David C":1kb5tfx1 said:
Ali,
What do you glue your shim with please?
Do you not find that it interferes with the bedding of the blade in a bevel up plane, and the fit of the chipbreaker in bevel down plane?
David
Hi sir. I can't comment on the BU plane as I have never used one, but
I think your concern is correct BU planes.
I have a qiangsheng chipbreaker and it did not interfere. I also have
a clifton chipbreaker but haven't tried it on that one yet. Ok I just did
and it does interfere with the clifton chip breaker. Not sure if it would
affect performance as I was able to tightly screw the chipbreaker to the
plane iron. No movement. I don't like the Clifton chipbreaker The front piece
has a tendency to fall of and does not provide support at the cutting edge.
The qiangsheng, hock and lie nielsen chip breakers which are similar in design
AFAIK should have no problems with this shim trick as the gap between the chip
breaker and the plane iron where the shim is located is bigger than the shim. I
can't find my standard stanley chip breaker at the moment, but that one should
be ok too.
Took my feeler gauges to measure the gap at the location of the shim. There is
a gap of 0.3mm, 12thou I think that is. The shim I used is 0.15mm, 6 thou. I
checked holding the plane iron in fron of bright light and there was clear light
between the shim, a 0.1 feeler gauge slides easily between the gap. So no
interference here. Even if there were, you could remove a bit of metal from
the chip breaker to create that space.
I have placed the shim 3.5cm-4.5cm from the cutting edge, the shim is 1cm wide.
I do think this will not work for BU planes. The shim would raise the front of the blade
a bit, something like this I guess.
bigger picture:
http://i41.tinypic.com/23tffdc.jpg
It might decrease peformance.
I used gorilla glue. Just everything amateuristic.
Ali