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If I were you, I'd adjust the plane so that I can take even shavings, regardless of whether the iron is perfectly aligned to the sides. Just treat it like a regular block plane to get you comfortable...

I haven't tried to use the grits you have, only coarse SiC grits on float glass to refurbish oil and water stones.

I tried using SiC on float glass to lap the back of chisels and irons. I didn't...

You may have run out of steel and/or hardened steel that close to the shoulders of the chisels.

That's in the tempering range. If it's for a short period of time, it might not affect the steel. If it does, it would make the plate softer.

Would a hot blue process anneal the saw plate?

I saw that patent a while ago. I even chatted w someone who found one in the wild, if I remember correctly.

A number of issues comes to mind. First, the thin steel plate that would have been used...

I put Tried and True linseed oil on my bench since I had some, but it didn't do anything its appearance or performance. I wouldn't put anything that would leave a film on it. If there's the...

My reading of the introduction is that the paper was prompted by the appearance of super surfacers in the market. The paper does not say that it's a study of the Japanese hand plane cutting action. ...

I trust the description of the purpose of the study and video stated by Bill Tindall. He and Steve Elliot were the ones who actually tracked these professors and spoke with them.
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That's the function of the chipbreaker, to bend the shavings upwards so that the iron cuts the fibers before they lift the fibers ahead of the cut and cause tear out.
Without it, the shaving pull...

That's not my experience with metal Bailey style planes. If you close the mouth and move the cb down, the plane will clog under normal use. The reason is that with the cb so close the shavings are...

In those planing competitions they use a very particular type of wood, I think it's straight grained alaskan cedar. Whatever the wood they use it's a very particular kind and lends itself to the very...

And to think the only thing he needed to do to make his plane work was to move the damned frog back a little to get rid of the clogging.

The experiment shown in the video is just the iron and...

I would guess the reason was "group think". If you read the articles and forum posts from before 2012 you see that the general consensus was that chipbreakers were there to strengthen the iron and...

I think, from an esthetic point of view, the hardest thing to make is the handle. The right angle for the handle relative to the lenght of the saw, the shaping of the handle, the crisp intersection...

In Tom's saw making class, he told us that he couldn't source brass folded backs. He has a machine and a thin cutter.

I think it's not quite the same, the folded back pinches the plate to keep it...

I believe in the old days the back was folded. Nowadays I don't know who does that.

Tom Calisto makes his own backs and cuts the slits. I think he sells them, as well as other hardware. You'd have...

That's tempting. Can your machine do 4 or 4 1/2 TPI?
A frame saw would be nice to add to the shop.

Let me know when you are in Pittsburgh, we could try to invade David Weaver's shop.

The teeth of a saw are too coarse. These veneer cutters cut in a slicing fashion.

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I took a saw making class with Tom Calisto a couple of years ago. He brought his machine along. Teeth were cut in a couple of minutes, then sharpened for rip cuts in five minutes. Alternatively,...

I don't understand the hoopla about these saws. If that plate is simply flat spring steel stock, cut and then run through a teeth cutting machine, there's nothing special about this kit.

My father had a tool for cutting veneer. It kind of looked like this, but instead of pointy teeth, it had wide teeth. It was a curved cutting edge, with notches about every 1/8". It was in practice a...

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.