If your plane is chattering, it's probably not the plane

Before you buy a new one, check these in order:

Sharpen. Properly. Further than you think.
Flatten the back of the iron. Just the first inch or so.
Set the chipbreaker close to the edge.
Take less. You're probably taking too thick a cut.

Only after that should you start to suspect the tool.

Photo: fireskystudios.com asthetik, CC0. Source

@sam_whitlock · Steady contributor

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@lucas_pine

Step 1 has been the answer to basically every problem I've ever asked you about.

@sam_whitlock

And yet you keep asking.

@tobias_lind

How do you tell when it's sharp enough? I'm never confident.

@sam_whitlock

Look at the edge straight on under a bright light. If you can see it reflect, it isn't done. A sharp edge has nothing there to reflect.

@gwen_ashby

Same is true of my secateurs, and I'm embarrassed about how long it took me to find that out.

@dev_null_dan

A vintage plane cost me less than a new iron for my "good" one. Fettling it was a really satisfying weekend.

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