Vent: my plane kept digging in at the end of the stroke and the fix was a $2 candle

Anthony Fox · 2026-10-26T14:40:03.533314+00:00

I was tuning up a Stanley No. 4 for a kitchen cabinet job in Boise last month and the blade kept catching right at the end of every pass, no matter how I set the chip breaker. Rubbed a stub of paraffin wax on the sole and along the frog seams and it glided like a different tool, just like an old finisher at the lumber yard mentioned offhand one time. Am I crazy for thinking wax beats camellia oil for the money, or is there something better I should be rubbing on there?

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