Jeffrey Larsen
06-05-2007, 1:50 AM
I recieved a beat up box today and it contained my ebay 50$ number 8 corrugated--Probably not a collectors piece, but in my opinion useable. All I had time do today was try it out and then work to sharpen things up a bit. The blade Has the "SW" mark on it. It had a lot of chips on it. I used (very carefully!!) a bench grinder to get it down to clean metal. Then I took a square and ground the business end until it was flat. Then back to the grinder. Finally, Because I don't have a guide to use on the grinder, I used a file to get the blade close to where it should be. The spend half an hour on a coarse stone. Finallyworked with some other stones and finally got out my "diamond" stones--I don't know what these really are, but for 6 dollars on ebay what the Hay.
Anyway, after my frenetic and amaturistic attack, the blade is not hair cutting sharp after the back of it was flattened on a fine stone.
It cuts great! The only question I have relates to the shape of the shaving--again, I tried to get the blade square. The shaving is about an inch across most of the time and comes from the very center of the blade. If I put it out further, the shaving is wider but not uniform.My thought on this is that the center of the blade is longer than the sides and that I need to work to get the blade quarer yet--I am tentatively planning on doing this by using the file on the center of the blade and then resharpening it.
As you can tell, I am very new at this and don't even know how to talk the talk. The info you all have shared so for has been invaluable. I am having to make do with some less than state of the art equipment because of finances at the moment, but will get sharpening stuff as that allows.
BTW, I have gathered that the grinder must be used judiciously to not screw up the temper of the metal in case anyone wondered.
One final question--are there any replacement blades that are more ecnomicallly priced than the Hock or LN blades That I could get that would be thicker than the original? Don't want to spend more on a blade than the plane cost to begin with:eek: !!
Over and out, Jeff
Anyway, after my frenetic and amaturistic attack, the blade is not hair cutting sharp after the back of it was flattened on a fine stone.
It cuts great! The only question I have relates to the shape of the shaving--again, I tried to get the blade square. The shaving is about an inch across most of the time and comes from the very center of the blade. If I put it out further, the shaving is wider but not uniform.My thought on this is that the center of the blade is longer than the sides and that I need to work to get the blade quarer yet--I am tentatively planning on doing this by using the file on the center of the blade and then resharpening it.
As you can tell, I am very new at this and don't even know how to talk the talk. The info you all have shared so for has been invaluable. I am having to make do with some less than state of the art equipment because of finances at the moment, but will get sharpening stuff as that allows.
BTW, I have gathered that the grinder must be used judiciously to not screw up the temper of the metal in case anyone wondered.
One final question--are there any replacement blades that are more ecnomicallly priced than the Hock or LN blades That I could get that would be thicker than the original? Don't want to spend more on a blade than the plane cost to begin with:eek: !!
Over and out, Jeff