Plane Iron Edge – Straight to Cambered
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Hello,
I have a Stanley 3 (probably a cheap version of it) and have been having trouble with plane tracks being left in my work. So far I have done the following with this tool:
– Flattened sole
– Used a file to smooth out the edges around the base of the sole.
– Prepared (removed any knicks, flattened back, ensured that the primary bevel is 25 degrees, etc) and sharpened the iron.
– Used file in the mouth to make sure there weren’t any burrs
– Cambered the blade.
After doing all of this I have notices that one side (left to be specific) still leaves a track while the right does not. Right now I am thinking that both sides are cambered but the left has some kind of sharp point even though it is cambered.
Has anyone else had this happen and have they found a way to correct?
Thank you.
Round the corners of your iron and check your lateral adjustment when you reset
If you use the method of hiking up one side of the blade to get your camber, it’s easy to produce an edge that is really two lines intersecting rather than a rounded feathering of the edge. This can produce a point that will leave tracks.
Does it look like one track, two tracks, or many tracks on each pass of the plane?
Have you checked the sides of the plane to the sole, I had a similar problem and eventually found I had dinged the side of the plane on something, a few swipes with a file at 45′ solved the problem.
Cheers David