David Weaver
02-21-2014, 10:28 PM
I don't get PW, but see that the article is out. If you recall from the original discussions on here two years ago, kees was tinkering with the cap iron back then, too.
The fact that kees hasn't been critical of the bloggers should make it easier for the article to get passed around the blogroll should it become available to the public, too.
Congrats Kees!
And just to continue the discussion, I just prepared two vintage wooden planes that haven't seen work in quite a long time tonight, and they are of the old style sprung (but not stamped out with a hump) style, and in both cases they had been neatly prepared with their leading edges curved, probably 50 degrees at their steepest. Someone had deliberately prepared the cap iron on the both planes to be used. I have no clue how long they've been out of use - one being a continental smoother and the other a vintage western wooden jointer, but now we know that little detail (the curved leading edge on the cap iron) isn't by accident or for lack of ability to make a flat bevel.
The fact that kees hasn't been critical of the bloggers should make it easier for the article to get passed around the blogroll should it become available to the public, too.
Congrats Kees!
And just to continue the discussion, I just prepared two vintage wooden planes that haven't seen work in quite a long time tonight, and they are of the old style sprung (but not stamped out with a hump) style, and in both cases they had been neatly prepared with their leading edges curved, probably 50 degrees at their steepest. Someone had deliberately prepared the cap iron on the both planes to be used. I have no clue how long they've been out of use - one being a continental smoother and the other a vintage western wooden jointer, but now we know that little detail (the curved leading edge on the cap iron) isn't by accident or for lack of ability to make a flat bevel.