Should You Camber Your Plane Iron? | Hand Plane Foundations
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- Опубліковано 28 бер 2022
- Welcome to my Hand Plane Foundations course. In this course I'm going to introduce the different types of bench planes and discuss their setup and use, focusing on the planes you’ll need most as a new hand tool woodworker. I’ll cover sharpening the iron, setting up the cap iron, and troubleshooting and tuning the tool up to perform at its best. I’ll finish up by building a modern two tone cutting board from some beautiful North American hardwoods, completely by hand.
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Great video. And as to the “how much camber” question, it would be good for viewers to know that a bevel up Jack or smoother which many folks are buying today will require more camber to match what they would otherwise wish to have for a corresponding bevel down plane due to the nature of the bevel up blade presentation angle geometry……
Thanks Bob. If you ever get bored, you could search of flattening/grinding mirrors for some of the space telescopes. Makes me glad to be a woodworker. A little camber is definitely helpful.
Cheers Bob!
Tks for the video! I am beginner and i would like know How can i transform my Square corner to camber.
Pura vida Bob I have a question could made a video about how to get that camber angle for iron plane How to do it thanks again pura vida bod and guys
Thanks I had no idea about camber I thought it was only for scrub planes
I use rounded corners on smoothing planes. Have some trouble getting fine camber on some planes. Have been using a 4 and 26 as scrubs and camber is easy. My five I like to set up with a slightest of camber to use on edges and some surfacing, But quite often end up with too much. Using three grades of diamond stones. Looking forward to seeing how it is done and maintain in successive sharpening.
Thank you very much
Why blade plane not correct?
I use a camber for all my bench planes, except the one that I use for shooting. I use a camber on a try plane also, for me its easier to square an edge with a small camber on the iron, I shift the plane to the side so its not centered on the board; depending on which side of the edge I need to lower. I use that same try plane for flattening a surface too so the camber is needed there. Out of curiosity........ how much camber would you put on a foreplane/scrub with a 2 3/8 iron??? I use a 5 1/2 as a foreplane with about 8inch of a radius to the iron.
In my opinion using radius is a useless measurement as it doesn’t translate well to planes with different iron widths or different bed angles. Sure, one can do the math to figure it all out but it’s completely unnecessary.
When I establish camber for a fore plane, I color the back of the iron, project the iron below the sole of the plane the maximum depth I want that fore plane to cut (between 1/32” and 1/16” deep) and mark the edges of the iron where they intersect the sole of the plane. Those marks tell me how much to camber the iron and it makes no difference what the width of the blade is or the bed angle. Next Tuesday’s video will demonstrate the process.
@@BobRozaieskiFineWoodworking I know the curve doesnt need to be accurate on a roughing tool...... but for marking out the radius on the back of the iron I jus went with 8inch for some reason. Used a trammel on paper cut to the width of the iron to mark the curve, cut the curve on the paper then traced around it onto my iron. It works decent, but im starting to feel as if it's too much curve..... it cuts very deep; I can probably take nearly 3mm (1/8) in a pass if I wanted to. When set to take a normal shaving like the size you mentioned, it's not cutting very wide; maybe only an inch...... I think I need to take some of the curve out of the iron to give me more width. Feels like its takin a long time to cover a surface when I'm only able to use an inch width of iron. I feel I can improve on its efficiency. Il be taking your advice, thank you 😁
Bob the Bénédictin woodworker ;)