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    Burnishing a 112 scraper plane blade

    I get very good results (IMHO) with no burr. The Lie-Nielsen site also says you get very good results without it, and they recommend sharpening at 45° without a hook. A2 steel is VERY hard to give a hook to at plane blade hardnesses (RC 60-62). Lie-Nielsen 112 blades are not as hard as their...
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    It's here...

    And the premium Japanese chisels. So they finally have a nice set of chisels. http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx ... at=51&ap=1
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    how do you treat your plane?

    Usually on shavings, otherwise A.
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    Rob Lee's new plough plane

    Neat! It seems that all those comments about the LV handles are having a measurable effect...they definitely look more curvy to me (at least the part that fits into the palm). :D :D :D I can't wait to try it out either!
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    How flat is flat?

    Thanks for the tip Joel, makes a lot of sense!
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    Japanese Saws vs. Western Saws

    Ditto. David's first two books probably had a greater influence on my woodworking than all other books I've read combined.
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    Japanese Saws vs. Western Saws

    Yes Denis, It's still on my list, but I'm doing a ton of carpentry work these days, and trying to set up a forge, so the saw will have to wait. Not to mention my speeding ticket I got on vacation... :evil:
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    Japanese Saws vs. Western Saws

    I have the Sun Child and the another dozuki by Gyokucho; they don't have the same teeth (Sun Child has combination teeth which help it rip more aggressively yet cut smoothly). I'm not sure about the one in the pic; it would surprise me if the teeth were rip, but I have no idea. At first I wasn't...
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    Ebay again.

    Hi Smudger, I'd say not quite...I think it's users who pay high prices for bog-standard planes that leads to inflation. A seller can ask what they wish for a plane, no one has to buy it.
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    Re-handling pigstickers

    Hi Denis, I'd go for the hornbeam too. I just drill a small pilot hole for the tang (big enough to fit the tip in), then put the blade in a vise, then heat the tang red and set the handle. The handle seems to melt on to the red tang. It might take 5 or 6 shots to get the handle on completely...
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    It's a JK, Derek of Oz smoother.....WIP

    Cuban mahogany for a plane eh? :tongue9: Makes ebony seem skimpish! Nice job so far, looking forward to the finished plane.
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    Is a scrub plane a good idea?

    Hi Paul, I just thought I'd make a comment that I almost made in my first post--please dont, take it as an argument; I just thought I'd throw it in for discussion. I tend to follow Henry Mercer, who defines a plane not by its length but mainly by the shape of the cutting edge. His method of...
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    Is a scrub plane a good idea?

    I agree with Tony, I use my scrub mostly for carpentry. On the other hand, I could never get along without my jack. The biggest problem I have with a scrub is that it can take huge chunks out of a board, and sometimes these chunks reach below the finished surface depth I'm aiming for. A Jack...
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    A GREAT gloat

    Very nice post Derek, And good to see Mr. Krenov hasn't lost his sense of humor. Thanks for sharing
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    I like my #45...

    Hey Denis, If you drop by Montreal you can always try out one of mine. :lol:
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    Baby Smoother

    Hmmmm, the last one didn't look laminated either...I think Philly is spending his nights chiseling out the waste but doesn't actually want to admit it. Eh Philly?
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    Planing without a crown using a #7

    Welcomt to the forum cwroy. David C. had a bunch of us on Wood Central try a littel experiment, and after taking 10 full-length shavings from a perfectly flat board, I came out with around 1.5 thou depression at each end (a few inches or so of leading and trailing edges came out rounded...
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    Philly's New Plane - with a difference...

    Nice score there Philly, A little piece of woodworking history that you can actually touch and use, although if it were mine I probably wouldn't be using it very often. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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    Bought a Combi - need a little advice - This is a Long Story

    I see Alf, Thanks, makes perfect sense now. Actually I was kind of thinking of my 55 (still rather new to me, but one missing depth stop on the tongue cutter made for some bonus cutters); I've never tried tongue and groove joints with my 50.
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    Bought a Combi - need a little advice - This is a Long Story

    Alf, Is the depth stop really necessary on the tongue blade? You can just use the depth stop on the plane instead. The real usefulness of the missing depth stop on the blade is when haggling the seller to lower the price.
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