How to Restore a Stanley No 1 Hand Plane 

Fantastic job. You're never going to please everyone with this kind of work, but if I had one, I'd want it to work and I'd want to make sure it lasted longer than me, so your work is the perfect solution.

I got rid of my #2 for some of the same reasons you've mentioned about the #1. Not actually useful. Let the collectors have their fun, I'll stick to my #3 and up users. Thanks for a very informative video.

Great work, screw the people that don't like it. They aren't the ones who use it.

Love the working restorations you did a really nice job

Hand Tool Rescue is a RU-vid blessing.

It looks amazing!

It's super cute!! And I'm glad to see one in a good working and usable condition, and although they are more valuable in origional untouched state, what's the fun in that!

Cool little plane. I like what you did with it.

Great tutorial! This turned out awesome!

Looking forward to the follow up no 1 videos! Nice work

Fantastic work, James! 😃 The plane looks beautiful! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Fantastic job looks great and a great video thanks for sharing your time and skill. 🍺🍺👍👍😷

Good job. If you need a knob that is a replacement for the no 1 use one off a no 98 or 99. I have a no 1 and both 98 and 99 and they match perfectly. Thank you have a good weekend.

I would have done exactly the same thing...nice save on that beautiful plane.

James Wright is the No 1 of youtube.

You’re good people.

It's so wittle 😍

Love these planes. They’re meant to be used.

I thought that there was always the Wright way to do it. This video came out this morning, 12/12/2020, and there are already 200 views. Way to go James! When I got done watching this video, I checked the views, and it is now at 351 views.

you are the best

I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms

Great video. I have a number one Stanley. Might be selling it...

Fantastic restoration James, think that despite it's collectability, it needed bringing back to fully functioning and useable, would have to be of some significant historical significance not to do anything with it. As to the piece you added to the tote not matching 100%, I would have probably tried using a black tea stain, think that would have done the trick.

Paint spatter - my never ending mystery. How is it that so many of the vintage tools I’ve acquired, especially primo pieces, have paint spatter?

I really like this channel more than the artsy one.

Alchahol aneline dye works to match color in this case... you have to experiment to mix the colors in the shellac

I'm not a tool snob. If I had a #1, I would restore it to the point of being complete and usable but not make it look as new - and I wouldn't hesitate using it, if it was the only tool that would do a particular job. In fact, I would do as you have done in this video, minus the Japanning; anything that would stop rust would suffice, so black Hammerite or even felt pen would do me...! 😐

Nice job. Never seen anyone do real japaning before. I can hardly tell the tote was repaired.

Of course that particular plane was for someone else, but when I repair broken totes, I will use completely different species of wood because I love the contrast and how it shows the history of the plane

I can’t stand when people try and tell you what to do with your tools. If you wanna paint it pink so it!!!

Have two no ones coming up for sale and a bedrock no two all in very good condition

Is it the rarity that makes it so valuable? It came out really nice.

Every plane should be brought back to a usable condition. What good is a plane that cant be used, even if you aren't going to use it.

wowwooo , at last ha 👍

This was a fun video, and that is the cutest little engine that can. I think I'd like to see one decked out in your shop colors, would look super awesome. And I know I had suggested taking it back to fresh out the box, but seeing one 100% personalized would be very cool. Maybe we should all go on the hunt and buy the individual pieces of a #1 and mail them to you untill you have the entire plane and then you could have a number 1 that is multiple number 1's at the same time. You mentioned that there are more aggressive ways to remove japanning and im kind of wondering what those are, also I know when I go to paint mine starting with a self etching primer is kind of a no brainer, but as for the paint itself what should I look for in the paint? Like will any old spray work or should I be on the lookout for a specific brand or type? My shop color is going to be burnt orange, with loyalty to the kingdom thrown in (some royal blue highlights), anywho have a great weekend James

You have a very understanding wife.

I found my first plane a Handyman n.4 last week and restored it. Still wondering how i could live without such a thing before

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Would the japanning dry if you didn't oven treat it?

i have no snide remark. i have never shared the facination that some people have with the stanley number one but to each their own. follow your desires and dont let people tell you that yours are somehow wrong. (steps off soap box)

A gunsmith technique to remove rust and most gunk without removing the natural patina or bluing is to use WD40 or kerosene and scrub it with steel wool.

nice paperweight.

Have you tried using an electrolysis tank to remove paint, rust ant japanning? I prefer it because It gets everything out, especially in corners you can’t get a brush.

Hello, my name is Freddy, I am an apprentice traditional carpenter, and I follow all your videos and I like them a lot, I would like to know if you can help me get a Stanley #1, in my country it is very difficult to get Stanley planers, I saw your video in a store that has all kinds of carpentry tools, I would restore it , saludos desde Costa Rica

Hello, my name is Freddy, I am an apprentice traditional carpenter, and I follow all your videos and I like them a lot, I would like to know if you can help me get a Stanley #1, in my country it is very difficult to get Stanley planers, I saw your video in a store that has all kinds of carpentry tools, I would restore it

Hey! So i just picked up a couple planes in a lot of tools, two of them are stanleys, but the other seems to have no identifier? Also, what's the purpose of grooves in the bottom of one?

It seems to me that there are three groups of antique tool folks: collectors, users, and user/collectors. I tend to fall in the last group. If you want to spend a lot of money on something that doesn't do anything, get yourself a congressman.

I see where you used multiple layers of paint stripper to cut through the japanning but at 2:42 you said there are better ways to remove the japanning. What are those ways? I have never found a satisfactory method.

Cute little thing, was it designed as a child's plane or a miniature demonstration piece for sales reps to show to shops? Lovely first cut, nicely renovated. Never seen one of those before, let alone see one in action. Definitely not a toy, even for the size of it!

How many guys can expand their shop into the kitchen? W is very brave.

There’s no right or wrong way, there is the Wright way.

Great work. Enjoyed it very much. Curious....how much did the guy who sent you the plane to restore pay for it? Not the restoration.....the plane.

I've always read that BLO will turn rosewood black over time.

Are your hands really that LARGE? That plane looks like a miniature, in your paws. :D Seriously, I'm watching to see the Japanning process. I've got a Fred Flintstone 5.5 to re cover. steve

To me hand tool collectors who never use them. Who acquire them for bragging rights are the same as those old (sometimes in spirit only) goats who acquire old paintings for their eyes only. If a tool has something of its passed users in it. Would it "feel" better seating on someone's work bench or a vault?

I present for the wife could be a toaster over for you lol

About a year or so ago I began messing with hand planes. I used a process I found online called electrolysis on a rusty 1950’s-ish, nothing fancy try plane my dad had in his garage and had never used. I’ve not seen anyone use the process on RU-vid (not that I have searched extensively). Is there any particular reason for this or is it just not a well known process?

A small plane. So it's an ultralight?

After watching your bedrock plane restoration video, I have to ask how much you decreased the value of the number 1 with the restoration you did? You said that repainting the bedrock, repairing the tote or the knob all would decrease the collectible value. Since you did all of those to the #1, a very collectible plane, it’s value must have been greatly diminished. I know it is a friends plane and he asked you to restore it as you did, but did you tell him how much less his plane would be worth after you finished?

"... So I decided to redo the japanning--" *RECORD SCRATCH*

11th.

At first I thought, "Surrrrre it's not his... Sneaking one past the wife, huh" but then I thought there's no way it's his because he didn't paint it blue 😋

It still looks like it has white paint speckles on it... or is it just me?

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What is this, a plane for ants?

Remember a Stanley #1 plane restored is worth about 600.00 ..Unrestored in any condition is worth 1000.00. So think before you restore your #1.

Mate seriously just bye a little bench grinder with a wire wheel cmon

It was better before r estoration