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265480 Kirk Eppler <eppler.kirk@g...> 2018‑03‑16 Re: fettling a scraper plane: final installment
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:24 PM, Don Schwartz  wrote:

> On 2018-03-16 3:08 PM, scott grandstaff wrote:
>
>> Stand a card scraper nearly straight up. Push
>> It hogs, I mean hogs the wood.
>>  But take the same scraper and lean it forward 20 degrees. Now push.
>> It peels off dust!
>>  And you have anywhere inbetween, on the fly.
>>
>
>
> The weird thing about the 112 is that the further forward the inclination
> of the iron, the deeper and more aggressive the cut. Seems counterintuitive.
>
> Tilting the blade is two changes on a 12 & 112, angle and depth of cut.
If you angle too much, you need to retract the blade a bit.  The pivot is
above the cutting edge.

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