View Poll Results: Do you use high angle frogs?

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Thread: Do you use high angle frogs?

  1. #1
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    Do you use high angle frogs?

    I don't have any high angle frogs for my planes. Just curious as to what others do.

    Thanks.

    PHM

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    No, but I do use high angle bevel up planes from Lee Valley.

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    Have a York Pitch by Dunlap. West germany Iron

    Comes in handy on curly Maple...

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    My luck with setting the chip breaker seems to be doing well.

    Of course very little difficult hard woods end up in my shop.

    jtk
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
    - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

  5. Other than a block plane ground high and a toothing plane set high, no.

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    Yes. All of my bench planes are 45* and above.

    Stewie;

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    I think back bevels are more versatile and make HAFs unnecessary.

    David

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    Anyone want to trade a 45 degree frog for a LN #3 for a 55 degree frog that I have?

    Regards from Perth

    Derek

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    I have an LN #4 with a high angle frog. For the past several years, I've gravitated to two smoothers: one being a Clifton #3 (standard frog) and the LN #4 with HAF. The LN has the chipbreaker set very close, with the lead edge polished to remove the sharp edge (nothing scientific used to measure-more just rubbing it standing up on a hard arkansas). Both planes have had the chipbreaker undersides prepared per an article I read from David (see Post #7 above), to make sure they seat correctly on the blade.

    With the wood I work (cherry, walnut, some white oak and similar species) my methods work very well.
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    I have one of my planes set up with a HAF. I only have one of any size plane except a duplicate LN 4-1/2 with the 55 degree frog. It is the one I refer to as the last resort. Sharp blade, HAF, tight mouth, close set cap iron, and light cut, ift hat won't work, scrapers and sandpaper are next. All the others are conventional frogs (mostly old Stanley's).
    Shawn

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    For final smoothing I switch between a LN #4 1/2 with a HAF and a LV bevel up smoother depending on the situation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Koepke View Post
    My luck with setting the chip breaker seems to be doing well.

    Of course very little difficult hard woods end up in my shop.

    jtk
    Pretty much the same here. No HAF in my shop.
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    "Do you use high angle frogs?

    Only uphill…..
    Maurice

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    I have the LN 4 1/2 with the regular and the 55 deg. frog. I find that for smoothing interlocked grain and other tear-out prone woods it really does make things easier. For some of the cherry I've been working with recently it was almost essential, though I'm sure a more seasoned craftsman than I could easily get by without one.
    David B. Morris

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    Depends on what you mean by use. ​I have an LN #4 with a 55° frog and a bevy of bevel up planes to get a high angle. I'm thinking about ordering a 45° frog from LN so I can get more use from the plane.

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