Plane Blade Camber

[David C]

Joe,

Glad you enjoyed the article.

Import from Joel at 'Tools for Woodworking' is not at all difficult if you want a plate. His service is excellent. They are rather specialised and I doubt that they will be retailed here. Of course having said that someone is bound to start immediately...........

May I suggest that my plane blade sharpening dvd shows a simple method of cambering a blade with ordinary stones. What's more the amount of camber is easily varied to suit the type of work being done.

best wishes,
David

 

[Joe]

Thanks David. The cambering method you demonstrate in your DVD does indeed work very well for me now that I'm working with flat stones and a much smaller secondary bevel. I can't honestly see myself buying a crowning plate any time soon, but the idea of such precision does really appeal to the perfectionist in me...

 

[David C]

Joe,

Spot on. Keeping the secondary, coarse stone bevel narrow seems to solve almost all blade shaping problems, whether squareness or camber, plus ensuring rapid resharpening.

Experience with my students shows that shaping or squareness problems seem always to be associated with a wide coarse stone bevel, as this makes change of profile too slow.

I have to confess, that when I want nice wide finishing shavings for wide surfaces, I am using the red plate to create a known subtle camber.

Probably would not have bought the plate, but having been asked to test it I have become rather fond of using it for this particular job. As stated in the article it took a while to overcome my initial prejudice.

best wishes,
David

 

[Paul Kierstead]

Damn, I wish that mag was available here. I would love to read that article.

 

[bugbear]

Damn, I wish that mag was available here. I would love to read that article.

All things are available at a price. Sadly, the price may be high.

BugBear

 

[pam niedermayer]

All things are available at a price. Sadly, the price may be high.

Yes, but magazines these days don't need to charge for physical mailing, which must be a major part of the cost of crossing an ocean. It's pretty trivial to make a pdf (please, mag people, single column only) once you've got the marked up files for printing.

Pam

 

[Paul Kierstead]

Damn, I wish that mag was available here. I would love to read that article.

All things are available at a price. Sadly, the price may be high.

In one of those brilliant bits of web usage, if I check the rates I get:

1 Year (13 issues) @ �75.00

Now that "?" seems pretty damn important; CAD? Ugh. Euro? Very Ugh. Pounds? Keel over. Thank, guys.

However, in a fit, I fired up IE (totally and utterly against my principles, but desperation called), and it is, indeed, 75 pounds sterling.

This will come to about CAD$146.71, or about CAD$11.28 per issue which is actually almost sane for a mag here.Almost. A special edition of something like an Annual from FWW comes to usually about $9.99+taxes, so it is roughly inline. Mind you, that same issue is a few dollars cheaper south of the border, and our dollars are now at par, so the $9.99 is a bit of a sore point, but all y'all over the pond know that pain well.....

Maybe I will do it. I'm with Pam here though; how about a downloadable edition, boys?

Edit: Of course, I did all that for the wrong magazine ....

 

[Paul Kierstead]

Lets try that again. For the actually correct magazine (I had Good Woodworking stuck in my head), 12 issues is a paltry 50 quid. Well now, that is pretty much downright reasonable for an overseas subscription.

 

[pam niedermayer]

...
However, in a fit, I fired up IE (totally and utterly against my principles, but desperation called), and it is, indeed, 75 pounds sterling....

I don't know what IE has to do with currency conversion; but here's a non-denominational source: http://www.xe.com/ucc/

Pam

 

[Paul Kierstead]

I don't know what IE has to do with currency conversion; but here's a non-denominational source: http://www.xe.com/ucc/

Not conversion, display. In IE, it displays as the pound symbol. In Firefox (in my set-up), it displays as a question mark. This is because the original was coded as a character that is not actually standards compliant for a browser...

 

[pam niedermayer]

I see, thanks. I still don't know what magazine you want, though.

Pam

 

[Paul Kierstead]

LOL!! A good example of poor communication. The magazine in question is Furniture and Cabinetmaking. Probably still too many router articles, but that seems largely unavoidable. From who has written for it, Good Woodworking also looks like a good choice, though I am not sure. Not a bad site though.

 

[pam niedermayer]

Yeah, I've been lusting after F&C for quite a while, would also like to see if GW continues with Jeff Gorman type quality; but then I remember that I almost never am able to read more than one mag to which I've subscribed. So for the last 3 years that's been Pop WW, and even that I haven't read all the way through since summer. It's taken me about thirty years to acknowledge and act on this, now save a pile of money.

Pam