Slitter cutter
Davy Barr
>Pardon my ignorance, but can anyone give an example of where they would use a slitter cutter on a 45 plane or similar plane? What are they used mostly for? To cut thin wood or veneer?
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Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
>The slitter scores the wood on cross grain applications for a cleaner cut. BTW, on a 45 this is done when pulling the plane back towards you.
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joel
>Yip - you got it exactly right - they had a pretty common purpose in the early last century which was to cut out thin wood used for lath for plastering. (If you don't have table saw and need 20 pieces of last scoring and snapping works pretty well)
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William Duffield on the Cohansey
>It works for making inlay banding and also for wooden model airplane spars and wooden model ship planks and many other small parts, like tooth picks, shoe pegs, epoxy stirrers and applicators, etc., from thin stock.
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#5Duu...I was thinking knickers
Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
>not slitters, Sorry for the mistake.
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#6New Slitters for Sale *LINK*
Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL
>Jim Reed is making and selling new replacement slitters for the Stanley #45. I got some match plane cutters from him, and if these are of similar quality, they should be quite good.
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William Duffield on the Cohansey
>That's less than I paid for mine, but I'll bet Jim's don't have the October 24, 1882 patent date stamped on them :^)
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walt quadrato
>No they don't have the date but I can vouch for their quality. I picked one up from Jim recently and IMHO I think it's better then the original..harder and holds an edge longer. not affiliated yada yada yada....just a happy customer.
walt q
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#9Im, I think you mean't nickers, not knickers :-)
Mark Harrison -- in Sydney, Australia
>Welcome to homonym hell :-)
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ChrisF
>Out of curiosity (because I have a Stanley #45 and the slitter is the only part I'm missing), how thick a piece of lumber is it practical to use a slitter on? Like, say I had a board 1" thick and 8" wide, and I wanted to rip a bunch of 1/4" thick strips off of it....would a slitter do it in fairly short order, or would it be faster to just rip the strips off with a saw?