The Better Way to Get a Plane to Stop Cutting

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Making “stop shavings” – where the plane cuts only one part of the board – is one of the keys to better edge joints and lots of other handplane techniques. But few people in my hand-tool classes have ever been told how to do it right. Most people do it like they are taking off on a runway. They start pushing the tool where the cut should begin and then […]

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