Flattening Plane Irons on Electric Grinder
Sanford Levy
>After hours of only partly successful plane iron flattening (I usually ended with a shinny, but slightly curved blade), I simply held the irons to the sides of my grizzley grinder wheel. The grinder has a wet, upright wheel and I was able to hold two blades to the moving stone at once, one on either side of the wheel. This flattened them far better than I was able to do by hand, and in fairly short order. I had some really nasty, pitted irons from ebay planes that were flattened in about ten minutes. The machine left the surface more or less polished too, though there are some scratches left over since the sides of the wheels do not seem to have been made for this and have a few slighly rough points. I will polish the scratches off later. Maybe I will rub them out on a 1200 water stone and then do a finer polish on sandpaper. Have I missed something? Is there some hidden trap in this easy flattening method? Sanford