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Flattening the Sole of a Hand Plan
by James D. Thompson |
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Flattening the sole of a hand plane is a fairly easy task to accomplish. To
begin, you need a few things: A piece of plate glass or other really flat
surface, a scraper, a vixen file, a tube of Prussian Blue, and some sheets of
sandpaper.
In the picture below I have just put the sole of the plane onto the Prussian
Blue. Next I’ll scrape it.
Next comes the scraping, usually several times with bluing in between. The
scraper can be a file ground to a square end, or in my case an old chisel ground
and hardened.
Check with the bluing every time
you scrape.
As the blue covers more and
more surface you know you are making progress.
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