Glad Paul brought up the skew plane.   My favorite shooting plane is
actually a skew block plane (MF 07).  Obviously,  it is only suited for
small items,  but I love the surface left by the skewed please.   I've
thought of building a shooting board with a slope to get a skew effect from
a standard plane.   Does anyone out there use one?   I would think it would
still have some limitations on material size,  but then,  so does any plane
at some point.

Doc
On Sep 30, 2014 9:01 AM, "paul womack"  wrote:

> Here's a wooden, skew mitre plane;
>
> http://www.phillyplanes.co.u
k/skew.html
>
>  BugBear
>
> Chuck Taylor wrote:
>
>> Ron wrote:
>>
>>  anybody made one of these to use on your shooting board? Results?  I Am
>>> having a hard time pulling the trigger on a 400 plane purchase.
>>>
>>
>> A metal low-angle plane usually has a 12-degree bed angle plus a 25-degree
>> bevel on the iron, for a total cutting angle of 37 degrees. .
>>
>> A 12-degree bed angle would be impractical in wood. However, if you make
>> the bed angle 37 degrees and go with a bevel-down iron, then your cutting
>> angle is also 37 degrees. The cutting angle is what the wood sees; it
>> doesn't care about the bed angle.  A 37-degree bed angle would work fine
>> on a Krenov-style plane.
>>
>> Bevel angle on a bevel-down plane doesn't affect the cutting angle, but
>> it does affect the clearance angle. Clearance angle is bed angle minus
>> bevel angle, and needs to be at least 10 degrees. Keep the bevel angle on
>> the iron at 27 degrees or less and you should be fine.
>>
>> Whelan talks about American wooden miter planes as having bed angles of
>> 30-40 degrees.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chuck Taylor
>> north of Seattle
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