Seth Terndrup
07-14-2019, 7:46 PM
Hello -
I’m using a Stanley Bailey #7 to plane a 3/4” x 8” x 20” piece of quartered sycamore. I set the lateral adjustment of the blade by putting a 1/2” piece on edge in the vise and take a shaving on the right side of the plane and then the left side until I get a consistent shaving on both sides.
Today as I was thicknessing the piece mentioned above, i was taking very very light shavings and I noticed the blade was out of square after about 10 minutes. The right side wasn’t taking any shaving at all but the left still was. So I checked on the 1/2” piece in the vise and sure enough, no shaving on the right side. So I reset the blade and took a few more shavings and checked again and the same problem. No shavings on the right side of the plane blade. So again I reset the plane blade so it was parallel and took one shaving on the sycamore, and checked the lateral adjustment on the 1/2” piece. Again the blade was back out of square.
I was taking smoother type shavings, so maybe the tolerance just isn’t that tight in the lateral adjust. Other than that does anybody have any ideas what might be going on?
Thanks - Seth
I’m using a Stanley Bailey #7 to plane a 3/4” x 8” x 20” piece of quartered sycamore. I set the lateral adjustment of the blade by putting a 1/2” piece on edge in the vise and take a shaving on the right side of the plane and then the left side until I get a consistent shaving on both sides.
Today as I was thicknessing the piece mentioned above, i was taking very very light shavings and I noticed the blade was out of square after about 10 minutes. The right side wasn’t taking any shaving at all but the left still was. So I checked on the 1/2” piece in the vise and sure enough, no shaving on the right side. So I reset the blade and took a few more shavings and checked again and the same problem. No shavings on the right side of the plane blade. So again I reset the plane blade so it was parallel and took one shaving on the sycamore, and checked the lateral adjustment on the 1/2” piece. Again the blade was back out of square.
I was taking smoother type shavings, so maybe the tolerance just isn’t that tight in the lateral adjust. Other than that does anybody have any ideas what might be going on?
Thanks - Seth