New experiments

[Corneel]

This occupied a lot of my free time this year. Some new experiments to see if there is anything usefull in these chipbreaker thingies. I really hope Steve Elliott will get the article up on his website this weekend. Just to get some stoke going, here's a short videoclip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1_KN_v_w98

 

[jimi43]

I hope he does because I'm completely lost! :mrgreen:

In a sort of...totally intrigued sort of way mate! :wink:

Jimi

 

[Corneel]

To lift up a tiny corner of the curtain. This is the title:
Mechanics of chipbreakers and high cutting angles in woodworking handplanes.

 

[jimi43]

To lift up a tiny corner of the curtain. This is the title:
Mechanics of chipbreakers and high cutting angles in woodworking handplanes.

Good lord! An empirical machine to examine the theories of "that thread" no less!?

Jimi

 

[Corneel]

I'm not entirely sure what thread you mean, and I don't think I actually want to know, but I could imagine something.