rafezetter
Troll Hunter
Quite a while ago I bought a stanley #22 block plane and it came with the blade sharpened at a very obvious angle, maybe 20deg, I put this down to poor practises and reground it.
Today however a kind old gent was in my shop and we got chatting about tools and such and he mentioned he had an "old angled plane" - to which I replied it's probably a shooting plane and googled a pic for him, but he said no the blade hole was straight, it was just the blade that was angled.
So that's the second time I've come across what may be a deliberately angled plane blade for a straight mouth - does anyone know what would be the reason for this? (other than a sheer kawinkydink?)
Today however a kind old gent was in my shop and we got chatting about tools and such and he mentioned he had an "old angled plane" - to which I replied it's probably a shooting plane and googled a pic for him, but he said no the blade hole was straight, it was just the blade that was angled.
So that's the second time I've come across what may be a deliberately angled plane blade for a straight mouth - does anyone know what would be the reason for this? (other than a sheer kawinkydink?)