PM-V11 revisited

Re: CPM 3V

Bill Tindall

The wire edge left from a fine diamond plate can be persistent when going to 1 micron diamond. If 1 micron diamond leaves an wire edge I can not detect it.

Re: Kato and Kawai on this topic

CStanford

I sharpen HSS all the time, my turning tools.

Re: CPM 3V

david weaver

Oh, so if you're disregarding the wire edge until you're past your final step, no problem then.

There's definitely stuff there that shreds you if you're shaving (even at the 1/2 micron level), but at that level I also don't pay any attention to it for working wood. It comes off the first time the edge touches wood.

Re: Kato and Kawai on this topic

CStanford

I might get a Muji!

Re: Kato and Kawai on this topic

david weaver

Well, or maybe not. Looks like nobody carries them any longer. My initial knee-jerk reaction was to buy a second one when I liked the first one, out of fear that they might become NLA since the expensive polished tool crowd found them unacceptable.

I guess it's one of the times that I've spent past sensibility only to find out a guess was right.

I have had to, on both, do just a tiny bit of work around the mouth to prevent the iron from splitting out the sides, and in both planes, I had to reglue the horn.

For planes that were $60, made of ebony or ironwood, and with an HSS iron and a very good quality cap iron, that's hardly a problem. For the crowd of folks who have a conniption every time a handle comes loose on a chisel or some other such simply solved problem, I guess some people can't look past the fact that 99% of the product is just about a gift at the price.

Woodline and Traditional woodworker both carried the things, nobody does now.

The first version I got was ebony, the second was some sort of asian "ironwood" which is still excellent. Maybe they ran out of a supply of dried tropical wood big enough to build them, which was the reason for the switch from ebony in the first place.

Re: PM-V11 revisited

TomD

"That this new steel can be sharpened on oilstones is a nice thing."

Too true, though I gather it is nice like sharpening A2 on oilstones which is something folks have been doing since A2 was in the Boy's Brigade. Woodworkers, have not regarded this as a "better experience", generally.

Chisel target

Bill Tindall

Don't know about plane blades but the chisels are clearly targeted to anyone that wants the finest crafted chisel that $70 (or thereabouts as I don't know what they cost exactly) can buy. I will have part of a review shortly but I can preview it by saying that the ergonomics of the chisel are splendid. No matter whether you carve, pare or chop the contours of the handle and blade accommodate the shape and position of the hand.

Re: Chisel target *LINK*

William Duffield

Are the ergonomics the same as the Veritas O1 bench chisels?


Veritas Bench Chisels

Identical

Re: Kato and Kawai on this topic

CStanford

Sorry to hear they're likely no longer available.