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In this video, teacher and furniture maker Mike Pekovich teaches the fundamentals of handplanes. He explains how to read the grain of wood, how to respond to what the grain is telling you, why blade angle matters, and how to avoid tearout. Mastering these basics of handplanes will allow you to fit joints, add decorative edges, remove machine marks, tackle gnarly grain, and produce glass-smooth surfaces.  See more on FineWoodworking.com: Build A Shooting Board that Handles Five Jobs - Simple, versatile design excels for trimming end, edge, and face grain Handwork: Three ways to cut a rabbet joint - The rabbet joint is a useful joint to know. Here, hand-tool expert Vic Tesolin shows three ways to cut one by hand—with a rabbet plane, with a shoulder plane, and with a chisel and router plane. 4 Chisel Tricks - From chamfering to shaping curved parts, a flat bench chisel is all you need   Watch Now

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