Flat to “ - Stanley No.5 jackplane #tools #woodworking

I hand scraped my Stanley No.5 Jackplane to flat within about “ or 5 microns. Check out how I did it here - Old school woodworking meets old school metalworking... Here I take a £20 Stanley No.5 Jackplane that I bought at a car boot sale, and hand scrape it to be flat to within about 2 ten thousandths of an inch (“). Wood planes are cheap to buy second hand, so if you are a metalworker that wants a cheap source of cast iron to practice scraping on a wood plane is a cost effective way of practicing. What’s more at the end of it you will have a highly capable hand woodworking tool that you can use yourself or sell to a woodworker. In this video I am not advocating that you *need* to scrape a plane to less than “ of flatness, or that this is a better way of flattening a plane than the traditional method of lapping on a flat surface with abrasive paper. For me this is the perfect way to practice the art of han