What can't a bevel up plane do as well?
I'm looking for a 4 1/2 smoother plane. When compared to say a bailey 4 1/2 or a bedrock 604 1/2, i understand that i BU plane with a high angle, say 50 deg. is good on difficult wood. Is the converse true? Could I use a BU plane as a regular smoother for non-difficult wood? This assumes i use the bevel angle as on the bailey but fitted to a BU plane. (not sure what the angle is off hand).
Anyhow, to get to the question... is there and advantage that the bailey or bedrock would have with it's standard angle over the BU plane for general smoothing in non-difficult wood?
Thanks.
Ken
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Orientation of the wear bevel, not its size
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Tim Put
Where is this documented? I would like to see the details the test (both the methods of testing and the exact method of sharpening applied).
Tim, I share your apparent skepticism here, but wonder if it's how he problem is expressed. It is obvious to me (which I will admit sometimes translates to "I have missed something") that the wood doesn't "care" whether the underside of the wedge of metal cutting it is the first few .001"s of a bevel or of a flat back. So I don't see how the wear bevel could be different. I think the difference is in removing the wear bevel. Here's my thousand words' worth. The irons are identical, both ground at 30 degrees and bedded to present a 45-degree angle to the wood. The wear bevel illustrated is parallel to the wood, and is identical in each case, although its orientation w.r.t. the iron's geometry is of course different. Note the amount of honing needed to get back to the original line in each case (the blue line).
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