I've got a cheap Record/Irwin Smoother that I've tuned up as much as I can (without spending loads of money ) but there's one thing I noticed... It takes sooooooooo long to adjust the throat!!!
There's so much trial and error involved, even if you measure the opening and adjust accordingly you've got to make sure it's squared up and just doing that can throw i right off.
So, I'd like to know if there's any way of converting a Bailey pattern to a Bedrock style, I can't really afford to buy a brand new plane to have set for thicker shavings and I often plane quite wild grained woods.
I was thinking maybe drilling into the body and inserting one of those cylindrical bolts (can't remember what they're called), there is a small hole on the frog that looks almost like they changed their mind during manufacture.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thankyou
Anthony
There's so much trial and error involved, even if you measure the opening and adjust accordingly you've got to make sure it's squared up and just doing that can throw i right off.
So, I'd like to know if there's any way of converting a Bailey pattern to a Bedrock style, I can't really afford to buy a brand new plane to have set for thicker shavings and I often plane quite wild grained woods.
I was thinking maybe drilling into the body and inserting one of those cylindrical bolts (can't remember what they're called), there is a small hole on the frog that looks almost like they changed their mind during manufacture.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thankyou
Anthony