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Plumbing, it's a pipe reamer used to remove the burr from the inside of pipe after cutting.

Brent Beach never learned one can control the wear bevel on the flat face. Don't confuse his site with Steve Elliot's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ClNp_Eknw

That's a straw man, Jacob. I certainly didn't suggest pushing a cutting edge that far although the fore plane I sharpened in the video had planed a lot more than I normally would between sharpenings. Both those planes had spent two long days as demo planes at a show. What are you bringing up...

Jacob, You can't remove the wire edge without flattening the back, you just bend it back and forth. The wire edge is the indicator that tells you where you are on each grit but it has to be removed then recreated on each grit to use it as an indicator. The wear on the flat face is cumulative...

Sounds like traditional honing to me, Fraser. Just like Nicholson described in the 1830's: http://books.google.com/books?id=_XYOAA ... 22&f=false But then we had a bunch of people who couldn't figure it out reinvent the wheel and we got a lot of gimmicks like honing guides that just slow down...

From the outside, I find it frustrating British woodworkers generally don't have an appreciation of their wooden plane heritage. In the 18th Century, when British planes were made by a local plane maker rather than by some larger factory the planes were the best ever made. At least I believe...

Here's a Dutch one from 1596:

I think it's a photo you sent to Bill Tindall. It's of two A-2 irons, one TiN coated and the other not coated. I just went to look for it but I must be searching the wrong terms. If you want I can put it up and post it here.

Steve, The fine India is what Don uses as a coarse stone. I thought that was clear in my post. I showed the results of three passes on the coarse stone because I was talking about the ease of removing the wear on the flat face. The coarse abrasive signature of the fine India does make it easy to...

Actually Steve, you're the exception. I have a file on my computer where I keep a lot of the stuff you put up. You've changed some of what I believe but reinforced a lot more. I find your post in this thread very helpful and that it confirms much of what I believe. Frequent sharpening is the...

It's not quite "exactly the same," David. The goal of working on the flat face is to remove dubbing at the edge. The dubbing can be caused by dulling wear, out of flat honing medium or it can be self-inflected and intentional like with the ruler trick. Intentional dubbing has to be bigger than...

"- gives you any choice of pitch at the switch of a blade (even toothed blades at a modest extra cost)" Versatility over a very narrow range? Is every plane a smooth plane? The two workhorse bench planes are the fore plane and the trying plane. I don't know of a bevel up that works well as a...

The thread on the barkwindjammer sharpening is long and this is a bit of a topic change so I thought I'd start a different thread. First a couple quotes that spawned this post: It doesn't take any more effort. In fact, it takes less effort. If one takes care of their sharpening stones and...

Gary, I had no intention of "passing snide remarks." I can't imagine why British hand tool woodworkers would have any reason to study early American wooden planes. I also couldn't figure out under what circumstances a Nicholson plane would end up in a British boot sale or what ever. I do have...

Andy, Don't use that plane. It's by John Nicholson the son of Francis Nicholson who many believe is the first plane maker in America. It's quite collectible and pretty valuable.

Gary, I think we're talking about the same thing but using different hardness scales. As hardened before tempering O-1 steel will be around 65 on the Rockwell C scale and a file will be around 66 or 67 on the Rockwell C scale. A good hand saw will be about 50 on the Rockwell C scale. Here's a...

Argus, I sent a pm. Please e-mail me. Larry

Simon, I used to have a collection of references but have since changed computers and can't find it. One reference is from Peter Nicholson's Practical Carpentry, Joinery and Cabinetmaking: http://tinyurl.com/2g5rup8 File makers used to make what they called floats but these were essentially...

I'll call Thomas Lie-Nielsen today and see what's up. This is the first I've heard of this issue.