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Friends:

Have you heard that you're not supposed to cut rabbets with a rabbet plane? Me too, and it never made much sense to me. I dug into this topic and it turns out you CAN cut rabbets with a rabbet plane. It's not that hard, although I admit I'm still learning these new skills. I need to practice, but I wanted to bring you these excellent techniques right away.

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Happy Saturday!

--Rex

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Comments

Michael Anderson

Fantastic video. I have a couple of these, but didn't really get on with them. One of them has a square iron and was pleased to hear you recommend the skewed iron. It's not just me, then! I guess you need a left-handed and a right-handed one for different grain directions?

Brian Taylor

Are rabbet planes 'handed'? It seems to me that if you only have one, 50% of the time you'll be cutting against the grain direction.

Peter R Schuck

Nice video, helpful information. You can't get them for $10 here in Australia.

Richard C von Brecht

I love how those shavings spiral out the side. Is there a big difference in how you sharpen the iron?

John Griswold

Great video, once again I learned several things that will help me in the shop. I'm sure those techniques will make up for the missing fence for my Stanley 78;)

Chris St. Cyr

Great video again, and I found the end humorous. I joined Rex’s Patron channel for the free plans for the spoke shave. Then I watched more videos and downed even more plans for ‘free’. I figure I spend money on dumb things that often don’t bring me as much enjoyment, taxes and insurance come to mind! Thank Rex.

Don Heselton

Didn’t you show us how to make a rabbet plane?

Helge

Very good video! Very helpful. They are plentiful and cheap to get over here in Germany, too! Thanks, Rex! (ETA: Is there anything that I need to do different when cutting across the grain?)

Tom K

I picked up a Sargent 78 that was complete a couple of months back and had to get used to setting it up and all that. I kind of wish I'd gotten a skewed rabbet plane instead, but I might pick one up later for fun. But I'd never heard not to use a rabbet plane to cut rabbets. That's a new one on me.

Matt Evans-Koch

Excellent video on the using a rabbet plane, Rex. I agree with you about setting up a #78. It can be a bit frustration, especially when you don't get the fence screws tight. Thank you for today's video. Have a great weekend.

Don Heselton

“Rabbet plane from a chisel” was offered in the bundle, like spokeshave, router-plane, groove plane, low angle jack plane, no glue wall box. Thanks Rex. I made a router-plane and groove. I will be making a groove plane but smaller width. I want to make grooves for a box assembly.

Kenneth Carlile

This may seem obvious, but perhaps a note to beginners to back the iron out before planing the sole of the rabbet plane would be in order!

Dan Delie

I just bought a Stanley 289. The cats meow for rabbits 🐇 💜.

Pete seddon

Excellent video Rex, very comprehensive and enjoyable to watch. Looking forward to practicing with my $10 plane that looks just like yours; after I tune it up!

Rex Krueger

In the video, I said I love 78s, but that's not really true. I actually don't care for them for exactly those reasons. My wooden ECE is a better tool.

Rex Krueger

When cutting across the grain, break out at the ends is an issue. Knife your layout lines very deeply and consider leaving your stock a bit wide. Only trim it to final length after the rabbets are cut (when possible.) And, as always, practice on scrap!

Rex Krueger

I too love those spirals! The iron gets sharpened straight. No camber. Otherwise, it's easy.

Tom K

So far, so good. It doesn't like cross grain very much, but that's easy to get around. I still wish I'd gotten a skewed one, but I don't regret the purchase in the least.

Rex Krueger

I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe when we have Tool Trader up for Australia, we can import some cheaper American ones.

Rex Krueger

They're not handed, but cutting against the grain isn't a huge issue. The skewed iron really helps and a little tearout inside a rabbet will go unnoticed.

Marco P. Lascari

Great video Rex. Just moved to Northeast Ohio. What antique store did you get your rabbit plane from? May go there to pick one up.

Peter R Schuck

That would be good I'm sure for us Aussies just keep in mind the postage options. A lot of businesses use FedEx and DHL. An example I'm trying to order some more graving colettes from a company total $75US, DHL $59.75US makes it hard justifying that as we pay 40% more conversion and then 3.5% transaction fee on top of that. If we use PayPal they use their own conversion rate up to 4 or 6 cents lower than reality which nearly makes us pay 150% above the original UD$ amount. Was good when we were on parity with the US$ made prices and postage a lot fairer at the time. We pay for diesel, $3.57US per US gallon. Petrol about $4.50 a gallon US. Not sure how your prices are going. Some places charge $5.70US a US gallon. I don't know why it's so high. Back in the 90s, when a barrell of oild was $200 and our dollar was 50 cents US we were paying about $1.20 AUS a litre so $5.27 US gallon. Our dollar hovers around 62 cents and oil is down under $80US I think at present. Again not sure how it's going over your way but I know there's been a lot of grumbling too about fuel prices. We export our oil to Singapore then import fuel at their pricing. We used to produce our own, but we are down to one old refinery. The companies got their billions and never kept up maintenance of processing let it crumble. It sad to see so much manufacturing we had go off overseas. It's the same in the USA.

Dan Delie

Yep my stanley 78 I did not like. It was Subaru and that is being nice about it.

Matthew Grant

What an extraordinary coincidence - on Saturday I came across an identical rabbet plane at the bottom of a box of old tools - it had belonged to my wfe’s grandfather and I had never expected to use it. Not two hours later I was browsing your video’s Rex and this turned. Next weekend’s project - clean and sharpen the blade, light trim to the sole and a bit of tapping with the hammer and then some fun cutting rabbets (which I know from past experience is not quite as easy as you make it look Rex)…. I love these videos on using old tools Rex - please keep hem coming - I’d love to see a full explanation of the different ways to use a Stanley 50 combination plane (and the others) Still quite a few of those available at a decent price here in the UK.

Steve Hawker

Been a long time patron, first time poster. First, thank you so much for the inspiration for us part-time woodworkers. Second, your tips and tricks are fantastic. Saved me from many a mistake. I recently acquired a very old rabbet plane. Looks just like yours, except the iron has a very pronounced camber. The sole isn't exactly flat nor is it exactly curved. Worn down is how I might describe it. Question is, what's up with the camber? Is it a molding plane? I'm thinking of flattening the sole and replacing the iron - am I losing a specialist tool by doing so? Thanks again Rex!