Chris Hudson42
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Hi Philip,

Yes - good M2 Stanley replacement irons

The 'down under' folks work much more often with tougher, reversing grain, silica-filled woods than we do here in North America. This has led to leading-edge developments in M2 HSS plane irons.

This started years back when Stanley had an iron-producing facility in Hobart TAZ where they made laminated M2 Stanley irons. Then Academy Saw works came out with M2 irons. Now, Helmut of WoodWork Forums is organizing a second run of M2 irons and custom chipbreakers at $45 AUD for the iron, and $15 AUD for the CB. See:
http://www.woodworkforums.com/f152/s...-order-104700/

Brent Beach has also tested some of these irons. See: http://www3.telus.net/BrentBeach/Sharpen/

(He has not reported yet on his tests of Helmut's first M2 irons, but supposedly will soon.)

While the Chinese Mujingfang irons are also HSS M2 - they are not available as retrofits for Stanley/Record planes

Regards,
Chris

HI Chris

You wrote:
"The Aussies and Kiwis probably know more than anyone else about plane irons and chipbreakers."

I'm a kiwi. What am I suppose to know about plane irons and chipbreakers. Is there some product that you can buy there that you can't in the US/Canada?

Thanks
Phillip