Flattening a work bench top

Flattening a workbench top using wooden hand planes. It starts with a Jointer Plane and finishes off with a Smoothing Plane. The surface is checked with a Straightedge during the process to quickly show the high or low spots which need to be eliminated to get the accurate flat surface you are after. Remember that everything you build on the bench relies on this flat surface as a reference.

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Howto & Style

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• HNT
• Gordon
• wooden
• planes

[localele1]

The planes are from HNT Gordon here in Australia. Different from Japanese planes with a 60 degree blade angle which is very good for our hardwoods.Blades are 6mm thick tool steel which takes and holds a lovely honed edge . Check them out at his website.

[OHmattTUBE]

Just what I needed. I will be making my carving bench top this week. Thanks for the video.

[synapse131]

Interesting how he ejects the shaving with each pass.  Fascinating technique with the Japanese hand plane.

[TubHmoobYaj034]

nice!!! and it's free too....cool thanks man.