Flattening Boards By Hand. Learn how to use traditional woodworking hand tools to dimension your lumber. Learn how to use traditional woodworking hand tools to dimension your lumber. The board to be flattened is placed on the box and made as level as possible using shims to fully support it.
Most of them have boards that end up too thin or with tapered sides.
Now let's take a look at two methods you can try to flatten your piece if you've already created a painting place a board over the newsprint paper that is larger than the paper. Using hand planes to flatten boards. A power hand planer will also do the job. They sort of immitate our hands when we draw a shape. Try to flatten the board with my #4 plane, end up chasing my tail and never getting it flat. Do you have to spend time flattening the workbench from time to time? Skew the plane so its heel rides on the jointed surface of the board. It's just like cutting a giant rabbet:
