Which plane–Bevel-up First or Bevel-down?
…I am confused if I should buy more bevel down planes or go with low angle bevel up planes. Could you write a blog for new woodworkers to clarify the…
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Will I enjoy planing more with a bevel-down plane?
…wouldn’t necessarily trade the planes you have, but, yes you will find bevel down planes more productive and practical than BU planes on the whole. That should make it more…
Custom Sharpening – Bevel-ups and Jack Planes
…conventional bevel-down planes. On a controversial element, I find only minimal differences between bevel up and bevel down planes when it comes to working the planes and when I take…
A follow-up
…feels in the wood. Bevel down and with the blade elevated as in a bevel-down plane will make no difference. Bevel up, as in bevel-up planes, can make a marked…
Bench Planes
…plane choice and bevel-up planes: https://paulsellers.com/2015/04/paul-long-plane-bevel-up-bevel-down-part-i/ https://paulsellers.com/2015/05/paul-long-plane-bevel-up-bevel-down-part-ii/ https://paulsellers.com/2013/06/which-plane-bevel-up-first-or-bevel-down/ https://paulsellers.com/2015/11/will-i-enjoy-planing-more-with-a-bevel-down-plane/ Will bevel-up planes fix tear-out? https://paulsellers.com/2016/07/bevel-planes-will-readily-repair-bevel-tear/ Do you use high angle frogs? https://paulsellers.com/2012/08/on-the-frog-in-your-throat/ How do you sharpen bevel up planes? You…
Questions Answered – Why Bevel-up, Bevel-down, Low-angle, High-angled Planes are Equal to Task
…reality even though this is the reality of why bevel-up planes differ from bevel-downs and why they never replaced the bevel-down planes through the centuries or came anywhere close to them….
Bevel-up in a bevel-down plane? Questions on planes series
…planes until more recent years when some modern makers introduced bevel-up planes and began calling them bench planes too. Bench planes can be left the way they are as bevel-down…
Hope chest – Raising the panels
…of tear-out, which proved yet again my theory that bevel-down planes are more valid for general planing than bevel-up planes. Now let me look at something on the bevel-up planes:…
Questions Answered – York Pitch Only Answers One Problem
…to the bevel down planes. The addition of a few degrees to the cutting iron whether bevel down or bevel up does make a difference to the cut and to…
On planes we need
…all bullnose, shoulder planes and mitre planes had all been called bevel up planes, or so too spokeshaves as side-handled bevel-up or bevel-down planes. Bevel up and bevel down seems…