The Veritas Shooting Plane

[Derek Cohen (Perth Oz)]

As promised, once Rob and Co released their brand spanking new shooting plane, I have published a review of the plane for your entertainment and education

The website link is here: http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ToolReview ... Plane.html

Feel free to ask any questions.

Regards from Perth

Derek

 

[Nippychippy]

Nice review thinking about getting a shooting plane I was fitting oak architraves yesterday and just seems to be with oak the mitries are of at the heal and the toe tight in the middle do you just make a shooting board for the mitres

 

[Graham Orm]

Great review Derek, thanks for taking the time.

Just searched Ebay for a shooting plane and came up with this beauty! :mrgreen: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1943-WWII...508?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f24fe0f64

Most of us would aspire to just one of those, (You mention you have a LN already) will you keep both?

 

[bugbear]

Nice review Derek. *AND* you appear to have demonstrated fairly conclusively that there's more to blade quality than the steel composition.

BugBear

 

[Paul Chapman]

Interesting review, Derek. Thanks for posting.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Harbo]

Excellent review thanks.

Rod

 

[Nippychippy]

Hi guys am I being daft but I can't seem to find affordable shooting planes lie nelson at 430 just way to much for me till I win the lotto

Cheers for the help sorry if I am hijacking the post

 

[woodbrains]

Hello,

Excellent review Derek, thanks.

Regarding affordable shooting panes, the Veritas should retail for a fair amount less than the LN, if prices from the USA are anything to go by, but not enough to make it 'affordable'. There are none that are though, new. The best metal plane that won't break the bank would be a second hand Record T5, with, referencing the blade tests in the article here, a replacement LV, A2 or PM blade.

Mike.

 

[Nippychippy]

Thanks woodbrains will have a look for that

 

[Vann]

The LN blades began dulling after about 30 shavings, at which point they increasingly were required to take more passes to complete a full shaving – instead of cleanly slicing the end grain, they skipped and left untouched sections.

By contrast, the Veritas blades were still sharp at the end of 60 shavings, and could have gone on planing for much longer. Of the two blades, the A2 began to feel a little more difficult to push at about the 55 shaving mark, but continued to the end of its 60 without skipping a beat.

Interesting. I recall a thread a year or so ago, where mtr1 had problems with edge retention on a L-N A2 iron.

It seems that Lie-Nielsen are not doing something quite right - which is a pity as IMHO Lie-Nielsen tools are the best of the top three. Certainly their back-up was top-notch in mtr1's case.

Cheers, Vann.

 

[bugbear]

Hi guys am I being daft but I can't seem to find affordable shooting planes lie nelson at 430 just way to much for me till I win the lotto

Cheers for the help sorry if I am hijacking the post

For many purposes, a "normal" plane will work "well enough" - my personal favourite is a #6.

If you want the oh-so-desirable benefits of a skew blade, the cheapest way is a Philly mitre plane.

http://www.phillyplanes.co.uk/skew.html

BugBear

 

[Jacob]

Hi guys am I being daft but I can't seem to find affordable shooting planes lie nelson at 430 just way to much for me till I win the lotto

Cheers for the help sorry if I am hijacking the post

It's OK don't worry about it nobody really needs them anyway - they are just toys for the comfortably off!

 

[iNewbie]

Bit like a Sorby Pro-edge, eh?

Bit of Wet 'n' Dry 'll do for grinding. Freehand of course.

 

[Jacob]

Bit like a Sorby Pro-edge, eh?

Bit of Wet 'n' Dry 'll do for grinding. Freehand of course.

Hmm stretching it a bit! Sorby Proedge (or similar) is an extremely useful bit of kit and would get well used in most workshops.
These planes aren't and wouldn't.

 

[Paul Chapman]

These planes aren't and wouldn't.

Maybe not in your workshop, Jacob, but then you seem to spend all day on your computer rather than doing anything which would require a plane.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[PAC1]

I was pleased to see that Veritas are to produce a leftie version due out in October

 

[custard]

I wonder how long before LN respond with their own new edge steel?

 

[mark w]

Hello Derek, unless I missed it, would you tell me the maximum thickness (height) that the Veritas can plane when it is in the Stanley shooting board, how much of the blade is usable?

 

[cagenuts]

Hello Derek, unless I missed it, would you tell me the maximum thickness (height) that the Veritas can plane when it is in the Stanley shooting board, how much of the blade is usable?

Mark if Derek doesn't respond I have the shooter but not the board but I can measure from the sole up the blade and then if you have a chutebored you can measure that depth.

 

[mark w]

Cagenuts, that would be really helpful. How did you get the plane so soon, I`m still waiting for Uk dealers to stock it.