THE SHARPEST TOOLS IN THE SHED
SHARPENING hand-plane blades is essentially the same process as sharpening chisels and other edge tools. Your aim is to create the finest arris you can, at the highest abrasive grit possible.
They might look similar but, no, hand planes aren’t all the same – the different types perform a wide variety of functions. A smoothing plane, for example, will have an entirely different blade-edge shape to a scrub plane. When compared to a router plane, a shoulder plane has a completely different angle of attack (called the pitch), and the pitch geometries of standard-angle hand planes differ substantially to those of low-angle hand planes.
The table below shows a list of the most commonly used hand planes. Whether the plane is a smoother, jointer, tryin-gor apron plane, it’s important
