Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
I have an admitted weakness for collecting carpenter planes and pocketknives. A few years ago, I found a Stanley No. 8 in a Buffalo, Wyoming, antiques store. After paying what I rationalized was a pretty fair price for the relic, I brought it home, knocked off the first layer of gunk and put it on a shelf.For the past two weeks I've been puttering around in our garage workshop, building a wooden case out of salvaged redwood. Now my No. 8 has a proper home. If I could live two more lifetimes and train at the hand of a master woodworker, I might (underline that word) learn how to properly use this biggest of the Stanley planes that range in size from the tiny No. 1 through the 24-inch, 9 3/4 lb. No. 8.Along the way, I'm continuing to learn more about the challenges of working with salvage lumber. The redwood was saved from our former deck. Piece by piece, I'm working through the pile of mostly 2×6 boards, learning how to safely resaw, plane out the twists and edge the pieces so they can be reused for all manner of home workshop and craft projects. I've also made several Japanese-style boxes and still struggle with proper placement of the narrow pieces that become the lid closure and lock.This box was finished on the outside with paint I picked up at our local Habitat for Humanity store. The inside received a coat of BLO and then paste wax.