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Toothing your Plane Blade, show us your teeth!
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Author:  Frei [ Sun Jun 15, 2008 7:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Toothing your Plane Blade, show us your teeth!
Ok, what kind of file did you use, any sharpening tips for toothed plane blades, teeth per inch etc...? C'mon.... :mrgreen:
Author:  Frei [ Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Toothing your Plane Blade, show us your teeth!
What kind of file to tooth the blade? 8-)
Author:  Louis Freilicher [ Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Toothing your Plane Blade, show us your teeth!
No file will cut a hardened tool steel blade. If you want to tooth the blade with a file you need to do this while the steel is still in its soft (annealed) state.

For modifying and existing blade I would try a cutoff wheel in a dremel type tool. For hardened steel a grinding operation of some sort is the only answer.
Author:  Dave Stewart [ Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:46 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Toothing your Plane Blade, show us your teeth!
I've made several toothed blades for my (homemade) fingerplanes as Louis mentioned - mounted a dremel cutoff wheel in the drillpress, clamped the blade (horizontal) to a block & gently cut teeth in the sharpened blade. The 10mm blades have 8 teeth. They work great- unbeatable for high figure. (The blades themselves are made from old 8mm & 10mm wide files.)
Author:  Mattia Valente [ Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Toothing your Plane Blade, show us your teeth!
Just to be sure: you want to tooth the blade so you can follow your planing and/or cut difficult/curly wood, right? Not because of that antiquated (and wrong) idea that a toothed surface provides a better glue joint with anything other than epoxy?
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