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275575 Richard Wilson <yorkshireman@y...> 2022‑05‑16 Re: Blisters.... Woodies... How to hold a plane?
Frank needs answers...

> On 16 May 2022, at 04:29, Frank Filippone  wrote:
> 
> I really do appreciate all the suggestions to date, especially Scott's
comments about building up the skin/muscles before doing a complete job.....
> 
> but I am not so sure I have an answer yet.... how SHOULD I hold the plane?  is
the plane gripped with the fingers of the right hand?  Or is it shoved into the
palm?
> 
> And maybe the answer is to use a padded palm glove.... ?
> 
> Frank Filippone

(snipped) 

I’d have thought the answer is obvious Frank - you need a hand transplant.  

But seriously, who’s the master in this - the plane or you?  I’ve had some
uncomfortable planes, just not right for my hand.  Some subtle fettling helps -
assuming it’s not a $10,000 dollar museum piece, then round over the edges, find
where it’s rubbing, and re-shape it, make it comfortable (and re-colour and re-
finish the alteration to blend it in, if that’s your taste.  The plane becomes
more useful, and it becomes a part of ‘you’

I was recently fineagled into buying a jewellers hammer with an unusual to me
pistol grip handle, mainly so I could try the handle shape.  It was frightfully
new.  I mean frightfully - bright chrome head, and mirror like thick gloop on
the handle.  Scrape off the gloop to reveal some dreadful coloured wood, and
then some subtle, or not so subtle recolouring next time I had some stain out,
and finally it will get oil or wax.  The head still needs a wire wheel, or
hitting with some 120 grit to knock off the shine - then it will be ‘mine’

When these things were new, and you made your living from them, you wouldn’t
hesitate to adjust it so you could use it all day.  I get grumpier and more
impatient as I grow older, and don’t have time for things that don’t work the
way I want.


But your answer may be different 

Richard Wilson
Yorkshireman Galoot
in Northumbria.  North of the Prince Bishops country 





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