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13 June 2017 at 6:43 pm #312922
Been meaning to try something that may achieve this – draw a circle the size you want with a giant compass (a piece of wood with a nail through for the centre point and a hole in the other end with a pencil sticking through. Then using the arc of the circle, cut out a curved piece of wood a few inches “long.” Then you could screw in a piece of bandsaw blade to the wooden arc, attach the wooden arc to the end of the wooden compass and use it as a sort of curved kerfing plane. If it works it may be quicker than handsawing past the line of a drawn circle and then refining with files / spokeshaves etc. Especially if you reuse the jig.
14 April 2017 at 1:18 am #311082I’ve had the same issue for two different reasons – one was my bevel was between 35 – 45 degrees which causes it to bite into the wood a lot less readily, if at all. So I’d double check you’re sharpening to 30 degrees or even maybe slightly less. The other reason is just general blunting of the edge as far as I can tell – if you hold a freshly sharpened plane blade, bevel down at a 45 degree angle against your thumb or finger nail, it should really grab and not slide along. After planing for some time, try this again and it will be more readily slide across your nail. This shows me I need to re-sharpen. When planing oak I have to re-sharpen very often. Unless you have some kind of amazing steel I guess resharpening all the time isn’t just what you have to do for good planing.
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