Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
LV scraper plane blade upgrade
Matt in Iowa
>This may have been covered before but I put in a Lie-Nielsen replacement blade in my LV scraping plane and it is AWESOME! The flimsy stock blade is just not up to it but the replacement I got from Woodcraft makes it very functional.
Re: LV scraper plane blade upgrade
Jim in Burlington
>The thin blade is made convex by the thumb screw at the bottom LV sells a heavier blade if you want to use it like a regular scraper. Did you put a small hook on the LV blade?
Re: LV scraper plane blade upgrade
Lyn J. Mangiameli
>I've used the LV scraper with all three blades: the thin LV blade, the thick LV blade and the even thicker L-N blade. As you have discovered, all are drop in replacements for each other.
Now I'm not much of a scraper plane user, being generally able to achieve what I want with the correct (usually very high angle) smoothing plane. When I do use the LV scraping plane, my preferences has been a bit different, as I greatly prefer the thin blade, which is the only one of the three that can be bowed. This lets me fine tune the aggressiveness of the blade, and how wide a swath it takes. For more conventional wide swath scraping, I can very much see why one would prefer the thicker blades and it is nice to have the choice of either the LV or L-N version.