Restoration of Antique Hand Plane - Complete with Japanning

Project Item Description

Vintage Hand Plane Restoration.

In todays video I have chosen a small Number 4 Vintage Hand Plane made by Hi-craft. The Hand Plane comprises of 5 Main pieces, The main part is the Cast Iron Body which has a flat bottom called the Sole, the Sole needs to be perfectly flat in order to work correctly. The second part is called the Frog, This has a couple of functions, one being to allow the Blade to be seated at the correct angle and it also encompasses two means of adjustment. The Blade or Iron sits on top of the Frog and accompanied by a second blade called a chip Breaker. These two irons are fixed to the body by a Lever cap and held in place by a single screw. The Lever Cam allows small adjustments to be made once everything is fitted together.


Restoration Process

This little Hand Plane is not in great shape as you can see from the video but I thought it needed a little TLC, It is covered by excessive amounts of Rust on all surfaces and required a couple of different ways to get it back to bare metal. I had decided that I would use Japanning on this Project as I wanted to make it as close to original as possible, I think you agree it turned out great. The handles where stripped and recoated in dark Walnut which compliments the brass screws and polished edges perfectly.
I cooked the Japanning for 1 hour at 100 degrees C then allowed to fully cool before repeating the process at 150 degrees and 200 degrees. If you require any more information on Japanning it can be found on Hand Tool Rescues Channel    / handtoolrescue  

If you have any questions regarding this project or maybe you could offer some advice which I can use on future work I would appreciate your feed Back.

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Regards Brian

Points covered in this Video

How to sharpen a Plane Iron
How to restore a Plane
How to repair a Hand Plane
Vintage Hand Plane Restoration
Best way of Removing Rust
New Japanning Recipe
How to Sharpen a Hand Plane
Restoration



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