Reply To: Stanley side rebate plane No. 79 blades sharpening

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Benoît Van Noten
24 September 2021 at 4:37 pm #730040

“why is the bed where the blades sit in an angle, and not parallel to the sole of the plane…? This way, only one side of the blade will cut, and not the full width, right (pic in attach)”
Indeed, looking at your various pictures, it seems the bed of the blades are not correctly milled which causes what you get when trying the Paul Sellers method
(picture number ending with 153531 and 153540). The top of the blades being lower are abraded first.
Try a string of paper (tape?) shim on the low side to see what happens.