Very helpful video Eoin! I’ve inherited some of my grandads old planes a while back and I’ve been meaning to bring them back up to shape. It’s really refreshing to see someone who has a true love for the tools they restore

These videos have the same calming/soothing effect as Bob Ross's Joy of Painting. "WD-40" = "Beat the Devil out of (the brush)" I can't believe this dudes only been doing this for a couple years. He Sounds like he's been restoring hand planes since he was old enough to hold one. Incredible.

I just finished restoring my first plane. It wasn't a Stanley it was a craftsman. I got it for free from an old neighbor of mine who passed away less than a year later with a battle with cancer. I thought it was a good idea to restore his plane and to learn to use it to keep his memory alive for a while. Him and his wife were extremely polite to my family when we moved here from across the country. We have a lot of the same views, and the two of them are just incredibly nice and decent human beings. Thank you for your content. I enjoy learning from your videos and I just really enjoy watching how much you care for your tools and your craft.

I don't even do woodwork and I learn through these videos. I have been using wd40 and sandpaper/scourering pads to remove rust from old bicycle parts, you can make a lot of chromed parts look pretty good.

Just wanted to mention since this is an old plane and it's been painted, be careful that it isn't lead based paint. I know it was popular in the past in the US and frankly I'm not educated enough to know if it was just as common where you are from. There are lead testing kits you can get though, looks like a small stick, tip turns red if lead is present. Just wanted to mention because I just found your channel and have been enjoying them a lot lately, a good change from the usual wood workers I've been watching. Be safe and keep up the good work! Also! Hand tool rescue has some japanning videos (the black paint under the blue) only if you were wanting to restore it and have it looking as original as possible. Regardless it's gonna be a nice plane.

Stoked to finally see a card scraper on this channel! The most underrated woodworking too out there. Eoin, let's see some more scraping and less sanding, please!

Quick and fresh video on how to bring a neglected plane back to life. One suggesting regarding issues with ugly hobby paint applied to these old ones. Try using a bit of acetone on a cotton cloth. No need to soak it, just let it stay wet for a minute or two. You'll see lacquer spray and just about everything except epoxy bubble up and be able to brush off. The underlying black Jappaning paint is baked on so it wont be damaged at all.

Well what a coincidence, I discovered your channel only a few weeks ago, by chance. And now I notice that I just ordered the exact same jumper you're wearing in this video. Anyway, I have a really good time watching your videos, gives me motivation to build something myself with my late grandfather's tools. Right now I'm working on a wooden comb. Greetings from Germany :)

You brilliant Irish lad have inspired me the Welsh lad. I bought a no 4 Stanley plane and guide for the correct angle of sharpening etc and a 400/1000 grit diamond stone. You sir are a legend ✊

GTlad KZfaq suggested your channel - videos always a pleasure to watch. Happy 2023!

Very good job. Done this a few times myself. It is very satisfying once the plane does the first shavings after the restauration. Cheers from Germany.

Another great video. Actually learned quite a lot from this one. Better equipped to fix a rusty old plane I was given years ago. Thanks mate 👍

What's up Eoin. I found your channel two weeks ago. You remind me of my first friend in high school, Sean, who is very Irish and loves everything that has to do with the motherland. However he has no accent whatsoever, since we were both raised here in the USA. More to your interest, I LOVE your "gusto," your energy, and joy for the craft. I also very much enjoy your informative documentaries, specifically the steam engine and the masonry. Hand tools are so conducive for those who are imaginative and spontaneous, whereas the table saw introduces unnecessary danger, especially for late-comers. I am transitioning out of cooking, becoming an electrician, and setting up a hobby wood shop. I absolutely love hand tools and am on the hunt for my first vintage tenon saw. Peace and keep those hands safely working!!!

As always you are charming and relaxing to watch. Thank you for another video to watch before bed to help forget about the day.

Thanks for all your videos! Very educational and fun!

I love this channel!!! I'll watch a video, then I'm like... Wait I already know how to do this...... Hmmm.. oh well let's watch again!!!

This #4 is an absolute beast and my favorite of the litter i have.

This is excellent. Got me hooked on plane restoration.

Master Eion. Love your vids. U’ve relit my old spark. Keep on teaching brother. Watching your videos reminds me of younger days.. Try a 12 hr vinegar bath next time. Save your WDforty.. ;)

Eoin, I realize this is for the camera, but one should wait for some time after spraying WD40. Also, WD40 isn't great for really bad rust, it might never penetrate even after sitting for days. There's an old trick: transmission fluid + acetone (just be very, very careful, it's extremely flammable), this will penetrate even the worst rusted nuts and bolts in minutes. Hope this helps

I’ve restored many Stanley’s, Records & other timber planes. I find it very enjoyable. I got tetanus at one stage, made me a bit sick. The plane I was working on looked like it had been at the bottom of the ocean for 50 years.

I have my dad's Stanley , same model. He built two homes and tonnes of furniture with it. I think I'll give it a clean up. Thanks

Well, I'm not a lad but I do like your videos and I might even try to restore my Dad's hand plane myself. What a smart idea to wrap a length of sandpaper on the long stone slab. Well done. Greetings from Australia.

My dad used to shave my arm hair like that when I was a kid. Thanks for the memory

Love your work, Bruv. Phenomenal

Great vid as always keep up the solid work👌🏼

Can't wait to see you put it to use! Looks great :)

Videos like this one make me wish that you did ASMR videos of just the entire sole of the plane being flattened, the irons being sharpened, and so on. It's hypnotizing for some reason.

Also there is something called the ruler sharpening by David Charlesworth. Its a method where you dont have to lap the entire back of the plane blade rather you set the 0.5mm ruler on the sharpening stone then set the back end of the blade onto it and sharpen the very tip of the plane blade because that is the only part of the blade that touches the work. Its pretty useful when theres heavy pitting on the blade.

Remember seeing one of these things on my grandfather's farm . My daughter likes to collect old tools .. Yes I said daughter.

I really really enjoy your videos🫡

Always a good time when you upload a new video

I got myself a stanley no 4. Its not in too bad shape, but I'm gonna try and restore it. Love your videos

Very useful And it's always more engaging when it's someone hot that's teaching you. Also gorgeous eyes.

Awesome video bro keep the content coming

By the strangest coincidence, I have exactly the same plane sitting on my desk. I have had it fir years but could never get it working. It's in great shape, but the adjustment knob at the bottom rear tends to come loose and fall off. The weird part is that your video popped up right after I finished another KZfaq video about sharpening a planer. I caught a glimpse of the opening and realized that your blue planer was exactly like mine... except for the blue paint. Now I just have to sharpen the blades and hope that I have fixed it.

Just bought a #4 plane off eBay for £18. Looks in good shape as well. Shouldn’t take much work to get in shape.

I've received a Dunlap that's the same design as this one. Can't wait to restore it put it back to work

Another great vid. I don’t own a plane at all so the draw horse I made today is as rough as guts but now if I find a Stanley plane …. Haha. I’ll ask someone who knows what they’re doing 😅

Been watching you on tick tock for a while now and enjoy your videos and have just found you on youtube, so have subscribed. I have a hand axe with a truly awful handle and an old plane i dont fully understand so will give them both a look now ive watched some of your videos. many thanks for the help 👍

Sandblasting is always helpful

im here for the moistened shaft and knob

Paint the inside black! Much easier that trying to remove paint around the lettering and other raised bits. Still - well done! Also, the lever cap is a perfect tool for removing the blade from the chip breaker (you know how the screw from most old planes is all buggered up).

Hi Eoin I love your videos. They're very enjoyable to watch. Where do you sell your tools and projects when you're ready to part with them?

Thank you for your time . Do you have any videos on your workbench ?

It's actually not true that the planes sole has to be perfectly flat. I am of the school that having a bit of hollow grind in the back can really help the plane work easier as long as the two edges are flat. As long as the edges of the sole is flat, you would use it as a smoothing place perfectly fine. It's also of my own two cents that if you had a slight hollow grind right in front of the throat, you would get a much nicer shaving on thinner work pieces as you are allowing just that hint of space for the blade to work into. I've never found a tight throat very necessary as long as it's not too wide. You are much better off with a sharp blade rather than an ultra tight throat.

I am very jealous that you live in place where cast body planes were used and are cheaply avaiable second hand. I live in czech republic. Any old plane is a wooden plane and even they are impossible to find. So everything i get I have to get new

Nice

I would bet a good amount of money that the Irish are the best woodworkers in the history of humanity.

I'm working on fixing a no.4 today. It's a brand I've never heard of and it is missing it's knife and chip breaker, but I will probably be able to pick those up somewhere. It took me a year and a half to start in restoring it, so not going to stop now or it will never get done.

Good day, I was wondering if you would be able to make a video on making a wardrobe. I am currently getting to woodworking with hand tools and I’d love to see how’d you do it

Paul sellers suggests lapping the sole with the frog, chip breaker and iron installed. The tension from the spring that hold the plane iron on the frog warps the sole.

Another really good video bud! I'd suggest a tidy microphone to go with the shiny new camera though. Sound is a bit iffy sometimes

Ref.: Inside paint and taking it off... I've recently started restauring planes as well, However, The ones I received/bought/found came with quite a bit of rust, Trick, -electrolysis-, this not only removes most of the rusk, but also the paint, then it just a case of wire brushing the whole thing and voila! (and I mean, easily, no elbow greese) Just thought I'd mention it.

My dad just bought a Stanley No 7 "brand new" in a hardware store in my hometown in Mexico, paint and wood are scratched for being at the store for decades, solid mexican manufacturing and English blade, for around $20 USD 😂, imma get it on working condition

👏👏👏

ide buy it

I think your seller was having a laugh, with his only used once.Used car sales man😂

love the vids whats your favourate hand plane you own

In my experience the japanning on these planes is pretty resistant to paint stripper so you can often put some stripper on overpaint and splatter, let it sit for just a minute or two and then rub the paint off leaving the japanning underneath intact.

Where is your store online?

Very nice video! I am looking to restore two stanley planes myself. I was wondering what would be an alternative to the granite slab? Will any flat surface do?

Love your videos, I have a question. How come you make a KZfaq style video on something you already made a Tik Tok on instead of just posting the TikTok like u usually do. Also how do you go about recording both videos. Do you do them at the same time by setting up ur dslr to record the yt part and then set up to phone to do the Tik Tok part?

I feel like I am listening to an episode of Father Ted, if Dougal had been useful

Flatten the sole with the plane assembled and under tension.

Hi eoin I'm from mallow do you fix old hand tools for people.

Do you have a link for the Diamond Stone fella? I've been looking at a few but most of the ones I've seen are much smaller than the one you're using. Looks pretty good and i remember you saying it was cheap in another video recently. Keep up the good work mate. Nice one!

I inherited this from my grandad

Hey brother, i have a question. Ive restored my own stanley no 3 and 4 and lapped them using a slat marble saddle. I have a problem when i start using it, it skips the very beginning of the wood then starts cutting. Ive resharpened and i know the blade is sharp the sole is flat but it still skitters at the beginning. Thanks man i appreciate the vid and help!

Does it matter or do you only get Stanley planers I am fascinated by them I just really don't know how to get them up to par

I've been restoring planes lately found a couple at a local antique store 2 stanley no 5 1/2 and a stanley no 10

Regarding scraping the paint off of the side of the object by pushing a thin, flat wedge on a handle over top of it: In places that have real winter, we have to scrape frost, snow, and ice off of our car windows in the morning before leaving for work. Sometimes the ice can be from freezing rain, and the ice can be caked perfectly around the car's exposed surface over half an inch thick in some extreme cases. This takes a lot of scraping, heat from the other side of the window, and work to get rid of it. There's still some satisfaction here, but once I'm a few minutes into shivering because the cold wind cuts me to my bone despite all my layers and the air is cold enough to feel like it's constantly stabbing any bit of exposed skin, the satisfaction part mostly fades away. Does anyone know how deep into the Winter season it gets where Eoin lives?

Get some laquer paint thinner. I think a solid metal color would be better than the blue or black.

what can you get fore thees planes nr 4?

Have you been watching Paul Sellers too

Have you thought about working with a blacksmith to make bespoke versions of these?

Hello friend👋🏾 I know I love a bloody restoration video from Eoin! By the way, how do you pronounce your name?😁

Man I hated that card scraper segment but otherwise good video! That scraper sounded like nails on chalkboard

Is there a way to identify if a Stanley plane is genuine vintage?

Put the plane in a sonic cleaner with some simple green to remove paint.

You have a band saw

Double you dee faurghty

You mentioned you have a DSLR now (or some type of other camera). You need to look into getting a shot gun mic for it because the audio is pretty bad. They will set you back about $100 but worth it with your audience size.

Someone get the man some blue dykem for Christmas so he can show us the lapping process progress.

I've got a blue one exactly like that (without the crap primer overspray). I thought the blue was original?

How many planes do u have?

Don't you need to have the frog and iron in place when lapping? That way, any tension or bending of the body is taken into account.

You lapped the sides, is that for aesthetics or is there a functional reason to do it?.

I thought you found your linseed oil! You used it in your making a mallet video

Buy the plains that you need for your work

You need to improve on the sound, but othervise good video

My neighbor found an old Stanley #8 in his father in laws garage. Needs some serious help. Can I send you pictures and ask for you advice on where to start? Date on the bottom is Aug 1885

8:22 is that a tattoo on your hand eoin?

What are the odds the paint was lead based...just a thought

5:58 Did you name him Moby Dick?

Stanley number four I ever got and it’s the only Stanley/plane I got And the blade is a little bit messed up. There is a dead spot and I’ve been trying to sharpen it. This is the first Stanley that I’ve ever gotten. I got it for five bucks, a steal!!, I would really like some help restoring it, but I know you live really far away, but it would be cool to meet up with you. I don’t think it’s gonna happen but yeah, I really like my Stanley but I don’t really know how to use it except that you kinda run it against the piece of wood but you are a very good help on helping me get my plane fixed up and working

Man, I know we have our fair share of sports obsessions here in the USA, but I can't imagine stores across the country closing for 'em. Not even the Super Bowl. That's got to be annoying.

You said it wasnt an atractive tool. Youre much mistaken. A tool with the patina of manufacture in the days of old are beautiful. They shame newer tools built with modern corporate cost cutting in mind.

just use paint stripper

Is there a reason you aren’t using aircraft paint stripper? It’s absolutely essential and removes paint in minutes. Also, it’s really satisfying to watch. It bubbles up in seconds and then it just falls off with a stiff paintbrush.