charles mathieu
04-04-2019, 6:51 PM
Okay I've spent again another hour today to eleminate my plane tracks while finishing maple with a veritas low angle jack... Here's what I've done so far but I still can't eleminate the damn tracks.
I'm using a cambered iron and taking very very light passes to make sure the corners don't dig and from the width of the shavings I'm taking, the corners of the blade are definitely not involved. I freshly sharpened my iron up to 8000 and then removed the wired edge with the 8000 grit. This was followed by a couple of strokes of on the strop.
I was still getting very small little tracks so I sanded the whole base of the plane with a 400, 1000, 3000 and 8000. I can't feel any nicks except a tiny scratch below the tote area but the nick is not protuding, it's like a valley and since it's right in front of the blade, the wood it is touching is removed anyway. Again, the whole base seems very smooth, there's no nicks, no glued up dirt or whatever. The edge of the blade is nice to the naked eye, I can't see any nicks or burr either. I'm lost so if you could please help, would be appreciated.
Here's the best pic I could take. The big scratches are not that bad, it's mostly the very tiny ones that I can feel with my fingers. Very annoying.
The forum is resizing my picture, the original one has a much better definition, is there a way to avoid this compression ?
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I'm using a cambered iron and taking very very light passes to make sure the corners don't dig and from the width of the shavings I'm taking, the corners of the blade are definitely not involved. I freshly sharpened my iron up to 8000 and then removed the wired edge with the 8000 grit. This was followed by a couple of strokes of on the strop.
I was still getting very small little tracks so I sanded the whole base of the plane with a 400, 1000, 3000 and 8000. I can't feel any nicks except a tiny scratch below the tote area but the nick is not protuding, it's like a valley and since it's right in front of the blade, the wood it is touching is removed anyway. Again, the whole base seems very smooth, there's no nicks, no glued up dirt or whatever. The edge of the blade is nice to the naked eye, I can't see any nicks or burr either. I'm lost so if you could please help, would be appreciated.
Here's the best pic I could take. The big scratches are not that bad, it's mostly the very tiny ones that I can feel with my fingers. Very annoying.
The forum is resizing my picture, the original one has a much better definition, is there a way to avoid this compression ?
407191