Hey all,
I picked up a Stanley sweetheart low angle block plane and just tried sharpening the blade with my wet stones. I have run into a strange problem with the way the blade sharpened.
The iron is shiney almost all the way to the top of the bevel and nearly all the way across. Normally I don't care about how shiney it gets all the way to the top as long as the bottom of it (cutting surface) is shiney. The problem I am running into is that I cannot get it shiney all the way across. It seems to scuff up pretty easily all the way across on the 220 grit stone, but the instant I start going up to the 1000 grit and above, a tiny amount of the plane on each side does not really shine.
Any ideas as to why this is happening? I have not run into this with my other block plane. I also just finished up sharpening all of my chisels right before and did not run into this problem, even on my largest chisel.