Help with hand planes

[KyleD]

 Now I've just for to stop buying tools and buy some wood..

[adamcherubini]

[quote="Leandre" pid="8134435" dateline="1679520711"… every plane is a smoother, that make me chuckle. I think this will be a nice learning process. Now I've just for to stop buying tools and buy some wood..
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Good! There are a lot of opinions about first planes, including real puzzlers like low angle jack planes. The reality is, for most woodworkers, they aren’t planing to make their stock flat. It’s already pretty darned flat. So length and width of the plane really don’t matter. Ditto blade angles, shapes, mouth openings. It’s all matters of preference and opinions. Took me a long while to figure that out.

In my defense, woodworkers like the illusion (allusion?) of being hand tool users and aren’t always forth coming about what they are actually doing. “I am and hand tool user” or “I’d like to try hand tools” I now understand that to mean: “I’m going to machine absolutely everything, but I want to own a smoothing plane and I’d like to make test cuts with an expensive dovetail saw I’ll never learn to sharpen.”

[Admiral]

 I am trying to get myself into the habit of touching up a blade after use rather than letting it dull and require more time and effort to re- sharpen for use. Somewhere I read a woodworker say that this is called “sharpen more to sharpen less. “

This.  In use, edge tools benefit from a quick refresh, takes less than a minute or two and you're back to work ( takes a little longer when you have to remove a plane blade, but . . . . y'all get the point).