wooden planes

[woodbloke]

Difficult to find though, in bevel up format :wink: -

Rob, there's a piece about bevel up wooden planes in Joel's latest blog, which might be of interest http://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/Merc ... BlogID=145

Cheers :wink:

Paul

Interesting, for some reason I thought that low angle wooden planes weren't made in days of yore...clearly they were, but as Joel says, they were fraught with a basic inherent design fault in that the timber under the blade (ie the bed) was prone to split or bulge. Nice link to Philly though - Rob

 

[Philly]

One thing to remember with Joels article - he's talking about bevel up wooden planes. This would require a very low bed angle (12-20 degrees) which is too low for a hard working wooden plane. There were other low angle planes (called strike blocks and Floggers) which had their irons bevel down, with a bedding angle of around 35 degrees - my miter planes have a 38 degree bed which I believe is a ideal.
Hope this helps
Philly