An interesting method for cambered plane blade sharpening

now I've done quite a lot of work with this plane and I have a feeling that it would benefit from being sharpened so I'll do that next start by taking the chip breaker off sliding back and rotate him you will see that I'm using a new long-awaited Lee Nielson honing guide I'm very pleased with it it means in particular that a plane blade and a chisel if you want 30 degrees they both fit into the same slot and your projection is the same which makes it much more efficient 25 mil projection gives me 33 degrees which is what I like now next thing I want to tell you about is this remarkable device the a dirty dressing plate it was developed by Dave Powell who was the owner of DMT stones and the well-known Japanese craftsmen Toshiro dottie this is called a crowning plate it's convex and its width as opposed to flat and you use it to dress your water stones so it produces a known curve all the time and you get I've got the same hollow in this stone and the same hollow in this stone and it makes a fine camber which is very useful so I'm liking this rather a lot took a while but saves me a lot of strokes when I'm honing to put a wire edge on this might take me six or seven strokes if I was using a flat stone I'd maybe have to do five strokes in five different positions so you'll see that this is rather a lot quicker it also gives me a consistent camber the method I've used for many many years can give variable results with this method I know exactly what I'm getting there we go these are oh he she stones that was a 600 grit this is a 10,000 grit clean the wheel clean the tool now I tip up now 22 mill projection you can of course make yourself a stop block to do this if you wish this will just polish the tip for five strokes be quite sufficient clean the wheel - now this this is a flat stone this time it's a fifteen thousand grit Chaplin which I'm also liking it gives a very good polish and as you can see I'm using using the ruler trick as usual I use slightly more strokes that I used to because I've been paying more attention to the wear that takes place on the flat side of a blade like this it's called some people call it the wear bevel but a little bit more more strokes there has a good thing I'm pretty sure this is going to be yeah I do like to keep a wipe of oil camellia in this case on the flat side of my plane blade it's very very precious we don't want rust there the chip breaker is dropped on at right-angles swivel down carefully the whole aim of all this procedure is not to damage the front edge of the chip breaker which is a precision component now slide up I'm taking fine shavings I'll go pretty close I don't think I've got reversing grain I don't think I need to go to the extent of 1/4 IO setting but I will go quite close because the quarter to the raised in the quartered timber are quite brittle they can cause problems sometimes you didn't see that using the lever cap as a screwdriver is an old habit it was all right with a cast iron leave a cap wouldn't be at all all right with a bronze one I like to hold my plane at 45 degrees when I put the laid in it's less likely to run away from me down the slope and blunt itself before I've even started get it fairly close I'm just going to check the symmetry of my blade setting will will here and we may see the point where the blade starts cutting on either side now there you see that's very nearly perfectly symmetrical now it is always wise to check you're setting on a piece of scrap wood it's much better to mess up the scrap wood than your job but I'm pretty confident here I'm going to get on with the job you

Channel: David Charlesworth

Views: 51,752

Rating: 4.8216562 out of 5

Keywords: Sharpening, hand plane, plane iron, hand tools, Plane (Product Category), Wood, Blade

Id: WiPAS-iQFvk

Length: 8min 28sec (508 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 04 2015