In today's One Day Repair of an old wood hand plane, I injure myself in a way that leads me to do some extensive self-reflection (and I appreciate the supportive comments so far). Watch: youtu.be/bzJE9Rlb_3s
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Once the iron has 3/4" left, it is no longer viable, it is soft steel. I then turn them into card scrapers. You can try putting a Veritas PMV-11 blade on instead.
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Adam I just wanted to thank you & let you know that you looking at your hands & realizing (out loud) "My shop practice is off" resonated very strongly with me in my work as a psychotherapist. My tools are different, the evidence of injury is different but the cause? So similar.
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Watching this in a bit, but sorry you ended up injuring yourself. You’ve earned (yet again) the injury patch
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A lovely working restoration.
Great safety talk at the end too, we tend to forget the everyday tools are more likely to injure due to over-familiarity and complacency.
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Ah, you did the classic "apply perpendicular force to something you're holding with a screwdriver"
I wish I could say I have not made this mistake repeatedly myself :'(
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I've watched the first ten minutes so far; I'm guessing (speaking as a woodworking handtool nerd) that this is your first plane restoration.
It's a whole specialisation in itself, out in tool-land!
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