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Rough Planing the Mahogany Tabletop

By Gary Weeks
Posted Mar 27, 2011
Categories: Dining Tables

Jeff planing mahogany planks
Austin handplaning large mahogany table top
Gary Grinding Plane Blade

We used a square and a straightedge to find the high spots and leveled them by planing diagonally across the planks with the scrub plane.

Austin Weeks, master craftsman, using a wooden plane that once belonged to his great, great, great grandfather to surface a mahogany plank from a magnificent tree, probably a hundred years older than the plane.

Austin Planing Mahogany Planks