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Hi All

Ever since starting to use this plan stop it been a mystery why the stop could lift so high out of the bench. The guess was the intent was for very deep timber/jointing tall narrow timber....

Hmm - I've placed the smell of the old beech , it smells like an anaerobic digester - gee I really have hung around all the good places...

Cheers M

Hi David


The smell like dry rot, old atmosphere thats been trapped for long time- a bit like drilling a pearl and smelling a tiny bit of seawater that was trapped in there - not a great smell
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Well if your talking planing beech I need to hold on to my planes. Otherwise that will take off and fly across the room... I have plane beech a few time's levelling woodies and it it an effortless...

David,

The " nice lacey thin shavings" doesn't really register with me. I work the local woods generally. The brittle, hard, tearout out prone joy's that they are. Even common statements like...

Hi TJ

I wouldn't spin that fast, a tad more controlled.


A few shaving photos - sheoak and Blackwood, the finish - and the ugly sharpening of the blade
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Hi all

Hypothetical Bevel....

Avoiding the actual edge for a second - consider the bevel angle just behind the edge- say starts at 32 degrees then adjacent it is 25 degrees then rises back uo...

Hi All

Not convinced I know what I am doing either :)...

In terms of time I don't spend long on the MDF disk is powered on a drill. The grind is at 25 degrees, the polish is at a higher angle...

Hi John

I was missing a bit on why my edges need up slightly sharper. Had a failing antique expensive blade and ground down 15mm of steel looking to get past the area the blade was chipping. in...

Here is another description of the process- adding the use of bluing to help spot the high points... The Whitworth Three Plates Method — Eric Weinhoffer

One could scrape 3 planes at the same...

Hi Rob

Long precision surfaces are pretty costly.

You can make one. easily enough- this method can hit pretty high precision.
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Hi Rob

- yes .0015 is smallest for imperial - but I never use imperial- except when sort screw for old planes. 0.05 is typical for metric- but thinner is available.

First link changed somehow - so lets try here- Laminated plane irons - Stanley and Record

Hi Michael

.0015" is a horror? Thats 0.038mm or the thickness of 2 human hairs. Standard Metric feeler gauges don't go that thin, typically 0.05mm
I will need to up my standards

PS: the...

Hi All


For those who are interested - what history and Stanley brochure on the laminated blades.Stanley Laminated Blades – Swedish Iron – galootopia

Ian - glad you found the little search...

Hi All

Found another reason why my edges may be a tad finer. Wood by Wright was demonstrating a blade sharping guide, but one thing about this guide is it can run parallel with the edge. ...

Rob,

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PS, happy to be a tester of Rob's zero slop depth adjuster- but I am sure there're other volunteers on the forum:U.

Cheers

Hi WB

From what I can see the plane looks good. Skew blade and plenty blade left and the ends is sticking above the wedge. The wedging fence should be nice to use.

I cannot see the nicker,...

Hi David

It possible that it all related to chip extraction. If the gullets are not empty that will slow rate of sawing. iIn a near vertical sawing position it might be possible for one person....

Hi All

There's an extra From Roubo's "To makes as Perfectly as possible" on the Lost Arts site. Lost Art Press Pick up a few curious statements about the veneer sawing.
One was the saw had no...

Hi MA

Mostly selling working tools, all sharp, here's the start of a group photo, but since then I added some 51 spokeshave an 80 style scraper some woodies ( only special in that the are blades...

Hi All

Prepping some tools for a sell off and noticed something interesting - the Marple jointer is a tad longer than a normal 7. Had a moment when though maybe the Marples should be the keeper.....

Hi MA

With those Hairy Oak handles I do think that Sargents back to VBM standard (Very best Made!) :2tsup:.

Cheers M

Thanks Ian, will look at picking up a short steel cooks knife and sharpen around 15 degrees for LOML. She has long term arthitis, not that anyone can see and I don't think the stainless are great....

Hi Ian


Nope never put a razor blade under a microscope. Did look why the razor blades are cutting the test threads with lower force- they have for wood working world a very fine bevel 14 degrees...

Oh - should add the change in thinking is not exactly out of the blue- was travelling with friends over easter and one friend left his shaver behind- leading to vist to the supermarkets and the usual...

Hi Ian

Nothing wrong with all your comments , but as I am currently in "burr eccentric mode" if I see a burr "break" even a slither, I start considering if I could changed angle - ie slighter...

Hi All


Well I was over doing grinding, trying to salvage Norris plane blade that was chipping and some cog clicked over in may head and I stopped "sharpening"- or a least considering the...

- always remember "no japanning in the kitchen" , like really, never..

On the bright side my significant other burnt down the kitchen boiling out the tannin from a piece of wood - try explain...

Hi Rob

Also - was wondering how your plane project was going. Whichever choice you make for your plane blade I am sure it will be interesting.

Am rather partial to nibbed irons.

Regards

Hi All

Thanks for the advice. On the good news front after sacrificing a centimetre and half of blade I hit steel that doesn't shatter the moment the blade hits timber. Blade is keen and does a...

David,

Are there any further suggestions to improve this particular blade ,"*if* the blade has enlarged grain, then the chance that it will ever be stable is practically zero." does not at all...

David,

Photo of the larger chip.


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Cheers M

Hi David

The blades not laminated. No sign cracking like you show.

Put the crack under magnification. The broken part has faceted crystal appearance. There are flat faces that sparkle back at...

Thankful the offer David. Yes, likely tad far to send a plane blade, a mere 17,653 km's.
As for the Rockwell, the sampling location is likely random. The edge never rolled after re treating.....

Ian

Many things you inferred there are correct. Yes it 2 1/8 inch Norris bladed would be pain to replace. The blade was soft. The edges buckled when I tried to use it. Unusable. I assume the...

Thanks David,

Slow to grind.. No defects visible.

Temper for 1 or 2 Hours each run ?
Cool in oven ?

Cheers M

Hi All

Does anyone have any suggestions, regarding this Norris blade

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Noticed a small chip and ground that out, then on about the first pass a chunk similar to photos fell...

Hi All

Yup Cap irons are pretty fiddly. Have rebent a number as the shape they arrived in was nothing like what is present by Mr Bailey, But this ia whole another story

For a moment there I has...

Hi Ian

I have a cast Wentworth saw vise and too can struggle to grab the last bit of handle end of small saws.

Could you add a couple of flat steel bars or a small angle to your saw vise that...

Leverage, the adjustar will provide.
- Tend to set my plane's so the advance will move with single finger. The frogs are flattened and a tad of wax to keep things reasonable tight, but still able...

Hi Rob

I don't have an opinion one way or another about the Adjustar. Sometime, however, I do find the slop on old planes annoying,(and on some new planes). If annoyance gets my goat, I'll pull...

-duplicate..

Hi David

Not entirely convinced that two handed vertical sawing it makes difficult to maintain squareness, photo attached. The German style reverse cut is also easy to keep track. Not sure way,...

Hi David

Suggest trying the reverse cut with your Disston, which u you mavehave done Here's a thread, with some videos on reverse cutting Topic: Reverse overhand grip for ripping '-' Woodworking...

Hi Ian

Nice looking saw, the plus of tailoring a saw just for you -it can be perfect.

As for keeping the right saw isn't that the point. They are very easy to reach for and switch torso it...

Righto -

put a small flem on the Disston and ripped again. Measuring this time. More or less the same rate of penetration - around 9mm per stroke though 40mm thick timber. Might be a small nod to...

Hi Ian ,


Yes sharpening is key.

Suspecting sharpening is the main issue in this comparison. The teeth spacing is identical between the Disston and the I.Sorby and both were sharpened by...

Hi All

I haven't followed read though this thread much only the last though posts. As for coal fired power station well cannot say I involved much but design/ or more exactly redesigned some...

PS- as Paul suggests the Mr Punch trademark was present in 1856 and the handle style is so close to other 1850s handles, I amgoing to think of the saw as harking from that era. The medallion...