New (second hand) plane

[garywayne]

Hi Ash.

If your combination stone is an oil sone, and concaved, you can flatten it with sand and water on a flagstone, (paveingstone). If it is glazed, soak it in petrol, or paraffin, then give it a good scrub. Regarding grinders. I found mine at the car boot sale for £2.00. Keep your eyes open.

persevere, and good luck.

 

[section_9]

Yowser!!

Cheers for all the help folks.

This certainly is a very nice forum indeed.

 

[section_9]

Hey, just to let you all know. I got the blade reground and now it cuts like a mofo........
It's lovely to work with now and all I need to do is keep up with the maintenance of the blade.....
Thanks again for all your help. It's greatly appreciated....


Be warned, I will be posting back here again


Peace out


Ash

Oh, When I finish the board I'll post a link for the pics if anyone is interested.

 

[bugbear]

Hey, just to let you all know. I got the blade reground and now it cuts like a mofo........

Unless you've also honed it, it won't be cutting anywhere near its potential!

BugBear

 

[section_9]

Honing? even more to to? err............. I'm guessing smooth side of the combo stone?
It got reground to 25 º Shall I put something else on at 30º?

 

[bugbear]

Honing? even more to to? err............. I'm guessing smooth side of the combo stone?
It got reground to 25 º Shall I put something else on at 30º?

Yes - if you you have any of the common jigs, it's usual (looks around nervously) to grind at 25 degrees, and "hone" at 30 degrees, on a finer surface.

Eventually, the 30 degree surface gets big, making honing slow, and more grinding is done to reduce it again.

BugBear

 

[section_9]

yeah, I had a jig and have done 30 as well as 35. That blade is like fried gold now.......

 

[George_N]

That blade is like fried gold now.......

Is that good?

 

[bugbear]

That blade is like fried gold now.......

Is that good?

it's probably young person speak. He *is* making a skateboard.

BugBear

 

[davegw]

That blade is like fried gold now.......

Is that good?

it's probably young person speak. He *is* making a skateboard.

BugBear

It's defined here

 

[section_9]

Well, I think that davegw got it spot on. Well done

And as for young person....... if almost 31 is young then young person I am

 

[davegw]

According to my doc I am transitioning to old (I'm 40), in other words old enough to moan, but young enough not to have much to moan about.

Mind you the Doctor I saw t'other day with a pain in my hip was very clear - I had transitioned! It was wear and tear

 

[section_9]

Holey mackerel. I best keep on skating then so I can get as much out of my body as I can before it totally fails on me.... I already have two titanium bolts holding the top of my tibia together.. Much more and I'll be like Steve Austin :wink: