Planes

My bad experiences with the Wickes plane that wouldn't plane properly due to the upside down blade, and with my electric plane randomly tearing chunks out the wood, and school woodwork lessons where it was impossible to get square and straight edges, has left me with a fear of planes.

But lots of the advice I got for making this boat said to "just plane it down." I read up on what planes do, and how, and bought these two puppies cheaply. One is a smoothing plane the other a block plane.

What a revelation! After honing in the 30 degree edge, these are beauties. All the pieces of my boat are now "faired to the line" and all the curves look really good. I was able quite simply to get a clean accurate edge.

I now love planes.