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advancing hand plane blade to keep shaving wood
Need some real world advise on an issue:
No 4 Stanley Handyman smoother, stock blade. Very small mouth opening, around .005 pasing shavings around .002. The sole is flat to under a .001 according to my starrett straight edge and a source of light. Very hard wood, purpleheart in my case, 3" x 12" How many minutes of smoothing are you getting from stock stanley blades before you are rehonning the edge? Is this a 5 times and hour event, or 10 times an hour? Or once every 3 minutes. I find I get 3-4 good minutes of shavings at a stroke every 5-8 seconds, and then I need to advance the blade just a fraction to keep shaving. Thoughts a The blade is advancing back into the plane because the lever cab is not terribly tight. The blade is dull already. I'm off to pick up a flat tip for a dial indicator today, and will pull a blade next time I have to advance it and see if it still shaves arm hairs or if the edge has dulled. What's the wreck's consensus? |
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