Plane blades
Plane blades
Subcategories
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Hock Tools
Hock has been at this since 1981, starting out making knives and doing the craftsfair gigs, which has got to be the toughest marketing work in the world. The staff and students at James Krenov's Fine Woodworking Program at the College of the Redwoods here in Fort Bragg convinced me to re-tool to make plane irons for them. Turns out woodworkers are very appreciative of better-quality tools and one blade led to another and another and it wasn't long before we were making only woodworking tools.
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Lie-Nielsen...
Lie-Nielsen Replacement Blades -
Veritas replacement blade
These planer blades are made of PM-V11, A2 or 01 special steel for best planing results. Our replacement planer blades are 2.4mm (3/32") thick, almost 20% thicker than standard. This thicker gauge significantly improves planing performance and gives a high quality result.
They are all 178mm (7") long and have a 30° edge angle and fit most older planers such as Stanley, Record, Memo, Jernbolaget, etc. in the respective planer size.
Due to the fact that this type of planer has been manufactured (steel planers) for more than 100 years, there are deviations that have occurred in dimensions over these years, so sometimes you have to modify your planer a little to make a replacement planer steel fit.
Planer blades for jointers are (1/8") thick with an edge angle of 25°. Grooves for adjustment are of course available that fit in the adjustment mechanism for these planers.
You can find the right planer by measuring its width, it is either 1-3/8" (low-angle, 60-1/2 type) or 1-5/8" (standard 9-1/2 type).
The British-made Record and Stanley have a side adjustment groove that is 5/8" and have three grooves for this adjustment. Planers without this adjustment feature should have 7/16 grooves Older American Stanley butt planers have 8 grooves. -
Molding Plane Iron Blanks
Molding Plane Iron Blanks
The 9 blades (O-1 Tool Steel, unhardened) offered are designed to
cover all the widths necessary to create a full set of Hollows and Rounds
(18 pairs). All are 8" (20.32cm) long, have a bit length of 2 3/16"
(5.55cm) and are tapered from 1/8" (3.17mm) to 1/16" (1.58mm) over the
total length of the blade. For information on how to choose the correct
blank size, please refer to Larry William's article: The Sizing and
Numbering of Hollow and Round Planes. For proper fitting techniques,
we recommend Larry's DVD: Making Traditional Side Escapement Planes.
These blanks can also be used to create an almost unlimited number of
profile irons. When choosing a blank, keep in mind that there is a strong
relationship between the iron width, wedge thickness and other variables
(presence of fence, etc). Irons cannot be returned once they have been
cut or heat treated.
To accommodate a wide variety of planes each of the bits are slightly
wider than one would typically expect for their tang width.
One should expect to cut or grind the bit to the appropriate width.
Late 19th or 20th Century molding planes tend to have irons thicker
than these 18th Century style irons. Using these irons as replacements
in later planes may require making a new wedge.
