How To Sharpen A Chisel Timber Frame Off-grid Homestead Project

The fact that your tools are new means they're nowhere near ready for use. This may not match your expectations, but it's true of nearly every hand tool (and most power tools) that you might ever acquire. It's not that the tools weren't made well; they almost certainly were. But the job of the person in the foundry where your planes were made, for instance, is to make tools that look just like planes, and to be sure there are not fatal flaws that would keep them from working. That foundry worker doesn't use the planes (he'd surely get in trouble if his supervisor caught him making shavings on the job!), and he probably isn't a woodworker anyway. So he has no business trying to make planes perfectly ready to use. It's not the retailer's job to make tools perfect; their job is to choose good tools, inform you responsibly, offer competitive prices and good customer service, and so on. In the life history of your planes, you are the first person they've ever met who actually needs them to work properly—so you're the right person to put them into shape for doing so. The work to be done is both simple and brief, and it will begin building a connection between you and your tools even before you put them to work. Blades must be sharpened; corrosion-preventive coatings must be removed. Handles can be shaped, refinished or replaced. Castings may be polished and waxed, rough edges smoothed, sharp corners eased. Only the first two chores, sharpening and cleaning, must be done, while ...



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