Traditional Wooden Handplanes is the essential reference for hand tool enthusiasts! Learn how to: Restore, make, modify & use traditional wood handplanes - Tune up a new plane to get the best performance - Sharpen plane blades - Make a set of 6 types of this style of plane with Step by step instructions - Set up a flea market find In a world of heavy and expensive handplanes, traditional wood handplanes are affordable, light in weight, low in friction, comfortable to use, and available in a wide variety of blade angles. Author and woodworking instructor Scott Wynn has been working with this versatile tool for four decades. In Traditional Wooden Handplanes he shows you how to make, modify, restore, and use antique planes. Scott reveals how traditional wood planes work, how to set up a flea market find, and how to tune up a new plane for peak performance. You'll learn about the different types and how to use them to their best advantage; which blade angles are best, which blade steel you might want to use, and finally, how to make your own set of planes using some modern techniques that simplify construction and improve performance. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "Traditional Wooden Handplanes" is the ideal instruction guide and manual and unreservedly recommended for personal, highschool woodshop, and community library Woodworking instructional reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists. -- The Midwest Book Review Learn how to make, modify, restore, and use traditional wooden handplanes. Discover the different types and how to use them to their best advantage; how to tune up a new plane for peak performance; and how to make your own set of planes. Discover Traditional Wooden Handplanes If you have work to do in solid hardwood, traditional wooden handplanes excel in efficiency and work better than any other style of plane. These planes are affordable, light in weight, low in friction, comfortable to use, and available in a wide variety of blade angles. Author and woodworking instructor Scott Wynn shows you how to modify, restore, and use antique planes in this guide for today's woodworker. Scott reveals how traditional wood planes work, how to set up a flea market find, and how to tune up a new plane for peak performance. You'll learn about the different types and how to use them to their best advantage; which blades angles are best, which blade steel to use, and how to make your own set of planes using modern techniques that simplify construction. "The author's woodworking and tool expertise is clearly evident" —Woodshop News "Scott Wynn really knows his stuff" —Sawdust & Shavings "Beginners and experts alike will find all kinds of helpful information" —Highland Woodworking Blog "Immensely practical...of interest to virtually any woodworker" —The Australian Woodworker "A 'must have' book for anyone who loves and uses handplanes" —Canadian Woodworking & Home Improvement A fourth generation craftsman, Scott Wynn brings a lifetime of involvement in craft, art, and design to his work. He has a broad base of hands-on experience as a carpenter, cabinetmaker, woodcarver, luthier, building contractor, and architectural designer. Scott has maintained a professional shop providing furniture, cabinetry, and woodcarving since 1976. Author of The Woodworker's Guide to Handplanes , he has written and illustrated articles on the craft of woodworking for Fine Homebuilding , Fine Woodworking , and Woodwork magazines.