Stuart Ablett
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Since I got given the lovely plane, I've been working on getting it really sharp, and using it to make piles of shavings
I have a very nice straight grained piece of pine, that is lovely to plane, very good for setting up the plane to perform well.
Using the 15x jewelers loupe, I've been quite surprised at how bad the blade looked when I thought it was "Sharp", after a fair bit of time and a lot of sharpening and work on how I hold the blade and how I move it, I'm am able to get the blade sharp, not as good as it may be one day, but sharper by far than what I considered sharp just a short while ago
I planed off some super fine shavings the other night........
........ these are full width, full length shavings, and that reads out at 0.025mm or about 0.0009843" or just very near "1 mil".
I know this is not really "Using" the plane, like on a project, but that is OK, I'm just learning how to tweak it and get it to run nice, it sure is a nice plane, and I hope to be able to add a few more from Lie-Nielsen in the future.
I think I'd get the No. 4 1/2 next.
Cheers!
I have a very nice straight grained piece of pine, that is lovely to plane, very good for setting up the plane to perform well.
Using the 15x jewelers loupe, I've been quite surprised at how bad the blade looked when I thought it was "Sharp", after a fair bit of time and a lot of sharpening and work on how I hold the blade and how I move it, I'm am able to get the blade sharp, not as good as it may be one day, but sharper by far than what I considered sharp just a short while ago
I planed off some super fine shavings the other night........
........ these are full width, full length shavings, and that reads out at 0.025mm or about 0.0009843" or just very near "1 mil".
I know this is not really "Using" the plane, like on a project, but that is OK, I'm just learning how to tweak it and get it to run nice, it sure is a nice plane, and I hope to be able to add a few more from Lie-Nielsen in the future.
I think I'd get the No. 4 1/2 next.
Cheers!