Veritas and Lie-Nielsen LA Jack blades inter-changeable?

[Phillip Ngan]

I have a Veritas Low Angle Jack and I'd like to put in a LN 90 degree scraping blade. Anyone know if the blades are interchangeable between the Veritas and LN low angle jack planes?

[Joel Goodman]

I have a Veritas Low Angle Jack and I'd like to put in a LN 90 degree scraping blade. Anyone know if the blades are interchangeable between the Veritas and LN low angle jack planes?

They are different widths and the adjustment mechanism is different so they will not interchange.

[Jeremy Dorn]

I'm sure if you call up Lee Valley and talk to Rob that they'd probably be willing to special grind you a LV blade blank at 90 degrees. LV is awesome when it comes to customer support.

JD

[brian c miller]

let me know how this works out as I may want one too.

[Jim Belair]

Couldn't you just take a LV blade of any bevel angle and hone a "micro-flat" on it?

Jim B

[Derek Cohen]

Couldn't you just take a LV blade of any bevel angle and hone a "micro-flat" on it?

Jim B

Exactly!

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Phillip Ngan]

Jim and Derek, Thanks for the suggestion of putting a micro flat on a normal beveled edge iron. How wide should this flat be? Would 1/32" be OK for the initial flat?

What about instead of grinding the flat exactly 90 deg, it could be 88/92 degs so that there would be two scraping angles available?

[Derek Cohen]

Jim and Derek, Thanks for the suggestion of putting a micro flat on a normal beveled edge iron. How wide should this flat be? Would 1/32" be OK for the initial flat?

What about instead of grinding the flat exactly 90 deg, it could be 88/92 degs so that there would be two scraping angles available?

Hi Phillip

I would not recommend this. It sounds clever, but you then would have to hone the entire face of the bevel. That is inefficient.

Rather use the edge of a standard grind - 25/30 degrees - and flatten in off. I would play around with the bevel angle. Remember that a 90 bevel on the blade is actually a 102 degree cutting angle.

Regards from Perth

Derek

[brian c miller]

I found this article... seems helpful:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:QZfl6z4Zu-0J:www.finewoodworking.com/FWNPDF/011188110.pdf+Low-Cost+Scraper+Plane+Convert+a+low-angle+plane+simply+by+changing+blades&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiESAjFzDnujbPY4vmNQnIYofmz1flvpmmKX14M Ute6u_ewI6Pc1Lqm1fqCx5rLejq2mEXNR5OV78XDFvIDGNoj-bU3s77cLbUNwBGM9moUMUPFqqKqpCDlMKkGWnExWpa8esmm&sig=AHIEtbSAnEAlmHvor-7Q4Nvg0CcWt4ICZQ