How to Use a Hand Plane (The Correct Method)

In this video, you'll learn the principles and the fundamentals for clean, consistent, accurate planing. This is not a video on how to sharpen a plane. This is not a video on how to setup a plane. It's a video on how to use a plane.

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RECOMMENDED VIDEOS:
👉How To Sharpen a Plane
https://youtu.be/oUAu6oO2_5Y
👉How To Setup a Plane
https://youtu.be/KrXQzjANuCA
👉How To Saw Correctly
https://youtu.be/6eptpkEZJk8
👉Putting a Plane on its Sole (Paul Sellers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOlLVtz3RCI
👉Reducing Tearout (Old video, sorry!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fGqh42lSM0
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CHAPTERS:
😤 Getting Impatient? Skip to the good stuff below: ⬇️
00:00 Intro
00:41 Body Positioning
01:58 Using your Legs
04:06 Gripping The Plane
07:45 Using the Plane
07:53 Matts' Rant
09:42 Grain Direction
14:09 Using Candlewax
14:41 Transferring Pressure
17:00 Skewing the Plane
20:29 Outtro
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