How to Get a Hand Plane Blade Scary Sharp in 90 Seconds - Essential Woodworking Skills

Great video, thank you for sharing
I'd like to ask, can I use a sharpening stone from Harbor Freight? It's the price range I need. Will it suffice?

This video is about how to get a planer sharp in 90 seconds but the video is fourteen minutes long

That Veritas jig must be the most uncomfortable and cumbersome one out there. Their parallel jaw offering is way better, more so than the LN if I may say so. I've tried every method of sharpening under the sun and always gone back to a jig for repeatability and precision. Just don't push it forward (rounds the edge) or strop (rounds the edge). Start on diamond stone(s) and finish on a fine water stone with a small micro bevel up another couple of degrees. Keep the iron dead flat or use the Charlesworth ruler trick. Job done.

I learned a lot thank you.

I just cannot sharpen my plane blade. Do I need something more than 1000/3000 grit, or should that get it to a decent edge? There’s almost no progress to show for 100+ strokes on each grit. There is a polished bevel now, but when I test it, it’s barely sharp. Help!

I would LOVE some input on a situation: A great-grandfather had an oddly shaped grindstone that I think is quite emotional to me, but should I let someone cut it so I can sharpen my kitchen knifes on it? It's shaped like a stone-age rough sledgehammer without a hole, but he sharpened his blades on one half of the curved nside. An architect and furniture carpenter, working his planes to the core. I have a stack of different exotic wood pieces from the 1800s (his dad's), a pristine teak leveller with brass adjustable labelles, a hand-saw with beautiful carved teak handle, and tools and nick-nacks and so-forths. But that grindstone speaks to me, it's hold so much history. But leave it be, or let someone cut it straight? I could not be more torn between the options. It's so much used It would not wonder me if it was from the early 1700s. I've seen an old tool or two in my life.

I know how to sharpen knives pretty well, I've done it by hand for 20 years at work and at home. I'm very confident in it, I would never do this man wrong. I'm doing 32.5 degrees at P2000 now. (Guess which line of family who thaught me that when I was 11 years old 🙂). I'm second to last in line for these things, I'll tell my niece about the significance when she grows up. Cut, or no cut?

Good sharpening is not about good luck. It is about the right tools & know-how.

I've been doing it all wrong. Thanks for the lesson

Incredibly useful video
I'll be honest mine is not as beautiful especially without guide, and I still stuggle to set up the hand planer. BUT I progressed a lot in a short time thanks to this channel 😄

Low angle planes don't really benefit from a secondary angle.

do ou have a link to the veratas jig?

So trying to build a workbench to make stuff; need a plane tool to get the surface, need a angle jig and grindstone to sharpen the plane tool to make a bench to make stuff; roger!

wow thats wicked sharp. i was just gonna hit ut with the bench grinder 😅thanks for sharing !!

Couldn't the Polishing step be cut and just use 3000/Strop?

Wow. I so regret taking my brand new plane and attacking my 'scraping on my kitchen floor', door now. I guess it gives me the chance to practice my ninja blade sharpening technique. Just getting into working with wood. You make me realise how far there is to go. Great vid, mate.

The only thing missing is how much to budget for all these toys simply to sharpen a tiny blade.

I cannot emphasize enough....just the tip!

I am having a plane blade with carbide tip. Having tough time to put it for first use. Only diamond stones are able to remove material from the plane. I don’t yet have whetstones higher than 170 grit. I will be getting 400 and 1000 grit diamond whetstones which may help to get better finish than now. But I seriously doubt if I will be able to successfully strop this carbide tip plane. I would really appreciate a guidance on carbide tipped plane.

Do you push the iron down on the stone while I using it away from you or pulling it back towards you? Thanknyou.

All the video for making a jig to set sharpening jig have an angle meter, wow what is missing, if I had the angle meter I wouldn’t need the jig, what are the inches, yards, miles from the edge of the block to the stop block for setting the chisel or what ever. The measurement needed is missing.

Hi Jonathan, great video. I cant seem to achieve anywhere near this with a double sided oil stone. I must be doing something wrong lol! I will keep trying though

I'm a fan of Matt Estlea and by you mentioning him positively in your video talks a lot about your great ethics my friend, thanks for your great video and I'm happily subscribing to your channel

Excellent

90 sec but 15 min video

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I inherited a set of really nice hand planes and now I know how to keep them sharp, thank you!

Jonathon, I've been an educator at the university level for more than 35 years. Your presentation/teaching style exemplifies among the best that I've seen in all my career. Your teaching is clear, easy to follow, and quite thorough. Bravo to you and your channel. I can see why you have over 475K subscribers. Keep doing what you do so well!

After almost 30 years as a turner, I am getting into this phase of woodworking. Little to no experience with water stones. I did find out that DMT now makes 4000 and 8000 grit lapping plates. Waiting for them to arrive, but I won't have to mess with the water bath part, which is rather messy.... Funny thing about the stropping compounds. They are all different, and color has nothing to do with grit. ARGH!!!! Going with another DMT product, their polishing pastes, up to 16000 grit or 1 micron.

He the smartest tool in that shed!!

I just wore out the end of my skin on my pointer finger but the results Kick-Ass

Thanks

Is it just me, or did anyone else twitch and bristle every time he gestures with his hands within inches of a razor sharp blade?

Just the tip?

Is this for minor repair because my blades need to at least start at 220 grit due to chips in the steal. Usually this is from me planning only two sides of a board. Watching everyone makes me feel I need better blades.

Just the tip.............

This works, sharpened 6 planes yesterday, thank you.

"How to get a hand plane blade scary sharp in 90 seconds" but, the video is 14 MINUTES long?

Hi there great video. I am about to buy some water stones to sharpen my block stanley no 4 plane. What stone grades did you say use for this purpose? Thank you in advance, Chris

Thank you, I appreciate your valuable information

Excellent video Jonathan. I was wondering how sharp the blade would be before the strop? Does the strop really give the edge the best sharpness?

What a load of SHxxT

I Got .25 through this XXAP YOURE FULL OF yes you guest it

I just went by my grandpa and needed a hand plane, but i didnt know he had such a nice stanley one, but i dont have any wayer or diamond stones

For me as a metal person it is very interesting to see these planes. Honestly I have never seen a "standard" low angle plane" before. I did not even know they existed. I actually never held a plane made from steel in my hands. It really seems as if german carpentership is somewhat behind in that field. All I am used to is those nasty wooden planes that no one expect a zen master can set up right.

Finally got scary sharp thanks to this video - BTW, you link for the polishing compound is the same as the link for the stones.

Just the tip