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Thread: To camber or not to camber?
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11th October 2005, 05:07 AM #1
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To camber or not to camber?
Just curious, How many of you hone your bench plane irons with a cambered edge? What are the pros and cons?
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11th October 2005, 05:32 AM #2
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Hi Number Nine...
Pros are fewer or no plane tracks. Cons?
I do leave some straight for joinery and with the slightest of eased corners for final smoothing.
Some also find it easier to have a cambered iron for controlled edge prep prior to edge gluing.
Perhaps the one con I can think of would be the honing aspect. I have seen people put too much camber on a blade by accident and end up needing to regrind. But that's about it for a con.
Mike
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12th October 2005, 12:52 AM #3
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Is that a Steve Knight plane pictured in your avatar???
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12th October 2005, 06:48 PM #4
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Hi,
Yep, a Knight plane.
I've been selling off a few planes, but that one will need to be pried from my hands when I die...
And I see a rather nice infill as your avatar...
Mike
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