{"id":5875,"date":"2019-07-31T00:02:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T04:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2019-07-30T22:34:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T02:34:03","slug":"rethinking-bed-angle-in-bevel-up-planes-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/31\/rethinking-bed-angle-in-bevel-up-planes-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking bed angle in bevel-up planes, part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"bevel-up<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A few more points on this topic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. If you had a BU jack plane with a 20\u00b0 bed, could you still use it on end grain<\/strong>? Sure. My Lie-Nielsen #9 “iron miter plane” has a bed of 20\u00b0 and it works wonderfully on end grain, and so does my L-N shoulder plane with a bed of 18\u00b0. Perhaps this is so because resistance is indeed determined solely by the attack angle and not by the sharpening angle per se. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. This is not about block planes<\/strong>, which, of course, also happen to be bevel-up. It is about BU smoothing planes and, to a lesser extent BU jack planes. Incidentally, I suspect one reason for the popularity of 12\u00b0-bed block planes over 20\u00b0-bed models is that the former are more compact and thus easier to manipulate with one hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. This is not<\/strong> just a theoretical discussion. BU planes with 20-22\u00b0 beds have been designed and are available from distinguished planemakers. Take a look at Karl Holtey’s #98 Smoother<\/a>. Philip Marcou<\/a> offers bevel-up smoothing and jack planes with 15\u00b0 and 20\u00b0 bed angles. [Drool, drool . . .]\u00a0Though not it’s intended to be used as a smoothing plane, I’ve experimented with setting up my L-N #9 (20\u00b0 bed) as a high-attack smoother. It works.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what’s the point<\/strong> of these four posts? It is simply this:<\/strong> a good addition to the Lee Valley and Lie-Nielsen product lines would be, at the least, the option of a bevel-up smoothing plane with a 20-22\u00b0 bed. (22\u00b0 would suit me just fine.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few more points on this topic: 1. If you had a BU jack plane with a 20\u00b0 bed, could you still use it on end grain? Sure. My Lie-Nielsen #9 “iron miter plane” has a bed of 20\u00b0 and it works wonderfully on end grain, and so does my L-N shoulder plane with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-5875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-and-shop","tag-bevel-up-plane-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5875"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5894,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions\/5894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}