Reply To: Transitional Planes – Looking for Opinions Based on Experience
Welcome! / Forums / General Woodworking Discussions / Tools and Tool Maintenance/Restoration / Transitional Planes – Looking for Opinions Based on Experience / Reply To: Transitional Planes – Looking for Opinions Based on Experience
It’s always a little hard to say for certain. A lot of planes are Harlequins from that era , but your lever cap looks like a Stanley product.
The Sargent models looked a bit different ( see attachment of a 3415 and the cap Stippled pattern instead of your chevron pattern.)
As to performance, the plane looks to be in good shape, almost unused. The chatter could mean the iron is poorly bedded, but before I messed with that, I’d make sure the iron is SHARP and ground at the correct angle, which was traditionally 30° for carbon tool steel ( similar to modern O1). That will allow clearance and is also the angle which carbon tool steel holds it’s edge best. Make sure also that there is no gap at the capiron edge. Paul has tutorials on that.
The way I was taught the correct was to check the the FACE of the bevel should be twice the thickness of the iron ( sin 30° = .5 from HS maths)
It’s hard to be certain, but it looks like your iron might be ground at a steeper angle.
It’s been a while since I messed with transition planes ( 30 years! Yikes!) but I believe the cast bits are wedded with oval holes. You might just have to loosen the screws and slide them forward or back until the iron is properly seated.
- This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Larry Geib.