{"id":56637,"date":"2020-04-24T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=56637"},"modified":"2020-04-23T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:04:02","slug":"how-sharp-is-your-plane-paul-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/04\/24\/how-sharp-is-your-plane-paul-sellers\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sharp is your Plane? | Paul Sellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AFItd2yCA7o\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Paul Sellers<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 23 Apr 2020<\/p>\n<p>So you think you can sharpen your plane every few days. I wanted to dispel that mystery. <\/p>\n<p>Planes need sharpening according to how much energy you need to make it cut. Experience has shown me that most woodworkers push their planes to the very limits of dullness. It&#8217;s a pure uneconomic waste of energy. I put this together to say Sharpen Up!<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about sharpening a plane, see our video on Woodworking Masterclasses: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2yGhyfq\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2yGhyfq<\/a> or for a beginner friendly guide, see Common Woodworking: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2x6xeIM\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2x6xeIM<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more about woodworking?<\/p>\n<p>Go to Woodworking Masterclasses for weekly project episodes: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2JeH3a9\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2JeH3a9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go to Common Woodworking for step-by-step beginner guides and courses: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/35VQV2o\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/35VQV2o<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2BXmuei\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2BXmuei<\/a> for Paul\u2019s latest ventures on his blog <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Paul Sellers<\/strong><br \/>\n4 hours ago (edited)<br \/>\nOh my! I forgot to mention that I&#8217;m planing Texas MESQUITE! Almost two times harder and more densely grained than oak! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-24-How-Sharp-is-your-Plane-Paul-Sellers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-24-How-Sharp-is-your-Plane-Paul-Sellers-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-56639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-24-How-Sharp-is-your-Plane-Paul-Sellers-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-24-How-Sharp-is-your-Plane-Paul-Sellers-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-24-How-Sharp-is-your-Plane-Paul-Sellers-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-24-How-Sharp-is-your-Plane-Paul-Sellers-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_2020-04-24-How-Sharp-is-your-Plane-Paul-Sellers.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Sellers Published 23 Apr 2020 So you think you can sharpen your plane every few days. I wanted to dispel that mystery. Planes need sharpening according to how much energy you need to make it cut. Experience has shown me that most woodworkers push their planes to the very limits of dullness. It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,161],"tags":[1140,1177,1232,1198],"class_list":["post-56637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","category-woodworking","tag-handtools","tag-paulsellers","tag-planes","tag-sharpening"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-eJv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56640,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56637\/revisions\/56640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}