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Stunning shaving...

WoodburnBob

>Rolf, what is the cutting angle of your blade? It looks from the pictures to be something less than 90 degrees...perhaps 80 or so. I only say this because, out of my ignorance, based simply on my own limited experience of running a #112 with the blade at 95-135 degrees, I can't even image that sort of shaving coming out of a #112 on birch. My first thought was that at 75-80 degrees you are showing us the performance of a rock-solid #112 tuned as an ultra-high angle smoother!

Re: Stunning shaving...

Rolf Schmid

>I just put the blade in the plane as it came out of the box, so I gave no much thought to the blade angle. Now I measured the angle, it is 95� so with the the burr, which I can�t measure, the blade might really act as a ultra high angle smoother??????

next time i will use the thick A2 blade.....

regards

Rolf

Holy you-know-what!

Paul M. in San Diego

>I have the LN scraper plane.

I've honed that blade.

I've fussed with the angle settings.

I've honed the blade again.

I've flattened the "back" which is really the front.

I've tried the approach where you put a piece of paper under the sole to set the blade.

I've tried all different angles.

I've tried with and without a burr.

I've tried using a hammer to fine adjust the lateral, because the blade moves as you screw it down.

I've never gotten anything close to what you show.

I think I need to try the LV scraper. Anyone want to trade their LV scraper for my LN scraper straight up? The LN is "worth" more! ;-)

Re: Holy you-know-what!

Rolf Schmid

>Hi Paul,

what makes the difference is the burr, which has to be drawn to the relative thin blade. This way the blade does more cutting than scraping.

I won�t trade the LN-Scraper, just try to find a blade, you can make a burr on...

The cutting action with the thick A2 Blade, I also bougth was not so smooth as whith the thin one

regards

Rolf

Re: Holy you-know-what!

Alice Frampton, UK

>Paul,

Yep, same tale here. Go to the LV site and take a look at the instructions for their scraper plane; they beat the L-N ones hollow and should help.

Cheers, Alf

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WoodburnBob

>Figure 2a in the instructions imply the intent is to have a cutting angle in the vicinity of 75 degrees. I'm just eye-balling a guess on the anle here. I guess I'd call this very high-angle smoothing device. If you flipped over a bevel down bench plane blade with a 30 degree bevel, you ought to have a pretty close approximation.

I'd call it scraping when the cutting angle is greater than 90 degrees...I'm an ignoramus though, so keep that in mind. It is possible to get pretty good scraped "shavings" without forming or turning a hook and truly scraping at a cutting angle greater than 90 degree.

No matter what you call it, Rolf's shavings from that plane/scraper with that setup are pretty impressive and wouldn't actually make bad ad copy.


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