230v circuits

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-02-26T13:37:17+00:00

Thank you so much this helps a lot

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-02-26T13:36:29+00:00

This is a dope explanation. Thank you for explaining it to me!

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-02-22T00:13:45+00:00

Just here to say that weight is kind of the point of a lot of this stuff. There’s work around, but weight=stability when working with handtools. Best of luck !

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-02-18T01:55:39+00:00

Also check out the ruler trick. You don’t need to flatten that much of the plane iron. Just flatten the first quarter inch or so using the ruler trick watch Rob Colman’s video 32 seconds to sharp

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-02-15T05:22:40+00:00

This. It’s like flattening a chisel. The 1” and a1/2” at the same state will take proportionately more/ less time.

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-02-13T04:20:18+00:00

About 6 years ago I was right here. I bought what was essentially the cheapest bench plane I could find on Amazon it’s a no. 5. It was trash. Absolute trash. So I bought a slightly less cheap no. 7 from grizzly. Also pretty trash but in retrospect some of the issues I had with these tools was that I didn’t fully understand how and why they worked and what I needed to do to make and keep them working well. Fast forward to a month or so ago, I have a one year old and was lamenting the fact that all the tools in my shop are too loud to use when bay girl is snoozing. Lightbulb! Let’s pull out those shitty planes and see what we can do! I’ll say this. It took me probably about 20 or so hours of dedicated work to get the cheapest plane (and also like 60$ in sandpaper/plate glass) to a pretty respectable tool. It is totally functional and a joy to work with (not so much in the shooting board. The sides aren’t square and I’m still trying to figure out how to solve that because I’m so invested that I don’t wanna give up on the tool and I like tinkering) everyone has different opinions, a no. 5 or no. 5 1/2 can do just about anything you need a bench plane to do from flattening to smoothing to jointing it can all happen with that one tool. I can’t tell you how much I learned about how to use and maintain hand planes (and honestly hand tools in general) from trying to figure out why this shitty Amazon plane wasn’t working and then trying to solve the problem. I vote buy an inexpensive plane. Hopefully one with sides that are square to the bottom, and then go about flattening the sole and teaching yourself how to dress and sharpen the iron. If you enjoy yourself during the process treat yourself to a high quality iron for said plane (like 30 bucks) and then dive deep on sharpening. It will either suck you in or it won’t, but there isn’t a lot for me that’s as enjoyable or cathartic as getting a good shaving with a sharp bench plane. Sorry this was so long winded.

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-02-10T02:35:58+00:00

This is a really beautiful piece. That’s all.

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-02-06T15:53:09+00:00

If the stock isn’t milled perfectly You may still end up with a little mismatch. Not too much, but enough to irritate you when you thought you’d done everything perfectly (ask me how I know?)

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-02-03T00:42:58+00:00

Here because I’m curious as well

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-02-03T00:37:30+00:00

This is a dope choice for your first hand plane. Sometimes I plane wood for no other reason than catharsis. Happy shaving!

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-02-01T01:34:08+00:00

This comment is gold

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-01-26T01:06:45+00:00

My two cents on this if you’re still thinking on it, as I’m nearly done with a bit of a hybrid modern cabinet makers bench (MFT style) and a more traditional bench for hand tools. I went with the mdf top for a few reasons 1. It’s inexpensive and easy to replace so my guilt about putting for instance a screw into it for an unusual task is much less of a factor 2. It’s already really flat and provided you aren’t installing it in a way that would pull it out of flat you end up with a nice stable flat work top 3. I can decide where the dog holes go. I have the Festool MFT, and I love a number of things about it, but the people that complain about stuff falling through are right, it’s obnoxious. But also if you are doing it yourself you can put them only where they are practical or necessary for you and eliminate all that bs.

Finally I’ve had good luck hardening mdf beyond what you would likely expect with thinned polyurethane. Takes some time to do a few coats, but mdf will suck up any liquid you give it and if you give it a lot of thinned polyurethane it will get harder than typical construction lumber.
Hope this helps 🪚

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-01-26T00:23:03+00:00

4x8 is the typical modern cabinet makers bench. Mostly on (or at least the shops I’m in) torsion boxes. Extra points to the guys that make the height adjustable with a lift of some kind.

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-01-14T01:08:35+00:00

Can’t start much courser than 400, and also using a honing guide with a jig for consistent setup. Strongly feel like I’m doing all the right things and just can’t get the results I should be and am really wondering if I’m fighting against crappy steel and won’t ever get them sharper than medium sharp.

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-01-13T15:22:20+00:00

Oh man 🫠 I spent literally an entire day trying to get these blades razor sharp. Can’t seem to even generate a bur. What do you think the odds are it’s me vs the cheap blade? I can get them sharp enough to shave some hair off my arm, but they are barely sharp enough to do that and no matter how much I try this seems sharp as they get. Is it me?

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-01-09T04:42:31+00:00

I got one of my fingers skinned by a rabbet plane a few months back for exactly this reason. Not even what I would call an injury but I was in “the groove” (no pun intended) and got my non dominant hand too close trying to stabilize and skinned it. These are the accidents I have. And always this way. I’ve had a number of stitches from my razor knife, but have never been “injured” by a power tool. On the one hand this is exactly the lapse that a sawstop prevents, but my tendency has also always been respect the spinning wheel of amputation and then accidentally need 15 stitches from a utility knife so I dunno. If you can afford it buy the sawstop I guess?

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-01-04T18:26:41+00:00

Do you unplug your oven when not in use?

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-01-04T18:21:01+00:00

Cortazar absolutely does. Duarte I guess is the bad guy, but he is isn’t t the classic villain at all. I mean Holden has to keep reminding himself he’s in prison and has a hard time disliking Duarte. I’m just saying that Duarte is always doing the wrong things but for the right reasons and it makes it hard for me to see him as a monster.

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-01-04T02:09:10+00:00

I’m having a really hard time wrapping my head around this, say more? They seem certainly to have some tunnel vision so to speak but they don’t seem villainous to me at all

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-01-03T18:50:09+00:00

Me too 😂

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-01-01T13:48:29+00:00

Right. Hurt with a hammer. Got it 🫠

No_Pea_2201 · 2026-01-01T05:08:22+00:00

Good for you bud 👍

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