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Thread: Veritas small scraper plane
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3rd November 2022, 08:24 AM #16
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,IW
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3rd November 2022, 09:21 AM #17
I'm the gullible fool who purchases all the options when I buy a tool......
The thin high carbon blade is easier to set up with a good burr, and you can refresh the burr several times without having to go back to sharpening the bevel itself and starting over. Bowing the thin blade allows much finer control as the burr wears, and of course the corners of the blade don't dig in and leave tracks.
Setting up the scraper with the hard A2 blade is much more difficult, it blunts REALLY fast...... and you can't bow it. Takes much longer to resharpen too.
I was re-watching the LV video by Vic Tesolin after seeing this thread pop up on the forum. In the intro he mentions the two types of blade available, then puts the thick blade aside and never mentions it again. The rest of the demo is using the thin blade. I think that says it all.
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