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

In this woodworking skills video I show you how to get a hand plane scary sharp in about 90 seconds. Sharpen your hand plane this way for excellent results, shavings and maximum hand tool woodworking enjoyment. Thanks for watching! Please like, comment and subscribe. Cheers!
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[Exiledk]

Having mastered this, I no longer need to shave. I just plane my face....

[imcg]

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

[tashapalmer]

Thank you. Fantastic video. I bought waterstones but haven't had the confidence to get them out and have a go. Now I do :)

[joanwoodson]

Fantastic--super clear. All the stuff I sort of knew, but didn't really. Thx much!!

[miketabar]

So you're saying "just the tip" is ok? Haha. I am currently struggling with keeping the honed edge square with the sides. I know its not that important but I am literally trying to keep it square for the technique itself. I can grind it in straight but by the time I'm done shes crooked.

[BiP]

"I use my angle grinder..."

Said every woodworking psychopath out there

[joelesko]

I absolutely love what you do bud!! I literally went from having no clue how to sharpen chisels and planer irons to basically using my planer iron as a mirror and shaving my face with my chissel. You literally make learning new skills effortless and super easy to understand and follow. Between binge watching tutorials from Matt Eslea and yourself, I really feel like in a few years time I will be close your level of expertise!! Sincerely from the bottom of my heart I really appreciate what you do pal!! Keep up the greatness!!

[philclennell]

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.

[nicksainsbury]

A 14 minute video claims you can do something in 90 seconds 🤔 you

[JohnB]

My old man, who was a boat builder said, "If you can shave your arm with the blade, it's sharp enough." Also, if there are no dings in it, stropping the blade often keeps it fresh.

[JustTony]

I bought a cheap horrible genetic branded no.4 a few years back when getting into working on the house and woodworking. Put me off hand planes. But then one day I came across a couple of old Stanley's now I've got a small collection. Sharpening then right was such a big part of the enjoyment of using them.

[standtall]

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

[carlomezzatesta]

Why do some people think it's clever to say it took 14 minutes when you say it can be don in 90 seconds. If you watch a porn vid it can be 90 minutes long, But when u have a go it's all over in 90 seconds😢

[supergimp]

"Just the tip..." There. Fixed it.

[johnfrench]

Some people have to climb a mountain & speak to a wise man to make sense of this world, I just need to watch tools being cared for and I find inner peace. Cheers from a shed in England. (Well I'm not a shed, that would be really weird, but you know)

[joshjosh]

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

[PeterHowell]

Thank you for this! Wife walked in during a close up and wanted to know why I'm getting sharpening advice from Patton Oswald.

[richardgoebel]

Something I did not see you do on the video but I figure you do it anyway. When you wipe off the blade between grits wipe off the roller, too. Just as you can transfer larger pieces of grit from the coarse stones to the finer stones via the blade you can transfer even more on the roller. Second point is locking your wrists. I lock them against my stomach and strop the blade while moving my entire body sideways. Of course the strop is oriented sideways, also.

[gav]

Not really exploring the potential of bevel ups. The whole point is, they are effectively "variable angle" planes and most useful when deployed on difficult woods at 60 degrees or higher.

[robohippy]

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.