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Tuning up a 10 1/2?

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Tuning up a 10 1/2?

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Tuning up a 10 1/2?

James Watriss

>So, I found a really, REALLY nice 10 1/2 on ebay. For those of you who don't know, it's a rabbeting plane that's roughly the size and shape of a #3. It's at school right now. Rosewood handles are in cherry condition, the whole thing is fantastic. And the seller has the blade wonderfully sharp. Unfortunately, his/her stones must be very, very crowned. There's a high spot in the middle, so only the corners come down.

My question: How would you tune this particular blade? I normally camber the blade a very little bit, but it seems to me that it might negate the usefulness of the rabbeting function of the plane. I mean, what good is a blade going to the corners if it doesn't come down to the wood at the corners? Or should I camber it anyway, and use the lateral adjust to bring hte corners down when I need to? Or shoudl there actually be a high spot in the middle, as it is now, so that both corners can be used?

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Picture of a 10 1/2 (but not of mine) 

James Watriss

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>I've got two LN rebates (10-1/4 and 60-1/2R) that I sharpen straight across, they work fine this way.

Pam

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Adam's article

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>in the mag a few months back covered this. He divided planes into groups like bench and trim. The 10 1/2 looks like a bench plane, but it is really a trim or fitting plane. Those blades are always sharpened true. Nice plane to find.

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#6

The only disadvantage of a 10-1/2

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>is that people with big lumpy hands like mine find them kinda cramped at the back. Mine came cracked, and my uncle had to weld it up; it's a pretty little thing, even so.

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Any idea when that article came out?

James Watriss

>What month, etc? I'll have to dig through back issues and see what I can find.

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I think

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>it was sometime in the first half of 2005. I will dig through my archives this weekend.

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Re: August 2005

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>This article is truly fine, as I told Adam on another site. The reclassification of plane types is rational, speaking as one who never understood the bench/block plane categories.

Pam

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Actually

Frank D. in Montreal

>IIRC he followed (or was inspired by) H. Mercer's classification (from his book "Ancient Carpenters' Tools"). It's interesting that Mercer tells the difference between planes by the shape of the blade, and not by size like most people do today.

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Re: Actually

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Thanks, Frank, I couldn't remember Mercer's name. I don't know that we do differentiate by size these days, just look at the size range of block planes LN catalogs. That would be too easy. :)

As it is, I've taken to using a query to get to a particular LN plane, otherwise it takes me forever to flip through their categories.

Pam

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#13

yes, no camber on rabbet planes...

Dave Thompson

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