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273611 scottg <scottg@s...> 2021‑05‑06 Re: Scrub planes
People are getting confused about what a scrub plane is.

  A regular smoother or jack can't take a very big radius. The width of 
the blade/chipbreaker only lets you use so much
These are just coarse set planes.
  A coarse set jack is more used in my shop than a true scrub by far. I 
use them constantly.

http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/homeplanes/jack2.jpg
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/homeplanes/wormscrub3.jpg

Scrubs are very narrow with no chipbreaker so you can grind a deeper 
radius. They hog chips faster than anything but they are not the easiest 
planes to control.
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/homeplanes/scrub1.jpg
yours scott

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