Making & Mastering Wood Planes: Revised Edition | David Finck

Making & Mastering Wood Planes: Revised Edition | David Finck | This is a wonderful book!!!

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	Making & Mastering Wood Planes: Revised Edition David Finck Sterling, 2005 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The classic guide by master woodworker David Finck is back and better than ever, with all-new color photography. It's the best book ever on this popular tool-and it features a foreword by the celebrated woodworker James Krenov.

"Serves as an elegant framework for teaching many of the fundamentals of fine woodworking."--Woodshop News

Small and extremely comfortable to use, wooden hand planes bring machined surfaces to an alluring, silky smoothness-but they can't be bought anywhere. Fortunately, this meticulously complete, photo-packed guide is like two volumes in one, teaching you how to make a classic plane yourself (it takes only a day or so) and how to use it in a refined manner. One of the most respected woodworkers around digs deeply into the art of crafting and working with this personalized tool, helping even the most uninitiated with dozens of detailed boxed sidebars on the basics. Every step in the construction process receives extremely close attention: preparing the plane blank, bandsaw pointers, drift angle, tension, tuning and using hand tools, sharpening with ease speed, and reliability, cross pin location, and gluing up. Handle the plane well to get a good stroke going; and take a look at invaluable planning aids and special techniques. There's no other manual on the market to match this woodworking masterpiece.

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Exactly what I was looking for!

I love wooden planes and have several old ones that I have bought at garage sales. I am very interested in building my own wooden hand planes.

I have several articles that I have downloaded or found in books on making tools that use the same building technique as in this book, which is using a bandsaw to cut cheeks off of the sides of the center section rather than trying to cut the opening using a chisel. These articles gave me the basic technique but I wanted something with more detail to help me do a precise job.

This book is very detailed and offers the instruction needed to build very high quality planes. It even has instruction on building the special tools needed to fine tune and adjust the plane design as well as instruction on grinding and sharpening the plane iron.

The book does not give specific dimensions and drawings but rather takes the approach of giving you the information you need to design and build any plane you want.

Just what I needed!

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This is a wonderful book!!!

How about 10 stars?

This is the best "how to" book I have ever read. Bar none. I went out to [...] to look at his Mr. Finck's work and he is the real deal. I have seen (and touched) his work in person and it is miraculous. The surfaces on his furniture are so fine and his designs are so lovely that in my view, the man is a national treasure. It is a wonderful gift to the woodworking community that Mr. Finck has imparted his knowledge in a manner as as fine as his woodworking.

Mr. Finck, thank you! And write another book!!!

MAKING & MASTERING WOOD PLANES REVISED

POSSIBLY ONE OF THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE BOOKS ON THR MAKING OF WOODEN PLANES MEASUREMENTS AND DESIGN ARE VERY CLEAR AND SO IS THE EXPLANATIONS ON HOW TO MAKE IT .I AM BUSY MAKING MY FIRST BLOCK PLANE FOR PEOPLE THAT CANT AFFORD TO BUY TOOLS LIKE ME THIS IS IDEAL WAY TO GO AND BY THE THE WAY I AM 60 YEARS OF T AGE I WORK ALONE WITH ONE OTHER PERSON AND I MAKE SOLID WOOD FURNITURE AND MY MAIN INCOME IS THE MAKING OF KITCHENS AND FURNITURE AND I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AN AVID LEARNER OF OTHER PEOPLES WORK I AM SELF TAUGHT MAINLY BY READING OTHER PEOPLES WORK I OWN OVER 500 BOOKS AND IM STILL BUYING WHEN I CAN AFFORD

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As you can see the prices are WAY out if line. I spoke with Mr. Finck and told him of the robbery people are trying to pull off on these book prices. FEAR NOT. David will be self publishing this book in the near future....go to [...] and send him a note that you are in the market for this book at a reasonable price and you will be added to a list.

Good Book

Well it didn't change the way I think about woodworking or even give me an epiphany. But it does tell you everything you need to know to build a plane.
A very useful reference. I wish it had better pictures! The text is 5 stars but the illustrations are not at that level. Something like this that you have to do with your hands needs much better pictures.

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