Adam Savage's One Day Repairs: Old Wood Hand Plane! 

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My guess is that this is a Type 11 from 1910-1918.

FYI, you don't need a surface grinder to flat a plane shoe. Stick some sandpaper to a flat surface (an inspection block or a piece of glass) and work the plane shoe over the paper. Works a treat.

"If you want to know someone's intentions, look at the consequences of their actions." Good quote, I'll be keeping that one

That some good introspection. You also don't need a surface grinder to flatten and square a plane

Adam if you like to lure store the soak of the plane , use A sheet of glass and emery paper.

I'm currently dealing with the consequences of combining getting too comfortable with the ladder and being in a hurry to finish putting up Christmas lights like I've done for decades.

Sounds like you have a slight cold. Hope your okay. Drink lots of O.J. vitamin C is awesome. Great videos!👍 I learn so much from watching and tinkering around! Great fun! 😃🤘

No secondary bevel?

Adam, watch Rob Cosman 32 seconds to sharp on RU-vid. You’re doing it wrong. Cheaper and easier to replace the blade and sharpen it properly. Rob’s tutorial is spot on.

Really appreciated the philosophical ending. I had a similar experience in college working on a model for an architecture class. It was past midnight with the model due the next day and I made a mistake and then I made another and I put my tools down and went to bed. My classmates looked at me like I was crazy for leaving instead of working all night. But the next day I came in early, well rested, and finished the model. They had all made barely any progress while I slept. It is important to recognize your limits and when things are affecting you in negative ways.

I believe just about everyone watching this video felt the pain when that screwdriver slipped.

A month later, on a build for a piece of furniture or something, Adam expresses frustration over why this cedar plank is 1/4" narrower than it was supposed to be!

I love that as Adam is telling us about his impatience to get something done and cross it off his list the doorbell rings. Then he impatiently finishes what he is saying so he can finish his thought... and cross it of his list. Poetic

Hello, my name is Dima, I'm from Ukraine. I really like your videos. I grew up on your show. I started woodworking because of your videos. And I thank you very much for that. There is a war in our country now. The Russian Federation attacked Ukraine. Many people have already supported us, supported our struggle for freedom. we have already been supported by Jamie Hyneman, and many others. I and the whole of Ukraine would be very grateful to you for your words of support. thank you

The sound of a sharp plane peeling curls of wood is so satisfying.

When injuring myself in the shop the first thought is "That's going to leave a mark" Then the process of what happens runs thru my mind and the second thought is "You stupid SOB, you know better". It is 99% of the time my fault and not the tooling and if it was the tooling it is still my fault for rushing or not using the tool on the correct fashion. A maker has to respect all of their tool all of the time.

Your closing thoughts are why I love this channel. Thank you for always sharing your wisdom with us. Take care of yourself!

Now I know how machinists feel when they watch Adam play with mills and lathes. Happy to see another old hand plane restored to working order. It's time to get a new blade.

Everyone rushes from time to time. Adam is in that group that their minds are always out ahead of their actual place and time. Never really 100% in that moment and always with an eye on the finish line. Not trying to say it's a bad thing but things tend to get over looked. Adam reminds me of a cousin of mine who worked on lots of projects at a rabbits pace and loved to draw and play drums, absolutely loved Star Wars.

At 3:55 we all have been there and know that pain

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Great. Hope you got the hand plane bug. Just one word of advice when lapping it flat put the blade in tension retracted. If you do it before, then put the blade in tension it may ever so slightly change the flatness of the sole.

The iron seems very short. Older irons had a hardened steel end that would be able to keep an edge. That is probably gone, seeing how short it is.

My Grandpa always just used gasoline as a rust remover. I learned a lot of valuable knowledge from that man but some of the stuff he taught me was.. old fashioned. We built deer stands with built in ladders out of 2x4s and fixed up anything that broke down while working in the woods. Seeing you bring this tool back to life brought up a lot of fond memories of him. Thank you :)

I have wanted a video like this since I started watching your channel, I love restoring planes and am very exited to see how you do.

I appreciate your candid discussion about getting too comfortable with even the most simple of tools! As a person who doesn’t consider themselves a “maker,” necessarily, but enjoys building guitars and aspires to do more refined things all the time, showing your mistakes is as, if not more, valuable than the very impressive things you have completed successfully. Thank you for continuing to make content that inspires us!

Starts with restoring a plane, finishes with a personal philosophical epiphany. Yup, that's Adam. For what it's worth, I saw how you were holding that iron assembly and winced because I saw that injury coming - most people who work with planes do that at least once. Beautiful plane, would like to see it take some proper gossamer shavings :)

Adam should really check out Crimson Guitars and see the planes he cleans up. He also would love to have Adam participate in the 2022 Great Guitar Build Off. See what kind of guitar Adam would make for charity.

And once again Adam shows us the importance of keeping your tetanus shots up to date 🙂

It's crazy how much time and effort you put into making these videos. Huge respect. Keep up the good work 💙

you actually can straighten the sole of the plane with simple tools. I watched Rex Krueger who referenced Paul Sellers. You spray glue a piece of 100 grit sandpaper onto a piece of granite tile or MDF then work inn in all directions with your hardware installed so it has working tension on it. Once i learned how, I flattened all my planes. Not to perfection, but to a reliably flat surface for great results.

I always appreciate your videos, your integrity, your support for makers, and your transparency throughout your builds. Thank you!

It's just fascinating seeing my childhood hero growing old and still doing his things.

Hi as a cabinet maker I was taught at the very start of my 4 year course, how to set a plane sole and plane blade. Firstly the sole should be laped square to it's sides, whilst preserving a little hollow which is an artefact of the casting process, which also doubles as having a friction reducing effect. Secondly the blade, depending on the style of plane, can have a convex bevel or a square bevel. One for roughing, later for dimensioning. Ideally the square bevel should be square to its sides, for ease of setting and equal bevel/camber adjustment. Also making sure the lever cap, chip breaker and frog are flat and square when seated with plane iron in the plane body, flatten where needed. This will make the blade edge way stiffer and less likely to chatter, making for a cleaner cut. Also make retouching the blade edge a lot faster by having a double bevel on the blade;) Hope this helps anyone who's interested.

I could watch Adam forever it seems like. He’s such a unique genuine man that loves what he does and loves anything about everyone and everything 😏

I love your shop an your projects! You are a great inspiration for me! Best regards from Germany! Nico from Nico's Projects

Adam working hard for those badges :D

I just started baking at a restaurant and I’m experiencing a similar situation where I come home and I look at my hands and count my burns. Your advice speaks to me. Gonna try to take my time and be safer. Now that I’m passed the Learning curve it should be easier. Thanks for sharing Adam.

Hey Adam, seeing the rounding of the plane blade is likely an intentional on how it was ground down. The frog on the plane lets you adjust the angle of the iron, so you typically round the corners on the iron a little bit

i am glad you relised your shop safety practice, think most of us don't mind a build is cut for next day.Bench saw well and any item that has fast sharp tools, take a moment before you start,how you going to use it,whats the process, follow through action,2x push sticks is a good thing, is the blade sharp on bench saw? prevent timber moving of table kick back.my dad use to goto all the furniture factories to repair the machines ,every factory had few with missing fingers .knock on wood relax have Gingerbeer

You’ll making a certain Ben Crowe from crimson guitars very happy! Also it has, as it should, white paint on it.

when sharpening or flattening speed and force are your enemy, speed builds heat and force causes warpage. The harmonics of rhythm and control are what you need.

Yes, Adam It's Called Common Sense and Taking the Time to do it Right and Safely...Don't be in a hurry, take your time...Enjoy the Rewards, safely...

It really is true that I am basically chasing a high every time I stay up late toiling on a project that is near completion but not realistically (or shouldn't be) possible to finish that night. I should have stopped at 8, 9, 9:30. Wife is getting ready for bed. 11pm, wife is asking me to come to bed. "Almost done". And maybe I do finish it by midnight, but a) is it to the level of quality it/I deserves? b) is it even properly satisfying to finish it off and go straight to bed, rather than leave it and finish it off when I come back to it and properly enjoy it and be able to show it off to the wife without feeling ashamed that I selfishly obsessed over finishing it without stopping? This I am realizing is actually addict behaviour and it affects many aspects negatively and I am actively trying to be aware and to resist. But leaving a project, especially one that is within a handful of hours from completion, or at least pre-finishing-- THAT IS HARD. To just put down my tools (speaking about leatherworking specifically for me right now, but it applies to anything really. could be gaming, could be writing etc.) But to just put down the tools and walk away and leave it until the next work session is truly dysphoric.

CRINGE. OMG! Ive done that 1000 times. Stabbed my hand with a screw driver. My hand actually clinched and my arm jerked seeing that.

i see that nothing has changed since the mythbuster days. adam still finds plenty of ways to injure himself all the time :P also question. would a steel brush dremol not have done the same for most of it ? since rust remover always seems so bad for the environment.

Your comments at the end of the video on safety practices made me think about deadlines - self-imposed and client requested. With both types of deadlines there is often the issue of when you’d like to be done and when you Must be done. Often I find the like-to-be-done deadlines are the ones that get us in trouble, through impatience or boredom, and can lead to tears. Take care makers. We all love the final result, but the journey is also why we do this, so let’s all stay safe out there.

I have a theory in the shop (hand planes and not cutting digits etc is sort of a thing here). If I am going to work efficiently by hand, then there's no need to force things. It sort of falls apart if forging something by hand (but a real blacksmith would do that with a power hammer - out of my scope). If there is some point where something physically could lead to instant exhaustion or a disaster move, then I need to stop and think about why that is and solve it rather than just applying the "bigger hammer". How many people here have gone to tear down boxes without a knife and pulled on something so hard out of anger that it feels like you tore something in your shoulder (and it's sort for more than just a few minutes). That's the kind of temperamental stupidity and rushing that leads to no good. Even that (tearing down boxes) is an interesting challenge - as in, how can I find the easiest way to take this box down to something that fits in the township's provided bin. Maybe by limiting myself to half force, or something as simple as cutting with a blade diagonal to the face of the cardboard rather than perpendicular (this may sound dumb, but when cutting perpendicular, you're literally trying to push a gropu of straws in the direction of their length - they resist in their strongest direction. If you cut cardboard with the knife at some angle to the surface, then that's like cutting a straw diagonally instead where you aren't also physically compressing the cardboard through the entire cut, but rather slicing and just deflecting one side of the cut in toward the box and the other out. Suddenly, the same knife cuts 5 times easier and you have less chance of cutting yourself.

Wise, when I find my mind wandering, thinking of other things while using a circular or band saw, it's time to take a break. Love your work.

After rebuilding and installing the engine in my car, I was SOOO close to first start-up, I could taste it ! But, at 1:00 a.m. ,I KNEW I was going too fast and trying too hard to make it run. I forced myself to walk away and finish the next evening. 150,000 miles and counting later. I am glad I did. Like the gambler sings "gotta know when to hold 'em, gotta know when to fold 'em".

3:49 We’ve all been there. Gotta get back to it!

Perfect timing. I got a Bailey 5 1/2 or something around that size disassembled on a work bench for the past 3 weeks. Wasn’t sure where to start.

I ‘think’ at least for me, small nicks, cuts, scrapes on your hands and arms are all a part of working with your hands, maybe I’m wrong, but I always have them.

Knowing when to walk away is a skill that we need to re-learn from time to time. This was a beautiful functional restoration.

The last part of this video really makes me think. I had a machine shop teacher who use to say "don't be afraid of the equipment, respect the equipment, if you treat them with respect they wont hurt you" I think about this a lot when I'm working with any piece of machinery. Doesn't matter how careful I am, a laps in concentration, a will to do something, excitement for a project will always lead to an injury. I'm glad and respectful ever time its not serious

Ah, the 'ol screwdriver in the palm stab, ouch! Been there, done that.

If it's for the looks, then the iron is fine. If this should be useable as a tool maybe look into a replacement iron. there's about 1,5 to 2 inches missing. that means you're reaching the end of the hardened area of the blade.

Dude, stanley used laminated blades, so if it's short your steel might be gone. They used iron or mild steel with a small amount of high speed steel welded on for the working edge.

You can use the paper to check the quality of your deburring as a poor job will snag as the blade travels through the paper.

I’m an ER physician assistant, and my experience with shop injuries is thus: it’s a bell-shaped curve. The amateur is terrified, and rarely gets injured. The pro knows their stuff, and rarely gets injured. The weekend warrior is the guy who pays off my boat for me. Good enough to start getting sloppy. Your point, I think, was that everybody has a time, in their day, their week, their life…where they occupy any of these spaces. Here to striving for the send the pro.

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Great restore, I like that you left it aged. The one thing you forgot to get that blade scary sharp is you have to flatten the back side of the blade first

Adam, if you get really in to sharpening / resorting plane irons (that’s the blade) Veritas makes a sharpening jig that is far superior to what you are using. And if you are looking for addition info on sharpening, both the Wood Whisperer and Rob Cosman have some great info. TWW uses the jig more, while Cosman is a freehand sharpening master. I use both methods depending on how much TLC the blade needs.

damn it Adam, you almost gave me a heart attack. one of my friends worked on something and the screwdriver did the same thing. except, he hit a nerve inside the hand that cause some permanent damage, it never returned to normal again. and he said, treat EVERY tool, every single one, as if was a loaded, armed gun. it goes for cutting tools, blunt tools, to filing tools. if you're not thinking, they will go off on you and when they do, pray that an angle is watching over you.

You got to adjust the base of the plane while it's loaded with the blade and frog assembly.

Last fall I was making my first kitchen knife and because I have no shop, I was essentially working on my parent's front yard. As I was shaping the handle I got so close to done but had to stop because it was getting dark (despite the artificial light on the wall of the garage) and I was getting tired. Stopping and going home that day was one of the hardest things I've done as a maker but it was well worth it, I didn't mess up the handle. Let's not talk about the fact that the wood then dried and shrunk on me and ruined the perfect fit I had, that's a lesson I've yet to learn.

Came for the restoration but stayed for the philosophical ending.

Saw the name of the video and thought, i dont see wooden hand plane restorations often this will be interesting, then i start the video and realise they mean a standard hand plane. 🤔

Beautiful curls, which reminded me of old punch tape to put data in to computers.

I like how you didn't really explain the connection between your brother in law and the plane.

I don't mind saying it now. I had a breakdown a few years ago and found myself with my hands ready to push through the bandsaw. It was 12am and I had the machine running and was standing there. Then the thought of leaving my children and wife in the same father/husband-less position that I was in when I was 11 was too much. I took myself straight to the Doctors and got help. I'm okay now. But if anything gets in the way of my safe-practice in my workshop. I stop. Knowing when to walk away is the most important action you will ever take. 🙏 Nice plane BTW. Jamie

it sounds painfully obvious, but sometimes it is more painful than obvious.

And Ben Crowe thought he couldn't love you any more, then you take on Plane repair.

I hope that Ritual appreciate that you hold their cups in so many videos.

Gotta love the faux Philip Glass during the sped up parts!

Got to love those old hand planes. Very useful in the workshop.

it has seen a lot of use. verry litle iron left, but it is an older model so that might hint why

Hope your hand is ok? Kinda saw that coming when using a screwdriver like that, but it still looked like it hurt. Great to hear you reflect on the reasons for it happening.

I love that Bailey No.6 taught us all a lesson. Thanks for all you put out into the world.

Force is what we use when technique and skill is lacking.

OW OW OW!!!!!! (Done that, cringing to see it.....)

Yoda says in his voice Adam needs to be careful he does. Yes.

As with most things in life, if you have to force it you're doing it wrong.

Loved the video Adam. Good to see you do what I do all the time. Maybe one day I'll get to do one of your staple pieces. Patina is important to me. Oh, and please, it would be best to put the iron and cap iron flat on the bench next time you try to get the screw out 👍

Great video Adam. Sometimes these small injuries or near misses are necessary to wake up from some complacency and avoid really bad events. You should probably be grateful in some way for these things, you can now evaluate your practices and readjust.

I had no clue that Evapo Rust was reusable! I'm glad I clicked on this video before deciding to clean up a hand plane I have

Should bring in hand tool rescue for a crossover

A general safety principal I've learned and relearned is that it's a bad idea to have the force of a tool directed at another body part. But when I get to working faster and a little tired my mind drops the careful thinking. The most recent lesson was when I dismantled a pallet with a pry bar and one nail let go easier than I expected and I split my lip.

Hi Adam, It was interesting for me as a hand plane restorer, watch you as professional maker approach this as a new task. I knew you would take a different approach and I am sorry that you hurt your hand for the camera shot. But another take on injuries from my experience is that tasks like this are inherently a greater risk. You don't cut your hand on the blade when using or sharpening tools, but when restoring tools you handle and treat the parts differently and and sometimes with urgency. Take care. ps, that is a beautiful No.6.

Adam and @HandToolRescue When?

Great restoration, Though I was looking forward to seeing how you fixed the handle.. I've also been there in terms of being in such a rush mentally to finish something that I get sloppy, Luckily, (knocking on wood) not dangerously so yet, but I too have to slow down and take a step back occasionally. Glad none of your nicks and scrapes are serious, And may any others you receive be minor as well.

Reminds me at the end when I had a few brewskis lol

Hey love your videos! I'm an avid woodworker. And I enjoy doing woodworking with old tools. I happen to have a set of those same planes from #3 through #7. And a block plane. I've restored all of them like you did. Just a few ideas for you. When flattening the soul, you want to do so with the frog and everything installed and clamped to pressure so you're flattening with the same strain on the soul as when in use. And also you might want to add a micro bevel. Again, love your videos and really appreciate the way your mind works. Long time fan going back to the beginning of myth busters.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's scared of the table saw. I had an accident with that. Fortunately, doctors were able to "repair" my fingertip.

Awesome! I recently started cleaning up some of my planes and learning how to adjust them. It’s so satisfying once you sharpen and tune up a plane with how effortlessly you can plane a board.

Looks to be a type 11 no 6 (1910-1918).

Restoration plus Adam Savage all in one video! Day Made!😍😍 Screwdriver Ouch! My dog started barking at your doorbell 😂

As someone constantly covered in nicks and cuts, try a good fitting pair of mechanics gloves, I usually cut the index finger off the gloves. It'll take a month to get used to wearing.

This is great, thank you. I have a planer just like this one that I inherited from my Grandpa. He built Thrifty stores all over California.