#144. How many woodworking planes do you need.m4a

So when I started getting into woodworking, like really more towards the traditional side of woodworking, this little guy, this little number four, it's, it done everything.

I made it do everything.

I basically taught myself how to edge joint and everything with this.

So, It wasn't uncommon for me to be edge jointing a metre plus lengths of wood, you know, for things like coffee tables and even bigger tables and whatever else I may have joint wood together for.

I do believe one of the biggest things I've ever done was about, I want to say, 2.1 metres, maybe 2 metres, something like that.

And that was a TV unit, was like kind of a floating TV unit and was dovetailed at all four corners.

And this was actually just floating off the wall.

It was on a French cleat system, sat on the wall and it floated on the wall.

The TV sat on top of it and it had a couple of drawers on it.

And as I said, with that number four, I jointed all the glue lines with that.

So... what I actually did or do do sometimes not it's not too often or at least it's been a long time since I've jointed like a large you know like a large length so I just use a straight edge so obviously I get my I get my straight edge wherever it may be say for argument's sake let's just say it's a metre long and put it either side or basically in line with the piece and i'll just i'll just wiggle it backwards and forwards so you probably can't say this or you can't share it but i can i can feel it and i can hear it and i know at this end there's no contact i know there's contact around about here there's not a great deal of contact around here this contact definitely over at this side so that's to be expected this is like you know paint paint on it's epoxy resins being on it's dense in it so that's to be expected but the good thing about using a straight edge is that you can actually identify where the high spot the high spots are And if you want to, you could use a pencil and just mark them out.

And like I said, I got away with that for a very, very long time.

And occasionally, if I'm being really lazy, I'll just use the number four.

I've actually done it that many times.

I'm pretty quick at doing it that way because I had to teach myself at first.