woodbloke
Established Member
There's been some interesting stuff on 'shaves recently. Last night I tried out John's method of clamping between the chipbreaker and iron of an old plane blade. It sort of worked but the screw is just too small to make it easy, 'specially with the thicker A2 LV blades. Here's a sequence of shots of a wooden holder which gives a fantastic grip :shock: on a blade and which can be fitted easily into Eclipse style guide:
The next pic shows a side view. It's an upper and lower tapered section with jaws at the front to hold the blade. These are then force together even tighter when the wedge is tapped home. The wax is for Waka's benefit
...everyone else just ignore it :lol: :
Here's the assembly taken apart:
and here's a detail shot of the recess for the blade:
Once the holder has been made it's a simple process to make the bench hook with the correct angles for A2 steel:
This holder solves my honing problems for 'shave blades but it's quite tricky to plane up the tapers on the various bits to make it work well - Rob
The next pic shows a side view. It's an upper and lower tapered section with jaws at the front to hold the blade. These are then force together even tighter when the wedge is tapped home. The wax is for Waka's benefit
...everyone else just ignore it :lol: :
Here's the assembly taken apart:
and here's a detail shot of the recess for the blade:
Once the holder has been made it's a simple process to make the bench hook with the correct angles for A2 steel:
This holder solves my honing problems for 'shave blades but it's quite tricky to plane up the tapers on the various bits to make it work well - Rob
