Cap irons or Chip Breakers Do What?
…wood down as it passes into the cutter. The cap iron on the plane does no such thing. Now then, one last thing. All bevel up planes are cap iron…
…wood down as it passes into the cutter. The cap iron on the plane does no such thing. Now then, one last thing. All bevel up planes are cap iron…
…understood why makers never came up with a combined lever cap/cap iron lever cap that could replace the cap iron and offer the same dynamic as the cap iron does…
…adjuster and also they lateral adjuster sets in between the long slot in the plane iron. 9) Install the lever cap. 10) Pull the lever from its open position toward…
This Blog Post is About Scrub Planes. Had I said roughing planes, only a few would have understood. Even in the 1960s old wooden planes, the Stanley scrub plane and…
…These planes were mostly short-soled planes the length of a smoother but sometimes a little longer; most often in the form of shorter planes referred to as block planes. The…
…the same with a Lie Nielsen and that one bent a little more also. Loading them in a conventional plane and adding normal clampdown pressure from the lever cap they…
…frog back and forth in relation to the fore part of the plane’s sole. It’s this adjustment capability that alters the narrow opening across the plane’s sole between the very…
…either. My second plane is a second-level scrub plane which is a Stanley (or Record or other) #4 smoothing plane. These two plane types are my planes to tackle rough-sawn…
…the frog of a Bailey-pattern plane. This then is often the very thing anyone selling Bed Rock pattern planes states makes the difference advantaging the Bed Rock plane over the…
…of a cammed mechanism via a lever arm somewhere on the back of or beneath the top bandsaw wheel. This lever for a quick release of tension on the blade…