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Fine looking work.
Are you raising your panels with a plow plane or a router?
Thanks. I recently acquired a full set of blades for my old wooden plow plane. It doesn't have a nicker. I'm concerned about working cross grain and am planning to buy a scribing gauge.I prefer this little skew angle block rabbit plane, it's even got a neat nicker for the cross-grain
Do you feel that the skew angle blade cuts cleaner than a straight blade?I prefer this little skew angle block rabbit plane
It has bearing on another aspect more common in axe work, namely squaring up timbers or hewing. It seems to me there are a number of techniques incorporating various anglings of the cutting edge when doing the final hewing passes. For example, on the one hand the typical Japanese way, to hew straight on and parallel with the grain. Maybe even more extreme is the archaic Scandinavian method of glepphogging - or is it sletthogging, I forget which one alters direction - since in this way direction alters either side of the pith, (what are the insights actuating this method).While at the same time in a typical German fashion almost the complete opposite approach is used, that is to say, the cutting edge and striking action perpendicular to the dominant grain direction, or, cutting across the grain. Well, anyway the relation of the edge angle to the dominant grain direction being the relevant variable, we could ask why such disparate approaches. We have so, | so, / and so __ .Yes, the skewed angle, effectively lowering the bevel angle, makes a smoother cut when working across the grain.