You could use two pliers. That piece is not difficult to bend.
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You could use two pliers. That piece is not difficult to bend.
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Since it's lifting the iron before you clamp it, it may cause the lateral disc adj. and/or the depth adjustment yoke not to engage/fit properly. Yes, try to straighten it so it doesn't interfere.
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Your lateral adj. lever is bent upwards.
Take the frog out and make sure all fits well.
The iron should look like this when installed.
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Yes wanted to check if you were using an aftermarket thicker iron.
Set the cb even closer to the edge than shown in your picture. If you can extend and retract the iron edge through the mouth,...
Loosen the lever cap screw until it snaps on and off comfortably. See if that setting let's you adjust depth easily.
How thick is the iron you're using?
Rosewood can be burnished with a buffer wheel and polishing compound. A varnish is not necessary if one goes that route.
Wishing him speedy recovery and also to Steven Newmans' wife, who was in the hospital recently.
That bar is a calibrated reference edge, accurate to ±0.0002" per ft. It's certainly overkill for woodworking, but it's not insanely expensive and it has other uses in the shop, when lapping plane...
I'm not sure if you can buy yourself into a better performing plane, I believe your LN jack is capable of being set up as a smoother due to its high tolerances. You have what you need to figure out...
What is the issue with your smoother?
If you set the cb back to about 1/32" and plane with the grain, tear out is not an issue.
If you need practice, planing edges has a greater chance of...
Would these premium planes have needed the ruler trick to get them functional?
It seems to me one of those shortcuts that you get stuck with once you start using them.
Regarding the Dec. 24, 1867. I examined several of my Stanley planes. If the second bend of the chipbraker, the subject of the patent, was meant to avoid chatter, then it does not look like it is...
Use painter's tape to glue the PSA tape on. The PSA tape peals right off after it's spent. See my picture above.
This is how it happens in my shop, other people have other methods, what I do is just what I do. Once I've got a tool prepared, it will only need resharpening as it dulls with use. I've got a fine or...
That's debatable. My opinion is that it only matters that the iron is contacting and pressed against the frog under the spot where the lever cap is pressing down.
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Shoot, how did I missed...
By the time the Bailey patents were filed, the chipbreaker had been in use for over a century. I've scanned the patents and there's no mention of the cb's used for reinforcement. Probably not a...
But the iron is not free to vibrate its full length, only the short 5/16" length or so, as in the op first picture. The cap iron pressing down the iron to the frog at its feet stops vibration to...
Since we're talking about aligning the frog with the mouth, here's a Sargent 409 smoother I found yesterday. I'm looking at the mouth bevel and it doesn't look like 45 degrees. I measured the angle,...
I did a test in response to a question about tear out the other day. The OP got the usual answers about closing the mouth and higher angle frogs.
Here's a piece of smooth oak and a smoother with...
Not all panes have the back of the mouth machined at 45 degrees to match the frog angle, so one has to find the best setting to take that into account.
What is important is to have the area...
Just curious, to the OP, how are you grasping the handle? Three fingers pistol grip or four finger grip?
The bevel up planes seem have a larger handle and allows for four finger grip, possibly...
Up into the 1920s the logging of old growth heart pine, aka long leaf pine, ceased commercially. The industry basically cut most of what at some point were large forests.
My understanding is that...
If the iron says "cast steel", it's made out of "crucible steel", an early version of tool steel. I found this video showing the manufacturing process. It probably looked the same in the 19th...
I was jokingly making the point that one has to actually go out of his way to create chatter. I tried closing the mouth early on, it doesn't work, it forces you to move the cb back to prevent the...