Matthew N. Masail
07-21-2012, 3:49 PM
I have a new (as in not an old plane) no.3 iron smoothing plane, the chip breaker has a flat bevel rather that a rounded edge.
last week I tried setting the chip breaker close for the first time. the mouth is also set very tight. well... It planes beautifully, but the weirdest thing is that the shavings come out straight! not curled in any way... has anyone
had this before? I don't really care and I'm thinking it might be a good thing, but I'm wondering what's causing it. perhaps the mouth combined with the chip breaker is holding the shaving straight as if it were going through a roller press?
edit: I just tried it out against the grain on some spalle, and it didn't tear out. this is wood the tears out aggressively if I don't get the direction right. it doesn’t leave a high gloss finish as when I plane with the grain, but I couldn't feel any tear-out in the surface. I'm guessing all this means I got the chipbreaker set right? doe's a closely set chipbreaker usually give straight shavings?
last week I tried setting the chip breaker close for the first time. the mouth is also set very tight. well... It planes beautifully, but the weirdest thing is that the shavings come out straight! not curled in any way... has anyone
had this before? I don't really care and I'm thinking it might be a good thing, but I'm wondering what's causing it. perhaps the mouth combined with the chip breaker is holding the shaving straight as if it were going through a roller press?
edit: I just tried it out against the grain on some spalle, and it didn't tear out. this is wood the tears out aggressively if I don't get the direction right. it doesn’t leave a high gloss finish as when I plane with the grain, but I couldn't feel any tear-out in the surface. I'm guessing all this means I got the chipbreaker set right? doe's a closely set chipbreaker usually give straight shavings?