Originally Posted by
Noah Wagener
I'll take yous guyses words about not paring the abutments though i do not understand why. I think the chipbreaker is going to be loose when i ever get to this and i would think that paring the bed would exacerbate this and paring the contact portion of the abutments would help.I guess you just bend those dogears on the breaker to remedy this? Plus the abutments are only contacting the blade near the top. To fix this via paring the bed i'd have to lower the bed angle and it is already at 36 degrees.
The bed angle will change, but the effective cutting angle won’t. The effective cutting angle is determined by the top edge of the grooves in the side of the throat that the blade fits into. That’s why you never want to touch that part of the plane when fitting a blade. You’re lowering the bed angle for the purpose of getting the blade to fit closer to the mouth, which is a good thing.
Originally Posted by
Noah Wagener
David, i saw your thread on tapping irons. Can chisels be tapped as well? Small chisels. I was thinking of skewing an old chisel for tenon shoulders but i would be in the hollow then and i am not equipped to lap that out. What is the Japanese method for tenon shoulders?I never see skewed chisels. Maybe those saws cut so smoothly or straight chisels are so sharp as to not require skew?
You don’t need to tap out a chisel, even wide ones, because the hollow in a chisel is shaped differently than the hollow of a plane blade. More info here: http://giantcypress.net/post/931326880/hatful-of-hollow
Originally Posted by
Noah Wagener
Wilbur, I saw in you blog you listen to Husker Du while working. That makes no sense at all.
I Apologize. You never know What's Going On (Inside My Head).
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