Comments on: More shooting help https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2019/12/01/more-shooting-help/ inside the woodshop Sat, 27 Jun 2020 03:22:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Rob https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2019/12/01/more-shooting-help/#comment-389922 Wed, 04 Dec 2019 23:25:33 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=6087#comment-389922 Great, Steve! One of the other peculiarities of shooting is that only a small portion of the blade takes all the wear, unless you are using a ramped shooting board or stack the workpiece(s). That is one reason why I use a honing guide for shooting plane blades.

Rob

]]> By: Steve Hedstrom https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2019/12/01/more-shooting-help/#comment-389903 Wed, 04 Dec 2019 21:33:23 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=6087#comment-389903 I always appreciate the excellent advice in your blog posts Rob.
I use a #7 plane for jointing and shooting, while it worked well for jointing I struggled to get a cut while shooting with it. After reading your post I pulled the iron and sure enough right where the iron rides against the workpiece in my shoot board the edge was dull. A few minutes sharpening on my stones and it’s cutting well again. Thanks again!
Stephen

]]> By: Rob https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2019/12/01/more-shooting-help/#comment-389616 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:22:22 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=6087#comment-389616 Thanks, Thomas! I agree.
Rob

]]> By: Thomas Larson https://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2019/12/01/more-shooting-help/#comment-389600 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 21:51:14 +0000 http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/?p=6087#comment-389600 A third possibility is that the blade advancement knob was left in the position it was in when retracting the blade. It’s always important, for any kind of planing, to finish adjusting the blade adjusting the knob forward to take up any backlash. When this is not done, the force of the blade hitting the workpiece might push the blade back into the mouth.

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