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  1. 5th August 2012, 08:57 PM #1
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    Default Cambering on Mk II

    After doing some research I have edited my question.

    I'd like to know what technique people use to camber their smoothing and jointer plane irons with the camber roller. For example do you apply 5 strokes to each corner and 3 strokes between the middle and end etc?
    And what do you do differently to your jointer irons compared to your smoothers?

    I should also mention that I'm referring to bevel down planes.

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    Hi Andy,
    The smoothers I have get a slight camber by pressing harder on one side then the other as I sharpen on the oil stone. I find this works both freehand and with guide. The camber is so slight that you need to hold it up to a strait edge to see it. There is a lazy method that is just rubbing off the corners of a strait edge and that is what my dad did as a carpenter. The idea being not to leave tracks by the corner of the blade. I guess time was money to him. I used this method also for many years before I joined this forum and became enlightened. I have a strait edge on the jointer (No7) but some use a very slight camber on that too.
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