This Hand Plane Couldn't Take a Single Shaving

Whether a troll or beginner Rex handled it like a pro and made another great educational plane video 👍👍👍

Judging by the knob, That plane was originally restored by Fred Flintstone. lol

Will’s real hobby isn’t woodworking. It’s trolling.

We have a saying here in Croatia. When someone sees your 'fly malfunction' they say: your store is open. And then you reply: no matter, as long as the boss is inside.
Great restoration as always Rex! 😉♥️

Good job keeping a straight face

Love the idea of that not for profit. I went on a 6 month stress leave after suffering through 4 years of depression. I spent the vast majority of my time off in my garage mucking about with wood. I even started restoring a piece of junk hand plane, I think. I came to channels like this for community and inspiration. I found a lot of healing in making things, experimenting, gaining new skills, and just having something to putter away at (never underestimate the power of puttering). Thanks Rex for supporting a cause like this, and for providing great content to help people through tough times.

Great demonstration! The two facts that I got from the video are:
1. Success is attainable
2. It's probably going to be more work than you think.
These apply to almost everything in life.

Rex...youve been had, buddy. Time to put the hand plane down. You do not want to open the flood gates on randos sending you scrap being like "I tried really hard, can you turn this into a hand plane for me??"

I giggled at that knob and that tote

@15:20 Are we approaching the plane of Theseus at this point? lol

It's easy for people to say that Will is a 'Troll' but maybe he's a beginner, whose skill fell short of the task. We all started somewhere and Rex's kindness, knowledge and skill demonstrates that constructive criticism is better then abuse. Erring on the side of belief in people (whilst not being naïve) has helped me enormously during my life - and proven that there's far more Good in the World then Bad.

TROLL ALERT!! I've seen people who don't pay attention to details before but this one takes the cake.

I feel like you got trolled Rex.
He's saying he did everything that the videos recommend and yet everything that could possibly be wrong with that is wrong with it.

“ The front knob…I’m gonna say user made” I laughed way too hard at that. 😂

If there was an award for most credulous restoration personnel, you would win. Hands down.

I love that you saw what seems to my cynical self as a level 4 troll extravaganza - and just went head down, full steam ahead on the diligence.

Nicely done.

Cheers!

My first attempt at restoration was an off brand. Did everything in your videos and the Paul Sellers videos. Then noticed the line, "sometimes it's just a bad plane." Tried another plane and it came out beautifully. I love your videos, thanks for all the help.

Rex…Hats off to you for 30 minutes continuous flattening! I m restoring a really nice British plane at the moment. A Record #4 1/2 Doing the flattening in bursts of 100 strokes up and down the paper. Longest continuous I’ve got up go is 300 a few times and I found that really tiring at my age (67). I’m at a total now of 10,200 strokes and I still haven’t quite got rid of a tiny dip centred on the middle of the mouth. Slowly slowly improving. Keep on thinking enough is enough but can’t quite let myself try it out on wood again when there’s still the possibility that I can get it perfect. I must get round to remembering that perfection is the arch enemy of the good!

Trolling or no trolling. I surely enjoyed this video.

Educational, laughed a bit and - a lot at some of the comments.
But most of all, I gained Extra Appreciation for Rex.
Like some comments read, "Rex is a good man..."

Thank You very much Rex.
👍🏻👋🏻

You’re a good man, Rex. If nothing else this is a most excellent demo. One does not want to disparage, Will, but either he is a troll as has been suggested elsewhere, or he doesn’t have a clue about tools - not even a scintilla of a hint of the most infinitesimally small thought of a clue. It’s not a sin to be clueless about tools; many people aren’t. So, you are very charitable and I commend you for that!

There is no way the guy who sent this is for real. He's testing you!!