{"id":833,"date":"2010-07-18T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2013-04-19T23:23:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T04:23:40","slug":"working-with-the-veritas-scraping-plane-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/18\/working-with-the-veritas-scraping-plane-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with the Veritas scraping plane, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now for the blades.<\/strong> Veritas offers three choices:<\/strong> a 0.055″<\/strong> thick blade that is meant to be bowed,\u00a0a 0.125″<\/strong> (1\/8″) that is not bowed because of its thickness, and a 0.125″ (1\/8″) thick toothed blade. I find that the 0.055″ blade, when sharpened with a 45\u030a<\/span> bevel and burnished at 15\u030a<\/span>, as recommended, is too thin to fully avoid chatter on tough woods, even with a skewed stroke. I sharpen this blade at 90\u030a<\/span><\/strong> and burnish at about 7-8\u030a, <\/span>just like a card scraper. This avoids chatter and works well, but I would like the cutting action to be more aggressive. As for the 0.125″ blade, I feel it has the disadvantages of a thick, unbowed scraper blade: the tendencies to catch, dig in, and slice out of control.<\/p>\n

Here is what I now like best in the Veritas plane:<\/strong> Ron Hock\u2019s 0.094″ (3\/32″) blade<\/a>.<\/strong> I think it\u2019s just right! It can<\/em> bend in the Veritas plane<\/strong> just enough to take a slight bow<\/strong> and is thick enough to eliminate chatter. Preparing the blade with a clean edge, 45\u030a <\/span>bevel, 15\u030a<\/span> (off horizontal) burnishing, setting the angle as described in the previous post, and adjusting for a light cut, produces a nice cutting action and a beautiful surface on wildly figured, dense woods – just the kind of wood that you need this tool for.<\/p>\n

The photo below shows the Veritas 0.055″ blade on top and the Hock 0.094″ blade underneath.<\/p>\n

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I prefer to sharpen the blades with a straight, not cambered, edge<\/strong> because when the plane bows the blade, a sufficiently cambered\u00a0blade projection\u00a0is automatically produced. I\u2019ve tried sharpening with a cambered edge and have found that it is more difficult to file and stone the edge. Furthermore, it is more difficult to initially set a cambered-edged blade into the plane with a centered, symmetrical projection because it can rock against the bench surface. A straight-edge blade produces no doubt.<\/p>\n

In summary, I love the Veritas large scraping plane with a Hock blade.<\/strong> Hopefully, I will be able to upgrade the rear handle<\/a> soon, though for some reason the Veritas tote doesn’t bother me as much on the scraping plane as it does on their bevel-up bench planes.<\/p>\n

In the next post, I will describe an unconventional preparation<\/strong> for a second Hock blade in the arsenal which further expands the usefulness of this plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now for the blades. Veritas offers three choices: a 0.055″ thick blade that is meant to be bowed,\u00a0a 0.125″ (1\/8″) that is not bowed because of its thickness, and a 0.125″ (1\/8″) thick toothed blade. I find that the 0.055″ blade, when sharpened with a 45\u030a bevel and burnished at 15\u030a, as recommended, is too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-and-shop","tag-working-with-the-veritas-scraping-plane-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}