Flat to 0.0002" - Stanley No.5 Jackplane hand scraped...

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Old school woodworking meets old school metalworking...
Here I take a £20 Stanley No.5 Jackplane that I bought at a car boot sale, and hand scrape it to be flat to within about 2 ten thousandths of an inch (0.0002").
Wood planes are cheap to buy second hand, so if you are a metalworker that wants a cheap source of cast iron to practice scraping on a wood plane is a cost effective way of practicing. What's more at the end of it you will have a highly capable hand woodworking tool that you can use yourself or sell to a woodworker.
In this video I am not advocating that you need to scrape a plane to less than 0.001" of flatness, or that this is a better way of flattening a plane than the traditional method of lapping on a flat surface with abrasive paper. For me this is the perfect way to practice the art of hand scraping whilst ending up with a perfectly flat plane that looks amazing.
Want to see it taking some shavings? See here - • Taking some shavings...

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  • @radboogie
    @radboogie3 ай бұрын

    Checkout the video of it taking some shavings here - kzread.info/dash/bejne/i6p90MiNg93Qg7g.html

  • @helion6884
    @helion68843 ай бұрын

    That level of tolerance is so beyond overkill for a hand plane that the exercise is absurd and beautiful in the best ways possible. I can absolutely see myself doing something similar just for the fun of finding out of it can be done. I love this process. The final result is beautiful and unique too with a great story

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Well said👍

  • @troystallard6895

    @troystallard6895

    3 ай бұрын

    I completely nerded out while watching this video. I not only like the looks of the scraped plane, I can see how it would be slippery. I have a couple of older Stanley planes that I've never properly paid attention to, and I'm on my way to googling scrapers....

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Give it a go - it's a very satisfying process and the end results are well worth it 👍

  • @DonDyarprecision

    @DonDyarprecision

    3 ай бұрын

    I knew this response was coming from one who cannot do it and certainly no experience with a truly flat handplane.

  • @SaintFredrocks

    @SaintFredrocks

    2 ай бұрын

    Some people just don't understand but you GET it.

  • @Budabaii
    @Budabaii3 ай бұрын

    I can't believe how much I enjoyed this 43 minute video. Fantastic.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @tissuepaper9962
    @tissuepaper99622 ай бұрын

    All that scraping was worth it for the aesthetics alone. Just gorgeous!

  • @user-dm8be1is4g
    @user-dm8be1is4g16 күн бұрын

    I love it. If someone thinks it's overkill they can go watch a video on the ins and outs of pocket screws, For me this is the kind of stuff that tickles me pink. I had always wanted to know more about scraping and so last week I went down the old rabbit hole and watched a bunch of videos about it. No reason other than curiosity. Being a wood worker who also has a soft spot for metal working this is the kind of content that I like. 30v years ago it would have taken me many trips to the libreary and many fruitless hours to learn about something so removed from my life.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    16 күн бұрын

    Thanks Jim - glad you liked it 👍 I know what you mean about the library, a lot of my learning back in the day was through books. Nothing quite like being able to hop onto KZread and watch a demonstration on pretty much anything that you want. Cheers

  • @williamfritz3052
    @williamfritz30523 ай бұрын

    While it is more common to flatten planes using sandpaper on flat plate, the pressure exerted on the body of the plane can cause distortion of the body. Scraping can prevent this because only small sections are worked at a time. My father was a machinist and I am a woodworker. Nice to see both skills combined. Thanks for a great instructional video.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you William 👍

  • @rebeccadonaldson1464
    @rebeccadonaldson14643 ай бұрын

    If you go further into Old School Woodworking you will come across a "Shooting Board." You can make your own or Stanley made a metal one with a special plane to go with it, but not many people bought that set. When using a Shooting Board to cut end grain accurately and most importantly square or to a set angle, you use a No. 5 Jack Plane ON ITS SIDE so your aesthetic scraping of the sides of the Plane will have more use than you even realise as you find more uses for your plane. Excellent video, thank you.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks Rebecca. I use a Stanley 4 1/2 as my dedicated shooting plane, it's too wide for most things but the extra weight is good for shooting. Squareness of the plane isn't actually a pre-requisite for shooting - kzread.info/dash/bejne/fX-ZqdCfeNjOprg.htmlsi=T6ZGDwP4y99RE80m&t=356

  • @joshwalker5605

    @joshwalker5605

    3 ай бұрын

    @@radboogie its not a prerequisite but it does make things easier if they're not out by too much. Lovely work, i love the way the scraped finish looks.

  • @doczoff5655

    @doczoff5655

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@radboogie Oh hey, I've got a 4 1/2 sat idle and unused, using it's extra width for shooting is a great idea, thank you.

  • @AnonymousAnarchist2
    @AnonymousAnarchist23 ай бұрын

    Well I know how to scrape.. And I have a rusty old hand plane.... And the operators and newbies will be shocked to see me pull out a calibrated hand plane..... and everyone else will laugh. You have convinced me

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Go for it! 👍

  • @juanignaciocaino
    @juanignaciocaino3 ай бұрын

    Having done this to my small planes, I bow to your patience.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks Juan, I was really glad to have a decent carbide scraper for this one 👍

  • @rickhickman2730
    @rickhickman27303 ай бұрын

    Did this to my #4, and my#8, which was fun & completely unnecessary. Glad I'm not alone in the craziness 😅

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    lol - spot on! 😂

  • @odinsprophet8849

    @odinsprophet8849

    3 ай бұрын

    How long did the 8 take?

  • @rickhickman2730

    @rickhickman2730

    3 ай бұрын

    @@odinsprophet8849 I had a significant dip between the area behind the mouth and the heel that I never got out, but getting everything else in plane took a few days at a few hours a day

  • @zxborg9681
    @zxborg96814 ай бұрын

    Kind of mind-blowing to see what one skilled and patient person can do with such a simple setup. Very cool work indeed.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    4 ай бұрын

    Thanks 👍It always amazes me how a 200 year old hand metalworking technique can produce better accuracy than most workshop machine tools.

  • @farrier2708
    @farrier27083 ай бұрын

    I thought I'd watch the first few minutes, just to see how you did it and stayed for the whole vid'. Nice one! It's always a delight to watch a Master at work. I had to renovate my Nr5 after a friend of mine(?) borrowed it and left it out in the rain for a week or two. After seeing this, I think I would have still have stuck with plate glass and emery. Doing it your way and after constantly correcting, I would probably have ended up with a base thinner than the undulations in your beautiful finish.

  • @daleskidmore1685
    @daleskidmore16852 ай бұрын

    I bought a second hand Jack plane and had it ground flat and the right hand side trued for using on a shooting board for joining guitar backs and fronts. still using it now, 32 years later. The sole is no longer flat, but I have moved along with the plane over the years. Although I may consider doing some work on it sometime. I have been given a couple over the years and set them up, but find it hard to use them.

  • @adrianmack3
    @adrianmack32 ай бұрын

    Good info. Never watched hand scraping before, so didn't understand how it was possible to get such a flat surface with hand scraping. Having said that, i work in machine shop (not trained in the trade however) making higher end hand planes, more specifically at the moment in the grinding department. Looking at that 4 1/2 Stanley, those lines you see on the sides are grinding step over lines. The body will be milled with a face mill to rough dimension, in a single pass, they wouldn't use such a narrow tool on a wide surface, at least not in a production environment. After milling it then gets ground to finish the surface, obviously in later Stanley's they didn't do a very fine finish. When i grind the planes at work, i leave a very refined surface, that's flat and sides perpendicular to the sole.

  • @groverw7507
    @groverw75073 ай бұрын

    Hand tooled metal finishing to incredible tolerances is my new youtube fascination! I was surprised to learn the old artisanal skill is still in use in machine shops and that the patterned micro pockets are good for retaining lubricant between sliding surfaces. Thanks for the lesson.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Fascinating to think that a 200 year old hand tooling technique can still out perform machined finishes in the modern era.

  • @lawmate

    @lawmate

    3 ай бұрын

    Some of the best high end cnc machines have hand scraped surfaces, but not on the sliding surfaces. When you have 2 parts that are bolted together, if both surfaces are scraped the whole surface will be in contact, which greatly increases rigidity and therefore accuracy of the machine

  • @marchebert9813
    @marchebert98133 ай бұрын

    Steel, even hardened tool steel, is like very hard bubble gum. It will flex. It will move as you've so well illustrated. It fascinates me that we think we're so advanced now with high speed mills, hard mills, cnc wire machines etc. that we could have never reached there without the old school technology and techniques like this video shows. Excellent video.

  • @jcsrst
    @jcsrst2 ай бұрын

    Fascinating! What a beautiful finish! I wonder how the plane restoration purists would feel about this technique? I've never seen any one flatten a plane this way but i find it VERY appealing and will attempt it myself. Good to have a metal worker's perspective on restoring a wood working tool. The side of the plane can be used on a shooting board and I have a habbit of using the plane on that face with out a shooting board but on a flat surface. When ever I restore a plane I make sure the sides are 90 degrees to the face. Such a shame that a company like Stanley would make such a crappy plane, it damages their reputation and turns people off.

  • @planespeaking
    @planespeaking3 ай бұрын

    A hand scraped blade just featured on JackEnglishMachines channel (recommended) and whilst it might not be necessary, it got one hell of a shaving. Beautiful result. I'm sure a few obsessive wood workers would pay to get this done.

  • @rcdogmanduh4440
    @rcdogmanduh44402 ай бұрын

    So many new Machinist could learn so much from just this video!

  • @marceloiannini8199
    @marceloiannini81993 ай бұрын

    So now I know there are at least two hand scraped wooden handplanes in the world! I scraped my poor man's cheapo Stanley (not a Bailey). It came perfect.

  • @corwinchristensen260
    @corwinchristensen2603 ай бұрын

    The sides of the plane being flat and square with the sole allows you to use it with a "shooting board" so you can precisely square up (or cut precise angles) on the ends or short sides of boards. This is an excellent platform to learn to hand scrape. Even the most club-fisted amateur is unlikely to render the plane unusable. (Short of breaking the casting itself of course.)

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes, planes are an excellent source of cheap yet good quality cast iron for scraping practice. As you say the worst case scenario for a beginner would be to make their plane slightly flatter than it was before 👍

  • @KnowArt
    @KnowArt4 ай бұрын

    cool idea! when I saw the thumbnail I first thought "oh, not /another/ damascus video on youtube", but this is 1000x better. I'd love to scrape something flat some day

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    4 ай бұрын

    lol I know what you mean about the Damascus look. Internet rule #3408 "If something exists, someone on the internet has made one out of Damascus steel." 😂

  • @Itoyokofan

    @Itoyokofan

    3 ай бұрын

    Hmmmmm.... That's actually an interesting idea to make a sword with this pattern instead of Damascus.

  • @frogandspanner
    @frogandspanner2 ай бұрын

    I have often said that genius is seeing the obvious before others, but this video shows that realising that something is simple is genius.

  • @qshed
    @qshed3 ай бұрын

    When I was an apprentice one of my engineers used to work for Wicksteed engineering making power hacksaws. They would hand scrape the slide ways on them. He told me the supervisor would know who had done each one by the individuals scrape patterns.

  • @gmsteve455
    @gmsteve4552 ай бұрын

    This is fantastic, great job. I'm also a metal worker and a wood worker and have thought about scraping a hand plane like this but have never done it. Maybe this is the inspiration I need to move forward. Excellent video.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    2 ай бұрын

    Go for it!

  • @bryceettwell9537
    @bryceettwell95372 ай бұрын

    Richard, Love your work. That plane should absolutely sing when you use it. Very nicely explained and demonstrated, it reminded me of my Apprentice days nearly 50 years ago. BRAVO, BRAVO!!

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you Bryce - glad you enjoyed it 👍

  • @Landrew0
    @Landrew02 ай бұрын

    I'll never understand why anyone would find a video about hand scraping interesting.

  • @thechasecomplex
    @thechasecomplex2 ай бұрын

    Ahh. Beautiful work and an educational experience. Thanks Rich, I didn’t know how much I wanted an engineers plate in my shop until now. ❤

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    2 ай бұрын

    Thanks Chase, glad you enjoyed it! Really handy having a dead flat reference surface sometimes 👍

  • @markbrown9765
    @markbrown97653 ай бұрын

    When a machinist brings his ever present obsession with precision to a wood working tool. Loved it.

  • @brucen4719
    @brucen47193 ай бұрын

    Fascinating! Incredible video- thanks for sharing your expertise!

  • @DominikRicker
    @DominikRicker3 ай бұрын

    Love it - the shown technique and the beautiful look of it.

  • @bradpigott8883
    @bradpigott88833 ай бұрын

    I'm glad you explained why you left the blade in the plane, made sense once you mentioned why. Great video.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks. It turns out that leaving the blade in might turn out to be a bit of an urban myth according to some of the other comments here. I might have to do a follow up video to test that out! Thanks for checking in 👍

  • @apinakapinastorba
    @apinakapinastorba3 ай бұрын

    It looks really beautiful. Great job!

  • @rootvalue
    @rootvalue3 ай бұрын

    I don’t have any insight to add, just want to offer my appreciation that you’ve shared your journey with us.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks for checking in 👍

  • @gurudasbock
    @gurudasbock3 ай бұрын

    Loved this video. I have restored many hand planes and this is the wildest approach I’ve seen yet. Love the detailed information and the final look!

  • @robertlevine2152
    @robertlevine21523 ай бұрын

    I have not seen this done before. This is the first, and I like firsts. The sides of the plane must be flat and perpendicular to the bottom of the plane if you intend to use it on a shooting board. The mouth should be flat so that when the shaving is made it breaks cleanly. With that said the flatness of your plane far exceeds the true need for a Jack plane. You do beautiful work.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you Robert.

  • @slartimus
    @slartimus3 ай бұрын

    Ridiculously unnecessary and also ridiculously amazing. Fine work!

  • @MAsWorld1
    @MAsWorld12 ай бұрын

    Never heard of machine scraping (in my 50yrs as a tradesman ) just ordered a scraper! Love the antiquated but very accurate technique!! Thankyou

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    2 ай бұрын

    I'm glad you found it interested - congratulations on entering the wonderful World of scraping and best of luck with it 👍

  • @Solid_Jackson
    @Solid_JacksonАй бұрын

    Really good video! And well presented in a totally upfront and honest way No trendy cuts or cutaways 👍

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    Ай бұрын

    Thanks mate, I try to keep the "showbiz" to a minimum 👍

  • @MattLitkeRacing
    @MattLitkeRacing3 ай бұрын

    I appreciate the dedication

  • @chevyimp5857
    @chevyimp58573 ай бұрын

    This technique is new to me and I'm loving it.. thanks for taking the time

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Glad you like it!

  • @Rockwoodworkshop
    @Rockwoodworkshop3 ай бұрын

    Subscribed! The algorithm took its time with this channel!

  • @ombhurbhuva3113
    @ombhurbhuva31133 ай бұрын

    Beautiful work. Well worth a watch to see such precision got by hand tools.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks. It really is amazing that using hand tools and 200 year old techniques it's possible to achieve more precision than some modern day machine tools.

  • @nickk6109
    @nickk61092 ай бұрын

    Running board can give you a nice 90 degree edge to the wood.. Nice flattening - both of my two new planes took several hours of flattening.

  • @stabilityball
    @stabilityball3 ай бұрын

    Great info for getting real results! Its easily worth the money and time when you have a properly set up piece of equipment.

  • @faisletoismeme
    @faisletoismeme3 ай бұрын

    It's marvelous getting a glimpse into an unknown technique... Thanks for the demonstration.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Glad you liked it!

  • @nibus126
    @nibus1263 ай бұрын

    very usefull, thanks for sharing

  • @emberklavins9567
    @emberklavins95673 ай бұрын

    I did this to my great grandfather's hand plane (that I now use day-to-day) a while back! It's totally overkill but I love the way the sole holds wax and simply skates along the surface of the wood now, I might flake it at some point to improve that further.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Beautiful. The way I look at it, being too flat is never a problem 👍 I'd love to be able to do the flaking, that would look superb!

  • @RobRobertson1000
    @RobRobertson10003 ай бұрын

    Wow, would love to actually feel the effect in use. Thanks heaps Richard!

  • @davidjennings9253
    @davidjennings92534 ай бұрын

    Hi Richard - I thoroughly enjoyed your video. I am a retired engineer and havent seen any scrapping since the late 70s. I needed to measure some huge parabolic reflectors back then which I needed to set up on an 8' x 10' surface table and take readings with slip gauges and a telescope. Before I could begin this process a contractor was brought in to scrape the table. He was probably in his seventies and had been scraping for many years and had incredible muscle memory. Once he had flattened the table he went over the whole surface in what he described as a hounds tooth pattern. It was beautiful and you would swear it had been done by machine or robot as it was perfection. I have restored many planes over the years and have to admit I prefer Record to Stanley as I have always found the surface finish to be superior. Those 80s onward Stanleys look to have been finished on a belt sander rather than grinding and are very coarse indeed. Incidently I have always been intrigued by the thinking that you must keep the frog in place under tension. I could never see that the way the frog is mounted could have an effect and I was proved right. I have set up all my restorations on my surface table held in place by magnets on the extreme edges and measured them with a DTI and have never registered even a 0.0005" difference with the frog in place or removed. I do use a scaper ocassionally but mine is made from a very old 50s file, ground to a smooth finish and it keeps it's edge beautifully. I have not used it on a plane though as I find it much quicker to lap them but I can see that a scraped finish is probably superior as there is far less friction. I have to admit that I prefer woodworking to metalworking these days as it is much cleaner. I will look out for your videos as they are most enjoyable. Keep up the good work.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    4 ай бұрын

    Thanks David, so glad you enjoyed the video. It must have been quite something to see that chap scrape in an 8' x 10' table! Belt sanding would make sense on the late model Stanleys and account for the shocking finish and lack of flatness, my bench grinder is 36 grit on the coarse wheel and would give a much better finish than that. Either that or they ground them on an old mill stone 😂 Thanks for sharing your findings on flatness with the frog removed, I was thinking of doing some similar tests to see if it's just another of those myths. I might run some tests for flatness with the plane coming out of a freezer near zero degrees and again out of an oven at 40C to see what effect heat has on it. Academic interest of course! All the best - Richard

  • @jsmxwll

    @jsmxwll

    3 ай бұрын

    i'm pretty sure that it is a holdover from wooden planes and wedges. there is a serious impact there. i have also measured some difference on a garbage indian plane that i have, but it is a mess in a number of ways. the frog only sits on 3 of the 4 contacts unless you crank it down. someone along the way might have had a similarly bad plane and seen the difference and propagated it again? @@radboogie

  • @groverw7507

    @groverw7507

    3 ай бұрын

    Interesting comments, lapping would seem to be easier though not as eye catching as these beautifully scraped surfaces. Having the frog and iron mounted and tightened during scraping would add beneficial rigidity to the plane for scraping purposes, no?

  • @davidjennings9253

    @davidjennings9253

    3 ай бұрын

    As I said before I have never been able to detect any measurable change in the sole with the frog in or out of postion. I think you have to consider how the frog is fitted. It is sitting on four pads with the mounting screws roughly central on the thickest part of the sole casting. It is fairly obvious that the tightening of the screws is unlikely to have any effect. If the frog extended to the very ends of the sole it may make a change but as it is, not likely. I have measured every plane I have restored from No 3 - No 8s and they were all the same which is probably because irrispective of sole size the frog size is very similar.

  • @bigoldgrizzly

    @bigoldgrizzly

    3 ай бұрын

    One likely problem with modern [ie. younger than me ;

  • @andydepaule3296
    @andydepaule32964 ай бұрын

    Saw this just in time since I'm restoring a couple of old planes. Thanks.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    4 ай бұрын

    Nice one! Good luck with your restoration projects 👍

  • @fulconelis
    @fulconelis3 ай бұрын

    Amazing video. Love your explanation of the process, keep on doing your thing!!

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Will do 👍

  • @mikeamboy7292
    @mikeamboy72923 ай бұрын

    I have never seen this done before! Awesome, thanks for sharing.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks Mike, glad to be able to share a 200 year old technique 👍

  • @bigoldgrizzly
    @bigoldgrizzly3 ай бұрын

    One thing to note is that at this sort of tolerance, the flatness will vary according to how much tension you put on the blade via the lever cap and screw. This job needs to be done, as you did, with the fully assembled plane set with the cap tensioned as it will be in use. I find filing and scraping quite therapeutic these days, certainly more so than at school when given a very rough cast 'cube' to file and scrape to a 1" cube, square on all sides and with faces flat to within 1 thou - not the sort of education the kids get these days ;

  • @JimPudar
    @JimPudar4 ай бұрын

    What a fun idea! Nice work.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Cheers!

  • @paulnoble8695
    @paulnoble86953 ай бұрын

    Brilliant, thank you; great info' and such a clear demonstration of this disappearing art. My apologies in advance, if I offered some, but i love the surface appearance left by this technique. Worth doing for that alone. Thank you.

  • @hansdruf9132
    @hansdruf91323 ай бұрын

    This Video is Pure Gold.

  • @PPG9944
    @PPG99443 ай бұрын

    I will have to keep this in the back of my head that it is possible. Thank you

  • @markh5889
    @markh58893 ай бұрын

    Nice video. I have always wanted to try hand scraping, Being lazy I usually just flatten my planes on a piece of 3/8" glass and some wet and dry paper. Thanks for the tutorial.

  • @jiminycricket9877
    @jiminycricket98772 ай бұрын

    Nicely done. 👍

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you - Cheers!

  • @coolcat1813
    @coolcat18133 ай бұрын

    Great! Love that appearance.

  • @colinpain4892
    @colinpain48923 ай бұрын

    My number 5 was about as bad as this when I bought it and this seems to be much quicker than the usual sanding process I used. Well explained too, thank you

  • @colinpain4892

    @colinpain4892

    3 ай бұрын

    Love the look too

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks Colin. Scraping can be quite quick when you get the knack of it, I find it a much more enjoyable process than lapping on paper too.

  • @DamianSheesh
    @DamianSheesh3 ай бұрын

    This is really beautiful mate, lovely work.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Cheers Damian 👍

  • @magicponyrides
    @magicponyrides2 ай бұрын

    You're an artist, Richard!

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much 👍

  • @SvenOlavSolvold
    @SvenOlavSolvold4 ай бұрын

    Great job! Love the finish. :)

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you! 😊

  • @dujbzy8119
    @dujbzy81193 ай бұрын

    I really enjoyed the content here, thanks for showing me something new mate

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed it 👍

  • @bertRaven1
    @bertRaven13 ай бұрын

    fantastic video.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much!

  • @michaelmitchell1496
    @michaelmitchell14963 ай бұрын

    Thank you, Richard. I feel richer, having learned about this process. I never knew that cast could be worked in such a way. My Bailey number five may soon benefit.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you Michael, I highly recommend giving it a go - it's a very satisfying process and end result 👍

  • @henrihiggins4187
    @henrihiggins41873 ай бұрын

    Never having worked with metal I found this video to be truly fascinating and informative and I agree with some of the other comments that the end result is aesthetically stunning. Thank you

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you, that is everything I hoped for with the video 👍

  • @tommylee6267
    @tommylee62673 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the video! Very interesting and may try it one day!

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks Tommy, it's a very rewarding skill to practice.

  • @tn7198
    @tn7198Ай бұрын

    I did this as a fun way to flatten cheap number 4 style plane that was very out of whack. You can use a HSS woodturning scraper blade, or almost anything as you mention if you are willing to sharpen it up frequently. I marked crosshatches with sharpie and ran it on sandpaper over glass as my alternative to using the blue. The scraping method struck me as a faster way to take off loads of material. And it is! I went too far in a few spots--got lazy about going back to the sandpaper after every round--but was able to end up with a very flat ring around the mouth and the overall circumference--so it's like a japanese plane now in that it has a hollow in the non-critical area in front of the mouth. The plane works great. Anyone can do it, especially if you use more patience than I did.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    Ай бұрын

    Nice one. It's surprising how quickly you can rough off metal with a scraper. I find it a much more enjoyable process than lapping, looks great too 👍

  • @tn7198

    @tn7198

    Ай бұрын

    @@radboogie Your work is really outstanding, awesome channel!

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    Ай бұрын

    @@tn7198 thanks mate, I'm glad you like it 👍

  • @pingwax.
    @pingwax.3 ай бұрын

    The finish on the plane is fantastic, it looks great. That's some real time and effort. I don't know much about scraping, but you seem to have a nice touch for consistent depth on your strokes. This composition of your video was also fantastic. Nicely well edited, great pacing, great picture and audio quality. Your narration is excellent! Everything about this was really enjoyable! Thanks for all of the work this must have taking to put together.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it 👍

  • @liamsherry3221
    @liamsherry32214 ай бұрын

    that finish looks awesome

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    4 ай бұрын

    It feels really slick too, nice to hold in the hand and glides over the wood.

  • @justtim9767
    @justtim97672 ай бұрын

    Very nice.

  • @varun009
    @varun0093 ай бұрын

    I like this because we take precision for granted these days. I was looking at a nut and bolt the other day. So much work and years of iron mining, metallurgy, establishing universal systems of measurement, designing the first screw then finally coming up with the machinery to precisely cut or roll those grooves on just for us to consider it scrap metal if we have no immediate use for it. If we regressed because of some earth shattering event, we would have to relearn so much that we'd just be techno barbarians.

  • @jbickel7575
    @jbickel75753 ай бұрын

    This was simply wonderful! A terrific melding of woodworking and precision metal working. I’ve seen granite surface plates “lapped in”, but never really seen metal scraping performed. Well done, sir!

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much!

  • @pauldixon6654
    @pauldixon66543 ай бұрын

    oooow you genius. you say hope you find interesting. im glued a massive well done.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Cheers!

  • @horsetowater
    @horsetowater3 ай бұрын

    1:52 I'm glad you mentioned the tote & knob as they looked a bit spesh ❤nice job

  • @dixonqwerty
    @dixonqwerty3 ай бұрын

    Excellent job mate!!

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Cheers 👍

  • @brandontscheschlog
    @brandontscheschlog3 ай бұрын

    Love it! Its Beautiful !

  • @paavokoskinen4518

    @paavokoskinen4518

    2 ай бұрын

    Jännä sattuma, itse tein tuon saman noin 5 vuotta sitten. Graniittitaso siniverinen ja tuo kaavintyökalu. Se oli tosin viisasta tehty kaavin eli hiiliterästä.

  • @michaelallenyarbrough9503
    @michaelallenyarbrough95033 ай бұрын

    Wow, really cool video! The gauging section around 41:00 made me feel good way down deep in my testicles. And I loved how the scraper sound seemed to be saying “scrape scrape scrape.” Looking forward to the day when I might get to do this, and I might try it with a file and my own planes. Thanks!!

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks Michael, the scraping process is immensely satisfying - therapeutic even. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and the best of luck when you pick up a scraper!

  • @glenngonzalez2647
    @glenngonzalez26473 ай бұрын

    Very informative! The finish alone is worth the effort! I think I might have a crack at it now. 👍🏻

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks, it's a very rewarding process 👍 Go for it!

  • @bobluthier3031
    @bobluthier30313 ай бұрын

    great video, and crazy timing...i just got my stanley #5 back from the machine shop i work at. had it face milled and it came back +/- .0002. super excited about it! going to lap out the tooling marks this weekend. yours looks fantastic! wish we could have seen it take a shaving.thank you for sharing and cheers from vermont

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks Bob, great idea getting your plane milled flat - will save a lot of elbow grease! All the best - Richard

  • @ashadowawhisper
    @ashadowawhisper2 ай бұрын

    You DO use the sides of a hand plane. Use it for shooting boards when jointing perpendicular and mitered glue joints. For that you not only want the sides to be flat/coplanar, but also perfectly square to the sole. Don’t forget to break the edges or the toe and sides will cut/slice your wood.

  • @otterconnor942

    @otterconnor942

    2 ай бұрын

    Nerd

  • @Bianchi77
    @Bianchi773 ай бұрын

    Creative video, thanks :)

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Glad you liked it!

  • @tallanvor
    @tallanvor3 ай бұрын

    This is some mighty fine work, you've done! Congrats on being a fine craftsman and a fine instructor as well. Learned more -unintentionally- here, than in a handscraping 101 video a year or so ago :D

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much! 👍

  • @ThomasMoore.1
    @ThomasMoore.13 ай бұрын

    Excellent video 👏

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much!

  • @DonsWoodies
    @DonsWoodies3 ай бұрын

    Retired machinist here. Regularly worked to ±.0001" or less on high end powder compaction tooling. Never did hand scraping myself, but I'd seen it done on our machines during recalibration. It's a lovely process and you've demonstrated it beautifully. I remember back in my early ways in the early 70's reading a story about John Moore Sr. taking a customer thru his plant. They came across a guy doing the final scraping on the bed of a Jig Grinder before assembly. Moore asked him how it's going and the response was "I'm almost there, we're down to 50 millionths."

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks Don 👍Great story about John Moore, 50 millionths - half a tenth? Blimey I should think just breathing on that would change the dimensions 😂

  • @DonsWoodies

    @DonsWoodies

    3 ай бұрын

    @@radboogie Yea, that is some insane tolerances. Speaking of just breathing in it - here’s a story for you We had a Starrett precision level that we used when installing a new machine. We’d get the machine close with regular levels then put the Starrett one on. Leave it sit for half hour or so to settle before starting with it. First time I saw it move our mechanic asked me over and said “Watch this “. He leaned over about 8 inches away from it and just breathed slightly on it. I watched the bubble move two lines on the scale. Each line meant .0005” per foot. Now he says we have to wait a few minutes for it to settle again. Just crazy.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Wow, amazing levels of accuracy there! Almost makes you afraid to even look at something that sensitive for fear of putting it out of calibration 👍

  • @donepearce

    @donepearce

    3 ай бұрын

    @@DonsWoodies And then you watch your workpiece start to glow as you machine it and wonder if all your calibration work was really for nothing.

  • @dennisobrien3618

    @dennisobrien3618

    3 ай бұрын

    I read a book by Moore that I think was called "Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy". It's amazing what goes into high precision tooling. I think Moore was the first company that made a measuring machine that could be repeatably positioned down to a millionth of an inch. It's hard to measure beyond that without special metrology, like interferometers or electron microscopes.

  • @nerdsunscripted624
    @nerdsunscripted6243 ай бұрын

    I just took mine to a very nice mill and milled a couple thousands off of it to get it accurate within roughly 2-3 10,000ths

  • @taylorboyd3308
    @taylorboyd33083 ай бұрын

    That’s a very pretty finish!

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks Taylor, it does sparkle in the light 👍

  • @pekkahilden6802
    @pekkahilden68023 ай бұрын

    That was interesting to see how it is done👍

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it 👍

  • @jessestrum
    @jessestrum4 ай бұрын

    great video richard i,m a woodworker with interest in metal work , i,ll bet that glides over the wood lovely

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    4 ай бұрын

    Thanks, yes it's a beautiful silky finish, a pleasure to use 👍

  • @ashtonjanke1678
    @ashtonjanke16784 ай бұрын

    Nice job man! I never thought of scraping in the sole. Might have to give it a try. Thank you!

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    4 ай бұрын

    Go for it!

  • @WillswoodworkingYEG
    @WillswoodworkingYEG3 ай бұрын

    brilliant

  • @arimunic
    @arimunic3 ай бұрын

    Man, I'd watch a timelapse of the entire scraping process if you put that up. Great work!

  • @buddynewman8949
    @buddynewman89493 ай бұрын

    excellent explanation

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Glad you liked it!

  • @connormatthews522
    @connormatthews5223 ай бұрын

    there is something strangely appealing about the idea of doing this lol, quite zen

  • @wdbbrinton
    @wdbbrinton3 ай бұрын

    That is true artwork

  • @steven_vogt
    @steven_vogt3 ай бұрын

    Sooooo cool and interesting 👏👏👏👏

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it

  • @garysgarage101
    @garysgarage1013 ай бұрын

    That plane looks hot. I’m just getting into power scraping with a new build I’m experimenting with. Great job.

  • @radboogie

    @radboogie

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks Gary. Are you using a Biax?

  • @garysgarage101

    @garysgarage101

    3 ай бұрын

    @@radboogie I wish. I’m just about done my power scraper build. Check out the last few videos related to the build on my channel. I have one more to post which is the complete machine.

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