Timeline for What kind of plane is this?
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| Sep 24, 2018 at 12:57 | comment | added | Graphus | "It's also surprising that a cheap tool, after careful tuning, can raise up almost to the level of a much more expensive one" Yup. There's no better evidence of this than in hand planes, since hundreds of thousands of antique Stanleys and other makes can do work exactly as good as the most expensive planes ever made, so pricey they make full retail of a Lie-Nielsen seem like pocket change. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 12:49 | comment | added | Andrei Rînea | Yup. It's also surprising that a cheap tool, after careful tuning, can raise up almost to the level of a much more expensive one. In the meantime I've levelled the "frog" and now the blade sits perfectly flat to the "frog". It seems to be a bit better. | |
| Sep 21, 2018 at 13:43 | comment | added | Graphus | That's a good way to think of it. It's not widely recognised that virtually all tools need fettling (tweaks or modifications) to some degree. Even tools from the premium end of the mass market — Veritas, L-N, Clifton — while they are shipped sharpened even they benefit from some work being done to them to suit individual taste and user preferences. This is why I hate it when people recommending L-N planes and give as a selling point that they'll work straight from the box, because while that is technically true it's actually quite misleading because it implies nothing needs to be done to them. | |
| Sep 20, 2018 at 13:08 | comment | added | Andrei Rînea | @Graphus: Indeed! I will check to see if it affects it. Anyway I look at it as a learning experience on how to tune a plane. | |
| Sep 20, 2018 at 11:13 | comment | added | Graphus | Oh that's not good, they really need to step up their game a bit if this is common across their range of planes! Now in this case only worry about it IF it affects how the plane cuts. Given the short strokes a bullnose plane is for it may not be the issue it is on planes intended for taking longer shavings. | |
| Sep 19, 2018 at 22:45 | comment | added | Andrei Rînea | @Graphus : Excellent observation, I haven't noticed. I've added two pictures trying to show how the frog is misaligned but fixable quite easy. | |
| Sep 19, 2018 at 22:40 | history | edited | Andrei Rînea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 19, 2018 at 22:26 | comment | added | Graphus | Andrei, you may want to check whether the iron in your plane is dead flat like it should be or the bed is not cut straight (I think less likely) as from the photos it looks like the iron isn't supported along its whole length — if that's correct you'll be able to see a sliver of light behind the iron and this can adversely affect function (it can allow the blade to vibrate more, causing "chatter" or stuttering cuts). These planes are only intended for very short work so it may not be a problem in practice, but I just spotted it and thought I'd mention it just in case. | |
| Sep 19, 2018 at 22:00 | answer | added | Graphus | timeline score: 10 | |
| Sep 19, 2018 at 20:13 | history | asked | Andrei Rînea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |