Trafalgar
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FWIW, ECE mentions making their planes so the irons bed on only three points (and how this affects the lateral adjustment of their planes). Makes sense. The last thing you want is a hump, that's for sure.
CStanford":3ugnj2w3 said:Solid craftsmanship. I'd be proud of it.
Surely folks must realize that Bailey's design wasn't his first drawing of the thing. I'm sure he went through many iterations and trials.
That people expect the same performance from later, poorly executed Bailey copies in substandard materials speaks for itself I'd say.
Stanley or Record of good vintage will give good service, as history has proved.
CStanford":3qfvu0pi said:I think Holtey beds his irons on three metal buttons (for lack of a better term) inserted into to the wood of the infill.
David C":2rg0aqnm said:Just for the record, I had nothing whatever to do with the design or sale of L-N new improved chipbreakers.
I have used them since they first came out and they work very well indeed, a fact which D-W seems to be in denial over.
David Charlesworth
Cheshirechappie":tpdrqyai said:Thick cutting irons (say 2.5mm and thicker) are stiff enough not to vibrate in service, and thus cap-iron design and bedding are less critical.
Thin cutting irons (2mm or less) are flexible enough to vibrate (chatter) in some circumstances, and need more attention paid to stiffening up by use of a suitable cap-iron design and better trapping against the frog bed. This was discovered by Leonard Bailey many years ago, hence his patent to alleviate the problem, allowing him to use thinner irons successfully. Most modern cap-irons in thin-ironed Bailey-type planes do not, for some reason unknown, accord with the provisions of Bailey's patent, leaving the planes liable to chatter in adverse circumstances.
This is not just abstract theory. It accords with observation and practical experience.
(Engineering note - stiffness is proportional to the cube of thickness, so only a relatively small increase in thickness of a plane iron will give a significant increase in stiffness. Conversely, only a small decrease in thickness will give a significant increase in flexibility.)
The rest is just noise.
CStanford":13yms037 said:I suspect Paul Sellers is right when he attributes chatter to friction of the sole of the plane:
https://paulsellers.com/2012/10/more-co ... s-chatter/
Or I guess somebody would have to come up with a reason why a plane chatters on one pass and then does not on the next after the sole is lubricated.
Might make sense to try the easy fix first. The cost is a candle-stub.
MIGNAL":2kypqdif said:Sometime later I bought a thick Ray Iles blade and a two piece Clifton chip breaker. Not once have I found it to work any better thatn the 50's Record No.4 that I bought for £15 (including the postage!).
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