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giantcypress: giantcypress: “In Flanders Fields”, by John...
“In Flanders Fields”, by John McCrae, 1915. For Memorial Day.
Making this a tradition.
Ouch. That one hurt.
Ouch. That one hurt.
(From the June 2025 issue of Popular Woodworking. In all seriousness, this was a great article by Logan Wittmer on building a Craftsman desk.)
Hello Wilber, thank you for the great info, I have a question in regards to using a Japanese plane for shooting board, and with the way kanna bottom is made to shave wood, with 2 0r 3 points of contact on it , in your opinion, do you see the kanna...
Thanks for the kind words. I really appreciate it.
I use my Japanese planes for shooting all the time. Despite the 2- and 3-point contact design used for the sole of a Japanese plane, using them for shooting is perfectly fine. If you're on the desktop version of the blog, you can do a search for "shooting" to find all the posts I have on using a Japanese plane with a shooting board.
I've covered shooting the end grain and the long grain edges, and other details about using a shooting board.
You may think that the 2 or 3 point contact set up of the sole of a Japanese plane would cause problems with a shooting board, but in practice, it's not an issue. I've also used shooting boards with western planes. In both cases, the results depend more on technique than on the plane itself.