This course will teach students to make wooden hand planes. Through the use of lecture, handouts, demonstrations and videos, the following topics will be covered:

• The history of planemaking
• Tuning and using wooden and metal planes
• Designing a plane
• Making and tuning laminated planes
• Cutting, tempering and sharpening a plane iron
• Designing, making and using a wooden plane

05-11-2009

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