on any floor with the blade down. ............ and the shifting blade thing is pure BS unless you are dropping or throwing your sharp tools. If your blade moves from simply laying a plane on its side, it wasn't tight to begin with.
I have no clue who these 4 "myth debunkers" are. But if they base their claims from living their woodworking life in a clean controlled shop environment, their sharp tools wouldn't last long on a dirty job site.
Old Carpenter Plane
