A scrub plane is designed to quickly remove large quantities of wood. Based on the Stanley 40 1/2, the open throat and curved blade allow you to take deep cuts with ease. Our Scrub Plane can quickly thickness rough sawn boards or cut stock to width before following with a Jack or Smoothing Plane.
It's a great tool for shaping irregular objects, backing out molding to fix irregular walls, or producing a scalloped surface that can be left as is for an interesting textured feature in your work.
Today’s woodworker will still find pleasure in using a Scrub Plane for that purpose, and will also find it practical for shaping irregular objects, for producing an interesting finished surface, and for trickier jobs like backing out a length of molding to fit an irregular wall.
After preparing the back of a new blade like any other plane blade, you are ready to tackle the bevel. One easy way is to hold the blade vertically in a vise and start with the coarsest stone necessary. Hold the stone flat against the bevel, and stroke the stone upward as you move it across the bevel. To hone with finer grits, you may find it easier to work at the bench. Register the bevel firmly on the stone, and roll the blade from one side to the other as you move down the length of the stone. Go all the way up through the grits as you would on any stone, and roll the blade from one side to the other as you move down the length of the stone. Go all the way up through the grits as you would on any plane blade: 220, 1000, 4000, and finally 8000. When the edge is sharp, stone the back of the blade to remove the wire edge. The finished edge should be consistently sharp from one side of the blade to the other.
