On making my own planes: Common and York pitch
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I’ve been searching because I’ve been outbid in ebay 馃檨
You guys shuld be working wood and NOT biding on ebay!!!Any way, this week I made a repare in and very old coffin plane – that work out nice – and gave me some cofidence. I maybe try to do my own planes.
-My question to the community is for planning very hard wood (bowdichia nitida spruce) with awkward grain the 50潞 degree bed (york pitch) does it make truth difference?
-Or this will do the trick?
“…It鈥檚 much cheaper to have a second iron, just an ordinary non-thick one from any plane, and put a 5-degree micro-back bevel on the flat face, 1mm is more than enough, and that gives exactly the same effect without retrofitting another frog. This was known as the poor-man鈥檚 york pitch…” in
https://paulsellers.com/2014/04/questions-answered-why-bevel-up-bevel-down-low-angle-high-angled-planes-are-equal-to-task/Thanks in advance for your thoughts
16 March 2015 at 12:09 pm #125630I think Paul was referring to a bevel up plane. Bevel up planes offer some convenience that you can just switch the iron instead of changing the frog. I do have a bevel up plane with several irons i find they work decently. If you are planing very hard highly figured wood,I would tend to reach for a No.80 cabinet scraper then perhaps a card scraper. I usually just use what works for me. It is my opinion that once you start getting up into higher pitch irons you are getting into the NO.80 realm of cutting geometry.
Thanks for the input @timothyc7
Yes I think the same about that post.
But my rearch lead me to the smoothing wooden plane with the “York Pitch” 50潞 bevel bead as a possible solution for hard and tropical wood as I mention on the post.And I have a project for that wood “bowdichia nitida spruce” also known as “Sucupira from Brazil). And I can’t have consistent results with a 45陋 bevel down plane. A scraper works fine, but extremely slow….
All the rest of the comunity, please help!
16 March 2015 at 12:28 pm #125632I should add that it depends on the bed angle on your coffin smoothing plane what degree iron would work to achieve a York pitch cutting edge. I don’t own any wooden bodied planes so I wouldn’t want to misguide you in that regard.
16 March 2015 at 12:40 pm #125633Find out the angle at which the cutting iron is bedded in the plane and add whatever number that equates to 50 degrees and you have the angle at which to grind the iron. for me it would be trial and error to get the result you are looking for. I can’t see why you shouldn’t be able to have several irons with different bevel cutting edges for your coffin smoother. you can also try a toothing iron for aggressive stock removal as well.
I would recommend reading Derek Cohen’s blog on cutting angles and chipbreaker settings in figuerd wood http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ToolReviews/VeritasCustomPlanes4.html. Derek also has a lot of information on plane making on his site.
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