Richard Dooling
06-13-2009, 11:25 AM
I just want to throw this out there because when I read this it was one of those moments when a little light goes on in the darkness. This is from something I came accross that Derek Cohen wrote. I had been a little confused about how much a blade should be cambered. Thanks Derek.
“Generally, smoothers have a camber that removes the equivalent of a shaving thickness at each corner. A fore plane will remove 1/32” at each corner, and a jack plane will remove 1/16” at each corner”
So the amount of camber is established by the thickness of the shaving and the need to tuck the edges of the blade just inside mouth. Two planes of the same size set for different thicknesses will have the camber set for that thickness.
I don't meann to say "doh" but DOH!!
I can be so dense sometimes.:(
“Generally, smoothers have a camber that removes the equivalent of a shaving thickness at each corner. A fore plane will remove 1/32” at each corner, and a jack plane will remove 1/16” at each corner”
So the amount of camber is established by the thickness of the shaving and the need to tuck the edges of the blade just inside mouth. Two planes of the same size set for different thicknesses will have the camber set for that thickness.
I don't meann to say "doh" but DOH!!
I can be so dense sometimes.:(