Thread: Veritas small scraper plane

Originally Posted by Mr Brush

.... Mind you, the thin/bendy blade is by far the more useful of the two.....

That's good to hear Mr. B. For a while after I got my LV scraper plane I considered getting the thick blade. I had the idea that being harder it might last longer between sharpenings. But I dithered for a long time, & in the meantime, my experience with reversing the blade in a HNT Gordon rebate plane to scrape up to shoulders showed how quickly a straight edge wears when used like that. Even the very tough HSS blade I used in a small home-made high-angle smoother dulls quickly when reversed, so I now wonder what advantage the thick LV blade may confer?

In any case, I ended up sticking with the thin blade because once I learnt to apply the right burnishing angle consistently, it became very easy to set up & gave very satisfactory results. In fact, the "soft" blade lasts amazingly well on even the toughest woods, and by adding a touch more bow as it loses bite, you can get a lot of scraping out of each prepared edge...

Cheers,