{"id":7,"date":"2013-07-17T20:18:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galootopia.com\/old_tools\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2013-08-04T07:10:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T07:10:08","slug":"planes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rarebit.com\/old_tools\/planes\/","title":{"rendered":"Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first favorite hand tool is the hand plane. Although planes are simply a device for holding one or more chisels, they amaze me in both their evolution and their variety.\u00a0 Many are works of art and I confess to owning more than I can possible use in my woodworking and carpentry projects.<\/p>\n<p>My first fascination with hand planes was simply trying to get them to do the job they were intended to perform. When I was a young, my Dad had a #5 Stanley Bailey in his tool kit. I was constantly trying to get it to do a decent job of planing, but always failed. Finally, I got frustrated and quit. I took up the task once again when I was a young adult and learned how to tune and use a plane from a local pro. What a difference! It amazed me once I was able to produce those fine curly shavings and get that beautiful finish a plane produces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rarebit.com\/old_tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/planes1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-438\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"https:\/\/rarebit.com\/old_tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/planes1.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rarebit.com\/old_tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/planes1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/rarebit.com\/old_tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/planes1-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever lose my fascination with hand planes &#8212; both as a collector and a user. Plus, trying to sharpen them and get the best edge possible can be downright addictive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first favorite hand tool is the hand plane. Although planes are simply a device for holding one or more chisels, they amaze me in both their evolution and their variety.\u00a0 Many are works of art and I confess to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/rarebit.com\/old_tools\/planes\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planes<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.com\/old_tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.com\/old_tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.com\/old_tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.com\/old_tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.com\/old_tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.com\/old_tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.com\/old_tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}