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Thread: Bench plane camber choices vs. working practices

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    Those Bruce Lee videos are pretty amazing - especially the table tennis. We with our modern cult of the intellect (we like to theorise, but tend to be slow to practice/get the grunt work done) forget what the body is capable of - perhaps that was one message he was here to deliver. It's only now (for me anyway) that the magic is obvious, as a kid it was just movie special effects or something.

    It's the same for most activities involving mind/body co-ordination, it doesn't really start to happen until it's practiced enough to go subconscious.

    One of the risks of getting too intellectual is that the thinking (not unconscious) mind often gets in the way. It's a fine balance, and a lot to do with mind state and orientation. It's advisable to become aware of the correct 'form' for any action, but get overly intense/hung up on trying to consciously control it and it just doesn't work. Mix some lightly focused basic intention with enough practice and it tends to sort itself out.....
    Last edited by ian maybury; 08-31-2014 at 7:45 AM.

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    Another PS - this time to the setting up of the mostly Veritas/Lee Valley bevel up planes the cambered blades belong to. Credit needs giving where credit is due. Most are just coming into use.

    Been stripping each down, checking the sole (marked up around the mouth and at the ends with a felt pen) with a quick run on fine silicon carbide paper on a lab standard granite surface plate, waxing them up and then fitting the freshly sharpened and cambered blades.

    All four bevel up bench planes plus both (different model) blocks and a scraping plane have proved to have dead flat soles (polishing up all over within a few strokes), the mostly A2 but one O1 blade backs have all been so flat that they clean all over in a few minutes on a 1000 grit waterstone, and the jointer, smoother and blocks (with fine/no cambers as applicable) have had no difficulty dialling straight in to take shavings of just under one thou. (didn't try to go finer)

    Impressive stuff - a well regarded (but not US made) modern bevel down jack plane by another maker in comparison needed several hours of sole flattening - and one of the sides is about 0.5mm out of vertical.
    Last edited by ian maybury; 09-10-2014 at 3:41 PM.

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