Sharpness?
…as the primary bevel or a hollow bevel, the edge is strengthened using a second bevel. Some say it is faster but I very much doubt that that is true….
Search Results for: bevel up planes
Questions Answered – 50-Degree Bevel Irons?
…planes ranging in length from around 5″ to 24″. New planes now being made and sold as bevel-up planes are not bench planes and generally cannot be used in the…
Myth and mystery surrounding plane and chisel bevels
…thrust, so you cannot dismiss the efficacy of the bevel-up planes either. I don’t think that its an either other situation and I do like bevel-up planes. You don’t have…
Plane-ability
…subsequent planing with longer planes like Jack and Try planes. Jack planes also wore down in somewhat equal measure to the shorter smoothing plane cousins through continuous and consistent work….
Reworking new planes to act like old and well used ones
…acquainted with them all. It’s somewhat controversial today in my saying that bevel-up planes cannot fully replace bevel-down planes, but I stand by this because I know it to be…
Rehardening My Plane Iron
…Changing the bevel angle on a bevel-down plane blade a few degrees one way or the other makes no felt difference at the cutting edge, but on a bevel-up plane,…
A Wonderfull Book For Your Library
…out a house in a day or two with hand planes such as moulding planes, rebate planes, plough planes and so on. Going back though, the joiners and carpenters of…
A plane difference
…planes like snipe bill planes and various moulding planes where grooves were run along the face of say a skirting board or architrave to allow moulding planes of different profiles…
Ups and Downs With Plane Irons – A Working Video Perspective
…difference between a low-angle bevel-up and a high-angle bevel-down, whether wood or metal, new or old, straight from the box or from eBay once you sharpen and fettle the planes….
The Bevel-down Planes Will Readily Repair Bevel-up tear-out
…size and so I will reserve my view that all bevel up planes are limited and should not be seen as some recent development in the improvement of bench planes….